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Managed Care November 2003 Patrick Mullen	Physician Executives Need Not Fly Blind Kathleen Montgomery is in the forefront of efforts to define the unique domain of doctors who become managers. One thing she knows for sure: Trustworthiness is everything.
Managed Care November 2003 Jaan Sidorov	Case Study of a Failed Merger of Hospital Systems What went wrong between Penn State and Geisinger, and what lessons should be learned?
Managed Care November 2003	Clinical, Financial Woes Seen For Those Who Switch Plans Patients who change health plans may face adverse clinical and financial effects as a result, according to a new study.
Managed Care November 2003	Calif. Businesses Vow To Fight Coverage Law A new law that makes employers extend health benefits to about a million uninsured Californians will be watched carefully. Opponents of the law, signed by Gov. Gray Davis two days before the recall vote that ousted him, vow to challenge it in the courts.
Managed Care November 2003	Study Says PPOs Don't Mix Well With Medicare Despite the will and wishes of many members of Congress, Medicare and preferred-provider organizations will not mix well, Mathematica Policy Research warns in a recent report.
Managed Care November 2003 Michael S. Victoroff	Breaking the Seal For Sake of Safety A program to reduce medical errors promised providers that confidentiality would be protected. Then came a problem demanding immediate attention, where confidentiality conflicted with patient safety.
Managed Care November 2003	Malpractice protection efforts seem to come up short Medical malpractice insurance premiums continue to rise, even as some states place caps on non-economic damages, according to a survey by Weiss Ratings.
Managed Care November 2003	States exempt psychiatric drugs in some Medicaid programs While states are implementing broad policies to control Medicaid costs, outpatient prescription psychiatric drugs are falling into newly created exemptions, according to a recent survey conducted by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
Managed Care November 2003 Thomas Morrow	Making Sense of Antisense and Interference Treatments that interfere with protein synthesis at the cellular level will soon be debated in medical policy committee meetings.
Insurance & Technology November 25, 2003 Greg MacSweeney	Calif. BC Moves to E-Pay/EOB Blue Cross of California and Bank of America have co-developed a system that expedites the delivery of both payments and paperwork to healthcare providers via the Internet.
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