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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.
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Managed Care May 2006 John Carroll	Medicare Debates Fairness of Pay For Primary Care and Specialists A growing controversy in MedPAC and in physician organizations could spill over into how all health plans compensate doctors.
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Managed Care July 2005 Martin Sipkoff	Is Pay for Performance Part of the Cure or the Problem? Paying for performance promises improved quality, reduced cost, and higher income for doctors. So why are some of them worried?
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BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 James Warren	Commentary: General Practitioners Need to Make More Money These doctors are grossly underpaid compared with specialists. A federal panel wants to reduce the discrepancy.
Managed Care August 2006 John Carroll	Everyone Uses E-mail Now (Except Doctors and Patients) The doctors in GreenField Health's primary care network learned years ago that e-mail could often satisfy a regular patient's need for medical advice. Here's how the process works today, who pays for it, and when and why it makes sense.
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BusinessWeek April 23, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened.
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Managed Care October 2002 Joyce Ochs	Decision Support Made Practical Making all the necessary information easily accessible is the motivation behind today's decision-support products. Most of them are called clinical information systems or primary care information systems and are designed for practicing physicians.
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Managed Care August 2001	GAO: Consultants Point Docs Toward Federal Law Violations The General Accounting Office has found that some health care consultants have been advising physicians to do things that conflict with federal laws and that may be unethical...
Managed Care May 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Will Providers Seek New Contracts As Consumer-Directed Plans Grow? Although plans are not restructuring fee schedules in consumer-directed health plans, providers think their agreements need fine-tuning.
Managed Care June 2002 John Carroll	States May Become Battleground In Push for Collective Bargaining Physicians at a local Texas hospital gained certification as a bargaining unit, and approached a managed care company to negotiate pay, but the effort failed. A new bill would allow physicians to ease toward collective bargaining nationwide.
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