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Managed Care June 2002	Calif. Blues Plan Says No Tiers For Hospitals Blue Cross of California has abandoned its plan to separate hospitals by copayment tiers.
InternetNews June 27, 2006 Michael Hickins	Hospital, HMO Ratings 'Open' to Public New York State adopts online scorecards allowing employers and consumers to review local hospitals and HMOs.
Managed Care December 2006 MargaretAnn Cross	Confronting The Medicare Cost Shift Plans are increasingly concerned about the degree to which providers overcharge them to make up for losses from government programs.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices.
Managed Care January 2002	Employers struggle to preserve pharmacy benefit In an effort to protect the pharmacy benefit for employees, companies are using a variety of techniques to manage expenditures...
Managed Care October 2003 Ed Silverman	Tough Negotiations in Store Between Plans and Hospitals Fallout from the Medicare outlier-payment scandal is likely to force hospitals to try to replace that revenue. Health plans, prepare to negotiate!
Managed Care March 2004	Hospitals Retain Bargaining Edge In Contract Talks Contract negotiations between health plans and providers, primarily hospitals, were mild in 2002 and 2003, compared to how they played out in 2000 and 2001.
Managed Care March 2002	6 Large California Plans Link Doc Bonuses, Quality In what's being touted as an unprecedented effort, doctors and hospitals in California will be rewarded with bonuses of at least 5 percent for quality under a common set of standards adopted by six HMOs...
Managed Care April 2002	Where Employers, Employees Don't See Eye to Eye Hewitt Associates found key differences in employers' and employees' views of health coverage...
Managed Care July 2004	CalPERS Takes Tough Stand In Giving 38 Hospitals the Boot The move is expected to cut spending for the nation's third-largest purchaser of health care by $36 million in 2005, then save CalPERS about $50 million annually beginning in 2006.
Managed Care September 2003	Blue Cross of Calif. Steers Patients Toward Best Hospitals for CABG California seems to be the place where health plans have decided to crack down on hospital costs by spurring better outcomes.
Managed Care July 2004	Premium Hikes Slow As Plans Seek Members The opening murmurs in negotiations between health plans and large employers have been heard. Insurers are expected to seek an average 13.7 percent hike in premiums in 2005, according to a survey of 160 large employers.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	Health Care: The Patient Will Live, But... Employers and consumers will continue to get hammered by rising premiums, but health-care costs will rise a bit more slowly, which is good news for insurers.
BusinessWeek May 6, 2010 David Olmos	Data Mining Helps Hospitals Pry Fees from Patients Billing software companies are helping hospitals identify patients with enough assets to cover their bills but who may need help figuring out to do it.
The Motley Fool February 21, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Triad Hospitals Still Ailing Better days could be ahead for Triad, but they're not here yet. Here's where investing gets tricky.
Managed Care July 2002 Frank Diamond	Premium Hikes: No Cause for Celebration Lost market share and further erosion of public trust will be the long-term by-products of this short-term solution.
InternetNews June 14, 2010	Lax Data Security Results in Heavy Fines Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future.
Managed Care January 2007	Headlines on Deadline ... State budgets got an unexpected gift last year... Mortality rates for hospitals ranked high... It looks likely that Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will run for president... etc.
Nursing Management April 2009 Sharon H. Pappas	Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome.
Managed Care November 2007 Lola Butcher	Blues Build on CMS Program To Boost Hospital Quality The insurer throws support behind a pay-for-performance program that promises "stunning" advances in cost-effectiveness.
Managed Care November 2001	Hospitals scramble for cutting-edge personnel Aging baby boomers, fewer people choosing the medical field, and early retirements are all helping to shift hospital demand from primary care physicians to specialists, pharmacists and nurses...
The Motley Fool May 12, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Health Care's Unique Risk Select Medical is just the latest to suffer from regulatory changes.
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Hunting For Hospitals That Measure Up New Web sites can help you become an educated health-care consumer
Managed Care February 2001	Biz Group Warns Hospitals To Move Quickly on Quality Value-based purchasing, a concept that generates lofty discussion but is not always practiced by employers, took a leap forward with the endorsement of a bloc of some of the nation's largest companies...
