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Managed Care February 2008 Martin Sipkoff	Why Is It So Tough to Deliver On E-Prescribing's Promise? The push to mandate this electronic tool is increasing in intensity, but dealing with costs and coming up with standards remain obstacles
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Managed Care June 2007	Docs Don't Exploit Electronic Prescribing While physicians were positive about the basic features of e-prescribing, products often lacked advanced features, or if they had them, physicians often did not use them because of implementation hurdles or their perceptions that the features did not add value.
Managed Care June 2004 Tony Berberabe	Welcome to the Brave, New (Electronic) World, Doctor WellPoint is providing free handheld or even desktop computers in an effort toward minimizing medication errors. Will docs finally abandon pen and pad?
Managed Care October 2004 Tony Schueth	Formulary Standards Key To E-Prescribing Success Electronic prescribing needs standardization before it's adopted by the masses. Start with the format of formulary databases.
Managed Care February 2002 Joyce Ochs	E-Prescribing Gets More Enticing Physicians today are writing prescriptions for patients on palm-held devices that seem eerily akin to medical practice on the Starship Enterprise...
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2005 Jill Wechsler	Washington Report: The e-Bandwagon The federal government is driving e-Rx adoption by establishing standards that Medicare drug plans will have to adopt by 2009, and HHS officials are pushing to make this happen much earlier.
Managed Care July 2000 John Carroll	Physicians Reconsider Taking On Pharmacy Risk They've been burned here in the past, but physicians - and the HMOs that they contract with - may have learned some lessons.
Insurance & Technology September 16, 2005 Phil Britt	Ounce of Prevention Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is providing system physicians with the ability to prescribe medicines electronically, which should improve safety and efficiency.
Managed Care March 2008 John Carroll	Should Plans Pay Physicians To Switch Patients to Generics? The AMA calls it a kickback, but the industry sees it as just good practice to give doctors an incentive to get patients on equivalent generics
Managed Care June 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Re-Emergence of the Primary Care Physician A new model of care developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians places primary care physicians back at the center of care delivery.
Managed Care December 2003	Electronic prescribing has no effect on formulary compliance A retrospective analysis of claims data from Aetna indicates that systems that allow physicians to enter prescriptions electronically on a handheld device that also provides drug information and formulary status have no significant effect on compliance with formularies and utilization of generics.
Managed Care November 2006	Primed to Take on Challenges to PBM's This CMO of a pharmacy benefits manager wrestles with some of insurance's most taxing issues. Price, of course. And here come biologics!
Insurance & Technology July 10, 2008 Nathan Conz	Highmark Funds EHR Adoption Having recognized the quality of care improvement opportunities certain technologies can bring to provider offices, Highmark established a program that will provide financial assistance to member physicians who implement electronic health records or e-prescribing technology.
Insurance & Technology October 12, 2005 Lisa Valentine	Mission: Integration The CIO of the largest publicly traded commercial health benefits company in the U.S. shares his enterprise application integration strategy that has enabled WellPoint to reduce operating costs and integrate acquisitions quickly.
Managed Care July 2001 Harry L. Leider	HMOs Need To Share Gains of DM Programs Physicians are more likely to buy in if they see better outcomes -- and financial rewards that go with them...
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2005 Erik Felker	Elephant or Specialist? The Bush Administration has put in place the groundwork for new market forces that will forever change how pharmaceuticals are commercialized. Although the long-term impact of this change is not known, unprepared companies are at a serious disadvantage.
Managed Care May 2007 Lola Butcher	Massive Databases Under Construction Insurers and employers are busily compiling databases to control costs and improve care, but physicians are laying claim to the data.
Managed Care May 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Will Pay for Performance Programs Introduce a New Set of Problems? Paying incentives to physicians to practice evidence-based medicine appears to be an idea whose time has come. Such programs -- even if successful -- may create a new set of problems.
Managed Care July 2005 Stanley Hochberg	Insurers Can No Longer Afford Not To Share Some Data Pay-for-performance programs imply improved patient care, but are frustrated by fragmented data collection and reporting systems.
