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Managed Care December 2002	Providers turn to fee-for-service charges to make up revenue lost under capitation If there's any doubt whether capitation has left a bit of a sour taste in the mouths of physicians and hospitals, a survey issued earlier this year would seem to confirm it.
Managed Care December 2002	Generic Prilosec... Ready or not, here it comes A consortium of manufacturers has received FDA approval to launch a generic version of the huge-selling proton-pump inhibitor Prilosec (omeprazole). The launch is expected by the end of the year. How will MCO drug formularies react? Watch this space.
Managed Care December 2002 Fox et al.	Modified HIPAA Privacy Rule Affects Research, Marketing, Security A modified rule allows the use and disclosure of "limited data sets" of personal health information for research, health care operations, or public health activities. These sets do not include direct identifiers, such as name, address, or Social Security number.
Managed Care December 2002 Joyce Ochs	Providers, Plans Misinformed About Vendor Software Capability Software vendors are not affected by HIPAA, although their customers are. Jeffrey Fusile, the partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers who heads the HIPAA Advisory Services, claims that "vendors and clearinghouses have misled people to a fault."
Managed Care December 2002	M+C meltdown hinders access to medications The fact that health plans are abandoning Medicare+Choice at a slower rate than in previous years doesn't mask the fact that the exodus of plans only exacerbates the problem of lack of pharmaceutical coverage for the elderly.
CIO January 1, 2003 Alison Bass	Big Gene Machine Five years ago, Eugene Chan, then 24, was giving up a promising medical career for the capricious future of a biotech startup. In early 2003, Chan's now 45-employee company, US Genomics, will begin selling the GeneEngine, a device that can analyze 10 million base pairs of DNA a day.
Wired January 2003 Richard Martin	Testing the First AIDS Vaccine Medical establishment, government, and Genentech be damned -- Don Francis has never stopped believing. Now he's about to finish testing the first human AIDS vaccine.
Wired January 2003 Charles C. Mann	The First Cloning Superpower Inside China's race to become the clone capital of the world.
Bio-IT World December 10, 2002 Hillel Alpert	Bio-IT Shines Bright in Israel Companies such as Quark and Pharmos are still flourishing as other industries decline in this country torn by conflict.
Bio-IT World December 10, 2002 Arielle Emmett	Locus Focus Cheminformatics company Locus Discovery is a technology darling and an entrepreneur's dream, but it faces a dilemma over how much of its proprietary drug discovery software and data to reveal.
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