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Managed Care December 2006	A Conversation With Michael L. Millenson: Health Care Reform Movement Has Only Scratched Surface Michael L. Millenson has long been frustrated by the pace of change says that - ready or not - health care reform is finally on the way.
Managed Care March 2005	'This Country Cannot Continue With the System We Now Have' As a vice president of Pfizer Health Solutions, a major disease management company, John Sory knows how difficult it is to bring systematic care to the chronically ill. He discusses Pfizer's work with Florida's Medicaid program.
Managed Care April 2006 Patrick Mullen	A Conversation with Paul Fronstin, PhD: Current Crop of Consumer-Directed Plans More 'Lite' Than 'Heavy' Paul Fronstin, a senior research associate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute, speaks about Medicare, health benefit trends, and managed care.
Managed Care June 2007	A Conversation with Jonathan Weiner, DrPH: Mixing Population-Based Care With Market Controls The United States' health care system needs consumer and market controls to succeed, but it can't rely on only those two factors.
Managed Care September 2006	We Can't Avoid Tough Decisions Forever Former Reagan administration official Jeanne Scott is working to change how health information is processed. However, that's only part of the solution.
Managed Care November 2005 Patrick Mullen	This Biologics Industry Spokesman Knows That Health Plans Can Only be Won Over by the Financial Argument. Biotech's focus is expanding from products that treat relatively rare diseases to treatments for conditions that affect much larger populations, including various cancers, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma because of health plan costs.
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 May 2006	They Wrote the Book on Fixing the System How could the largely private U.S. health care system, characterized by arguably more competition than any other health care system in the world, be performing so poorly?
Managed Care November 2000 Patrick Mullen	Don't be fooled Don't be fooled, warns noted health care economist J.D. Kleinke: High-quality care costs more, not less. The Internet will increase demand for the best care...
Managed Care September 2004	O'Kane Gives the OK To Focus More on Providers The head of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, Margaret E. O'Kane, says health plans want to encourage physicians in the never-ending quest for quality.
Managed Care April 2007	A Conversation With Emad Rizk, MD: Disease Management Beyond the Call Center The man who heads McKesson Health Solutions, the third largest disease management program in the country, says it's time to roll out a new model.
Managed Care January 2002 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Peter Lee The head of the Pacific Business Group on Health says the coming trend in care will be patients making informed decisions before they get sick...
Managed Care May 2001 Patrick Mullen	Jeff Goldsmith Deny the increasing importance of the Internet at your peril, says the noted health care futurist. Faster connections, smarter applications are needed...
Managed Care June 2002	'We Changed The Way Kaiser Makes Decisions, Views Itself' Lawrence's tenure as Kaiser CEO came at a tumultuous time for the country's largest classic HMO. An interview with David M. Lawrence.
Managed Care July 2001 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Lucien L. Leape, M.D. The way to reduce errors in health care is to change systems, says this Harvard educator. Punishment encourages people to cover up...
Managed Care June 2005	Giving More Than a Nod To the Wave of the Future An interview with the director of regional informatics programs through the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health and Accenture professor of biomedical informatics about how his love of medicine and fascination with technology continue to drive his work in the field.
Managed Care January 2006	Is Managed Consumerism the 'Third Way'? The health care economist says that consumers ought to share in the savings from making the right choices. Insurers, providers, and hospitals should make sure that options exist.
Managed Care September 2000	Interview: Peter Boland Will the electronic revolution overthrow managed care? Not necessarily, but it may help define a new role for MCOs not far in the future...
Managed Care December 2000 Patrick Mullen	Employer Demands Will Change Healthcare The CEO of a large Florida employer coalition insists that the information that companies are beginning to demand will force the industry to change...
Managed Care December 2001	Disease Management Outsourcing As DM shifts its focus to outcomes-based care, the EVP of American Healthways suggests that larger health plans consider outsourcing care of chronic patients.
Managed Care July 2000	Lee N. Newcomer joins Vivius The former senior VP for health policy at UnitedHealth Group joins a company that aims to shift power from HMOs to patients and physicians.
Managed Care August 2000 David Classen, M.D.	He Puts Patient Safety First By Bucking Conventional Wisdom This versatile physician holds the view that the Institute of Medicine actually understated the number of medical errors. He also doubts that the usual prescriptions for reducing errors will be effective.
Managed Care May 2004	'Random Gifts of Information' Should Never be Ignored The CMO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is hopeful that the goal of true population management is near.
Managed Care October 2000 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Steven B. Epstein, J.D. This pioneering medical legal authority says health plans and physicians should stop fighting over scraps the government throws them...
Managed Care July 2004 Patrick Mullen	Matthew Holt: Internet Pundit Thrives on the Biggest Issues Integrated health care systems are seizing the momentum in care coordination from HMOs, says the author of the well-read Internet Healthcare Blog.