Garden Gate	Mulching With Petunias Learn how to shield next year's perennials with last years annuals from the videos in this article.
Inc. September 2007 Cara Cannella	How I Did It: Todd Johnson, President and CEO, Hospital Partners of America Cost pressures may be straining health care providers, but there is money in the hospital business.
The Motley Fool April 8, 2011 Yael Grauer	Medtronic to Combine Cardiac and Vascular Sales Forces What does Medtronic's new sales strategy mean?
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Arlene Weintraub	A Remedy For Malpractice Malaise Hospitals are offering free coverage to recruit doctors from private practice
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006	Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities.
Managed Care May 2005 Frank Diamond	Hospitals May See Plans as Their New Confidant Not only can health plans pay for performance, they can offer a mechanism for confidential discussions of mistakes.
Managed Care November 2005 Ed Silverman	How Many More Quarters of Profits on the Way? The current underwriting cycle for health insurance is long in the tooth, but experts still see profitability ahead.
Managed Care September 2005 Ed Silverman	No Easy Fit For Specialty Hospitals Insurers worry that specialty hospitals will ultimately increase costs at nearby community hospitals
Managed Care June 2003 Maureen Glabman	Managed Care Makes It Tough For Some Hospitals To Stay Afloat True, there are other reasons the facilities have closed, but insurers' payment rates stand out. Is it better that some are history?
Managed Care June 2004	Providers Retain Upper Hand Over Health Plans Hospitals in recent years have been successful in getting higher rates, decreasing their exposure to risk and obtaining other advantageous contract provisions from health plans, according to a new study.
BusinessWeek January 7, 2010 Catherine Arnst	Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs - and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists.
BusinessWeek September 9, 2010 Bruce Einhorn	In Asia, Public Health Care Gets Less Public Health-care policymakers in Asia are encouraging more affluent Asians to use private hospitals and their own funds.
CFO January 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Operating Room Rising hospital costs, a plague to most companies, have helped some health-care CFOs nurse profits back to health.
Managed Care April 2007	Consumers Upset By High Cost of Administration When it comes to health care administrations, there is a wide gap between what executives of hospitals and insurance companies believe it costs and what consumers believe.
Managed Care February 2001	Employers more willing to pass benefit costs along Facing significant increases in health-benefit costs, employers appear less willing to bite the bullet than in the past -- and are passing many of those increases on to workers...
Managed Care June 2001 Jack McCain	Leapfrog Group Actions Will Be Felt Throughout the Health Care System Thanks to a Business Roundtable-sponsored group calling for better outcomes at hospitals, health plans' lobbying efforts may pay off...
BusinessWeek October 1, 2009 Sasseen & Arnst	Why Business Fears the Public Option Executives contend that it will lead health-care providers to charge patients in private plans higher rates.
Managed Care May 2006	Patients Want Better Quality so Long as They Don't Have to Pay for it While about half of adults believe that there are fair and reliable ways to assess health care quality, only 19 percent think it would be justifiable for patients to pay more when treated by medical groups or hospitals that provide better care.
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Specialty Hospitals' Success Sows Seeds of Lobbying Fight Some in government question the propriety of physicians steering patients into facilities that the doctors partly own.
Fast Company September 2006 Paul Lukas	Halcyon Hospitals In most respects, the Dream Hospital of 1953 barely hinted at future advances. But the biggest challenge hospitals may face is that medical advances could render entire wards -- and profit centers -- obsolete.
Managed Care December 2006	The Formulary Files Four core strategies are used to manage outpatient specialty pharmacy costs.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Mullaney & Weintraub	The Digital Hospital Information technology saves lives and money at one medical center, perhaps becoming the future of health care.
Fast Company April 2012 Christina Chaey	Stevi Riel Provides Partnerships With Hospitals To Find Affordable Help For Patients This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Stevi Riel takes what physicians are too busy to do, and partners with hospitals to find affordable prescription solutions for underinsured patients.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals.
Managed Care February 2006 MargaretAnn Cross	Pregnancy+Birth=$$$ With 9% of hospital charges attributable to pregnancy, delivery, and neonatal care, there is considerable opportunity for savings.