Managed Care May 2003	Program Rewards Physicians For Delivering High-Quality Care Bonuses for delivering high quality care will be the focus of a three-market program spearheaded by the National Committee for Quality Assurance and supported by a coalition of physicians, health plans, large employers, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Managed Care May 2005	Implementing Medicare Part D Could Get Ugly This expert who hopes to help everybody adjust, nevertheless expects big headaches come Jan. 1, 2006. However, e-prescribing could make the drug plan work.
Managed Care December 2001 MargaretAnn Cross	Increased Pressures Change P&T Committee Makeup Formulary committees once were stocked with academics and administrators. Today, primary care physicians, specialists, and retail pharmacists play a bigger role, and tomorrow's membership will be even more diverse...
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Managed Care September 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Specialty Pharmacy Grows As Cost-Control Option As the population ages, specialty pharmacy is becoming a unique, profitable, and invaluable delivery system. Plans are increasingly turning to specialty pharmacies to provide the expertise they lack.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2005 Jill Wechsler	Washington Report: "D" Is for Data It is critical for Medicare to address important questions on drug safety and utilization, and about how prescribing decisions affect health outcomes and costs.
Managed Care August 2001	In Calif., Bonuses Based on Quality, Not Cost Savings Blue Cross of California has decided to move away from the traditional managed care incentive of rewarding physicians for controlling medical costs, and instead will implement a program in which physicians receive bonuses for quality of care and patient satisfaction...
Managed Care February 2001 T. Jeffrey White	Making Pharmacoeconomics In Formulary Development a Reality Despite what might be commonly believed, pharmacoeconomics is not a widely used tool for formulary development. Here's a model to follow...
Managed Care June 2007 MargaretAnn Cross	What the Primary Care Physician Shortage Means for Health Plans Insurers fear rising costs and poorer outcomes if members are less able to get appointments with family physicians and general internists.
Managed Care June 2001 Frank Diamond	HMO/Physician Strain Creates Invisible Costs Perhaps goodwill is too much to ask for. However, peaceful coexistence can certainly help all players reach their mutual goal -- a smooth relationship that helps to get the job done...
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Managed Care June 2005	PBMs Get Thumbs up From Satisfied Customers Pharmacy benefit managers that educate physicians on the safety and efficacy of generic drugs or provide them with generic drug samples to increase the use of generics get higher satisfaction ratings than those that don't.
Managed Care August 2006	Put Away That Carrot and Stick Researchers interviewed practice managers about how financial incentives are implemented in physician practices and the attitudes and perceptions they had toward P4P programs.
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Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Musacchio & Hunkler	More Than a Game of Keep Away The Prescribing Data Restriction Program takes effect in July. The AMA explains how individual doctors can keep their prescribing habits safe from reps, and how pharma can keep using the anonymous data -- if the industry polices itself.
Managed Care December 2005 Ricardo Guggenheim	Putting EBM To Work (Easier Said Than Done) Through widespread implementation of evidence-based medicine, the United States has its best chance of erasing the variations in care that currently extract such huge costs -- both human and financial -- from the health care system.
Managed Care October 2007 John Carroll	Early Tiered Networks Encounter Many Obstacles From dodgy data to uncooperative doctors, difficulties confront health plans that are trying to stratify providers by cost and quality.
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Managed Care September 1999	AMA, Federal Government Fret More About Online Prescribing and Pharmacy The AMA has come out with its strongest condemnation of online prescribing, recommending that action be taken against physicians who prescribe based solely on a patient's answers to an online questionnaire....
Managed Care March 2005	Physicians, Plan at Odds Over Autoworker Coverage The Michigan State Medical Society and the Michigan Osteopathic Association are suing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan after the health insurer cut 500 doctors from its provider network. They allege the insurer is trying to strong-arm them into reducing physician fees.
Managed Care April 2000 Tim Olsen	Physician, Tarnish Not Thine Image Doctors who use the news media to criticize others, rather than initiate a constructive dialog about difficult issues such as antibiotic resistance, help erode the profession's influence.