Managed Care April 2000	Advocate says: Physicians, Hospitals To Lose Clout And Numbers The colorful president of the People's Medical Society foresees fewer hospitals, more DM, "teledocs," and an end to legislation by body part.
Managed Care May 2003	Employer Coalition Leaps at Challenge of Grappling With Misaligned Incentives The executive director of the Leapfrog Group says that the organization pleads guilty to trying to create 'aspirational' standards for health care.
Managed Care August 2007 Patrick Mullen	Bringing Guidelines into the Real World An interview with Jim Schibanoff, editor-in-chief of Milliman Care Guidelines, regarding the current state of the art technology behind guidelines, and how their use might evolve over the next several years.
Managed Care February 2001 Patrick Mullen	A Conversation with Rodney G. Hood, M.D. Unintentional bias can be just as damaging as the overt brand, according to the president of the National Medical Association...
Managed Care March 2000	Tracking the Tracker of Health Care's Trends The president of the Medical Group Management Association encourages changes that would bring physician practice and medical record-keeping in step with the times, and decries the lack of medical standards across plans.
Managed Care July 2003 Patrick Mullen	Adviser to Presidents Considers Politics and Reform Change comes slowly, says this public policy expert whose work over the last two decades has helped frame the health care debate. She'd like to see greater efforts in the public and private sectors to reward quality.
Managed Care December 2002 Patrick Mullen	Placing Faith in Technology To Improve Members' Choices Not many companies' organizational charts list a 'chief innovation officer.' At Humana, it brings visibility to a high-tech strategy for reducing care fragmentation.
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!
Managed Care February 2004	Not-for-Profit Advocate Calls for Managerial Rigor Boards and managers need to perform better for this sector to continue offering the best care to those who might otherwise fall through the cracks.
Managed Care August 2001 Patrick Mullen	The Expanding Role of Pharmacists Lobbying in Washington, monitoring state legislation and generally looking out for the interests of pharmacy programs run by health care plans and pharmacy benefit managers, Judith Cahill leads the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy at an exciting, critical time...
Managed Care September 2001	Personal Freedom Called Key to Coverage Tom Miller, the director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, says choice matters more than antiquated systems...
Managed Care March 2002 Patrick Mullen	He Wants AdvancePCS to Manage More Than Drugs The CMO of the nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager says that the company's mission has broadened. One new area of focus: worker productivity...
Managed Care October 2007	Lessons From the Front: A Conversation with William Winkenwerder Jr., MD, MBA The former assistant secretary of defense for health affairs says that much that he learned might be applicable to the commercial sector.
Managed Care August 2002	Interview: Richard D. Lamm The former three-time governor of Colorado, who is a senior citizen, says that older Americans need to make sacrifices for the generations to come.
Managed Care May 2002 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Thomas Scilly In a candid, wide-ranging interview, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator counsels patience in solving the myriad problems of health care. A fix could take 20 years
Managed Care January 2005	Is It Time To Create a 'Fed Board' To Oversee Clinical Research? The physician-author of "Overdosed America" argues that the privatization of medical research, the diminished role of universities as impartial overseers of medical knowledge, and the drug and medical-device industry's growing influence on government have changed the fundamental purpose of medical knowledge in the United States.
Managed Care September 2005	There's Now a Correct Method For Defining ROI in Disease Management Health care consultant Al Lewis, the godfather of disease management, talks about how the industry went wrong, and is now going right, in describing its own value to health plans, public employers, and the government.
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Howard Dean, MD, Sees Universal Coverage as a Realistic Goal The former Vermont governor at first greeted managed care with good will. Now, however, he thinks it is shortsighted in its dealing with doctors. Unlike President Bush, he wouldn't call on it to rescue Medicare.
Managed Care October 2001 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Pharmacists in Need The executive vice president and CEO of the American Pharmaceutical Association says pharmacists are being inundated and need help...
Managed Care March 2001 Patrick Mullen	John Kenagy This surgeon and Harvard scholar says better systems emerge when those who encounter problems firsthand design the improvements themselves...
Managed Care May 2000	Interview: John M. Eisenberg, M.D., M.B.A. New name -- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality -- new focus. The director says it's less about guidelines, more about preventing errors.
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 September 1999	Selling The Electronic Patient Chart: A Conversation With Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D. This physician and his backers are making a $100 million bet that electronic patient records, and widespread access to them through the Internet, are not far away for most practices.
Managed Care April 2001 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Alan F. Holmer With the ever-rising cost of prescription drugs generating an outcry to reform Medicare, PhRMA's president finds himself in the eye of the storm...
Managed Care March 2006 Patrick Mullen	Leveling the Field for Docs and Plans: A Conversation with Lucinda (Cindy) Ehnes, JD The director of California's Department of Managed Health Care sees problems if high-deductible plans replace the state's 'delegated model.'