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Managed Care
April 2002 |
More Than Just 'Chipping' Away at Problem of Uninsured Children CHIP (the Children's Health Insurance Program) continues to grow by leaps and bounds. About 4.6 million children in the U.S. received coverage through CHIP in fiscal year 2001. That's an increase of 38 percent from fiscal year 2000...   |
Managed Care
July 2002 |
Despite Deficits, States Avoid Cutting Medicaid, CHIP Rolls Although states are straining to close budget deficits, they have refrained from introducing stringent eligibility requirements for the CHIP and Medicaid programs. |
Managed Care
August 2000
Carey Lee Straetz |
Managing Medicaid Rolls Often State-by-State Affair Despite the strong economy, Medicaid enrollment may be slowly rising after a three-year decline. The challenges for serving this population are huge. |
Managed Care
August 2002 |
24 States Hope Pharmacy Plus Helps Medicaid Twenty-four states may gamble that providing a prescription drug program to low-income elderly who do not qualify for Medicaid could save them money in the long run. |
Managed Care
May 2000 |
Prescription Drug Benefit Gaining In Election Year Considered a dead issue just weeks ago, a prescription drug benefit in Medicare is suddenly thought to be the health care issue with the best chance for passage this year.... |
Managed Care
June 2005 |
Headlines On Deadline ... Many jobs available to young adults pay little... Prescription medications are getting more difficult to afford... |
Managed Care
November 2001 |
Drug Discount Cards May Not Be Full Answer A fair number of consumers have turned to discount prescription cards to help pay for medications but the value of these cards is in doubt... |
Managed Care
September 2006
John Carroll |
Revolution in Massachusetts May Spread to Other States Governors and legislators look to borrow whatever health policies they think might work well for their own constituencies. |
Managed Care
March 2000 |
Three-tier drug copayments in; closed formularies on way out? |
Managed Care
January 2004 |
Increasing drug copayments deter compliance Raising copayments in tiered prescription drug plans increases the likelihood that patients will stop taking prescribed medications, according to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. |
Managed Care
April 2005
John Carroll |
Can Managed Care Programs Rein in Medicaid's Runaway Budgets? Cadillac or Yugo care for the poor? Fee-for-service or managed care? The states have a lot on their minds as the Medicaid monster grows and grows. |
Managed Care
August 2002
Madeleine A. Estabrook |
Regulators Take More Interest In Role of PBMs in Health Care In a highly regulated industry such as health care, it is just a matter of time before every component of the industry comes under scrutiny and review. Pharmacy benefit managers are taking center stage now. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2010
Jennifer Schonberger |
The State of the States: Virginia's Governor Weighs In The Governor of Virginia on the fiscal state of Virginia. |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Single-source drugs get formulary preference Managed care organizations often place costly new drugs on a formulary's priciest tier, but products for which substitutes do not exist often are made available at lower copayment levels... |
Global Services
June 20, 2007 |
71,115 Job Cuts in May May was the second consecutive month when job cuts were more than those in the same period last year. Yet outsourcing only accounted for 300 of the over 70,000 lost jobs. |
Reason
October 2003
John Hood |
Why the States Are Broke Bloated governments, budget gaps, and Parkinson's laws |
Managed Care
August 2004
Martin Sipkoff |
Bad Tiered Formulary Designs Yield Poor Outcomes, High Cost Now that tiered formularies rule the land, what many suspected is being demonstrated: Compliance is suffering and so, too, are patients. |
Salon.com
October 21, 1999
Dena Bunis |
Uninsured children A new report says there are still too many kids without health coverage. |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Generic Pharmaceutical Conference Here are five in-demand meds and their generic counterparts. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
May 1, 2006
Huang, Pesile & Mozeson |
Medicare Part D: D for Doomed? New drug coverage plans cost more money and serve fewer patients than the government expected. What if things get worse? Here are two scenarios for disaster. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
The Bush Tax Cuts Are Sapping America's Strength The cost is nearly three times as much as the tab from September 11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and homeland security combined. |
Managed Care
March 2006 |
Study: No Need To Burden Consumers To Cut Drug Bill A study by Express Scripts shows that changing the prescription benefit copayments can reduce costs by encouraging more use of generic drugs. All without shifting costs to consumers. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010 |
Extending the Bush Tax Cuts The cost of extending the Bush tax cuts from 2010 to 2020. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Ryan Donmoyer |
Brinkmanship Over the Bush Tax Cuts High-income Americans could be the beneficiaries of a looming fight over whether to extend or let expire the Bush-era tax cuts. |
Managed Care
December 2000 |
How To Save Money on Prescriptions There are ways for low-income groups to avoid paying top dollar for prescriptions. Here's one way physicians can educate consumers... |
Salon.com
October 13, 2000 |
Say what? Five Bush debate statements bear closer inspection... |
Managed Care
February 2008 |
Medication Payment Proposal Lets Consumers Pay Annually Researchers suggest an annual license fee that would entitle consumers to a year's worth of medication for each prescription they take to manage chronic diseases, with a very small or nonexistent copayment for each monthly supply. |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Does Cost-Sharing For Drugs Lead To Adverse Events? A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that HMOs' increased use of cost-sharing to soften prescription drug expenses may have actually increase overall medical costs over the long term. |
Managed Care
March 2002
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Illinois's Medicare Drug Program Called 1st Stab at National Reform The Illinois demonstration program gives the state permission to use federal and state Medicaid dollars to provide prescription drug coverage for 365,000 low-income, elderly Medicare beneficiaries... |
