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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Financial Planning April 1, 2006 Joan Warner	A Prescription for Planners As clients assume a growing burden for healthcare costs, financial advisers will have to figure this expense into financial plans -- building more uncertainty and competing goals into the mix.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 October 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Lure of Tax Reform Politicians on both sides of the aisle are considering tax reforms as a way of fixing the health care system. What might it mean for health plans?
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 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 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 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.
Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation.
Managed Care April 2004	What's Past is Prologue? Don't Bet on It Many things that were supposed to happen -- like electronic medical records -- didn't, this health care futurist reminds us. Tomorrow needs to be shaped.
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.
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2008 Jill Wechsler	Challenge and Challenges Expanded healthcare coverage also fits the goals of pharma manufacturers.
Managed Care September 2002 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Richard L. Hamer Market-research organization InterStudy's director says that the push for patients' rights has grown into a concern for quality directed mainly at doctors.
Managed Care November 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
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 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 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.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2006	Sales and Marketing: Where the Buck Stops Pharma's ultimate customer is the employer - the guy who pays the health plan's bill. Here's what he wants to know about drugs.
Managed Care September 2006 John Carroll	Managed Medicare Revitalized: Feel-Good Plan of the Decade Insurers are largely happy with what they've seen. They're creating new benefit packages and expect more business in the next one to three years.
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 September 2003 Martin Sipkoff	This Isn't the First Attempt To Shift Cost to Employees Companies are decreasing their share of medical insurance premiums. It remains to be seen how this will affect workers' health status.
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.
Registered Rep. May 25, 2011 Mark Miller	Pros and Cons of the Healthcare Reform Law The new health reform law already is changing the health insurance market in important ways that will affect your clients' choices and expenses.
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 September 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumer-Directed Health Care: Too Good To Be True? People talk about it as the sure way to control costs and give consumers the choice they seem to want. Are we being realistic?
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Joan Warner	What's Next for Medicare Is America's retirement healthcare plan really in trouble? Here's some good news -- and some hard decisions for your financial advisory clients.
Managed Care November 1999 Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D.	Defined Contributions Will Point Employees Toward 'Health Marts' Companies will want to distance themselves from insurance entanglements, giving employees little option but to become more involved....
Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003	Restructuring Medicare Is a Riskier Operation than First Thought Hailed as a bipartisan success when passed in late June, two Medicare reform bills are losing some of their luster as they face closer scrutiny by a conference committee made up of members of both chambers charged with reconciling the legislation this fall.
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 2008 Neil Versel	Health 2.0: Will Its Promise Be Realized? Advocates say new health care websites will transform health care; detractors warn against overestimating the potential
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 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 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 February 2006 Lola Butcher	Consumer-Directed Health Pains Two studies suggest that consumer-directed health care may not be a long-term method for controlling health care costs.