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Managed Care February 2005	Different methods used to gauge doc performance Just how physician performance is measured has become more important as P4P programs proliferate.
Managed Care February 2002	Hospital costs lead way in health care expenditures The share of the gross domestic product attributed to health care increased slightly more than overall GDP growth from 1999 to 2000 -- the first time that's happened in nine years...
Managed Care March 2005	Family practice base salary continues to improve Base salaries of family practice physicians increase.
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Managed Care April 2006	Pay-for-Performance Champions Excited by California Program's Success A quality incentive program in California is yielding results that could be replicated in Medicare and other pay-for-performance (P4P) programs nationwide according to a new report.
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Managed Care March 2006 Taylor & Eck	It's Time for CMS to Release Physician Medicare Claim Information The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services is a rich source of price and quality data. Isn't it about time it shared that data?
Managed Care December 2000	Headlines on Deadline... Physician fees under Medicare will go up an average of 4.5 percent next year... The number of HMOs participating in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan dropped by 40 percent... The California Public Employees' Retirement System has seen a 40-percent increase in medical costs... etc.
Managed Care September 2002	Medicare holds down physician pay Compensation increased at a comparatively small rate from 2000 to 2001 for both primary care physicians and specialists, according to the Medical Group Management Association.
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BusinessWeek February 17, 2011	Taking a Scalpel to Medicaid A look at eight key states whose governors want to cut costs for Medicaid.
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Managed Care March 2006	Standard Measures In Works For P4P Push Uncle Sam has decided to get behind the pay-for-performance effort in a big way, something some physician associations are less than thrilled about.
Managed Care May 2007 David A. Sparrow	Pay for Performance: As Much About Costs as About Quality You don't really have a true pay-for-performance program if it doesn't say so on the bottom line.
Managed Care December 2001	Economic Boom Over, State Health Budgets Besieged The National Association of State Budget Officers estimated that aggregate state shortfalls for fiscal 2002 could exceed $15 billion...
Managed Care March 2008	CMS Hybrid Payment System Shows Promise Combining Medicare fee-for-service payments with new incentive programs could help physician groups save money for Medicare and reach quality-of-care targets.
Managed Care January 2005	Health Care Inflation Takes a Breather The good news for payers: Health care spending is estimated to have grown 7.8% in 2003, a slowdown from the 9.3% growth seen in 2002.
Managed Care July 2002	CBO Weighs Effect of Growing Deficit on Fed Programs Health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid figure to suffer, thanks to a growing federal budget deficit, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.
Managed Care July 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Managed Medicaid Business Might Be Worth the Difficulties Financial, regulatory, and access problems continue. Still, this remains a growth industry and some have found a way to profit.
Bank Systems & Technology September 17, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	Banks Missing Out on $5bn Revenue Opportunity in Expedited Payments Banks will essentially lose the payments franchise to billers, says Javelin Strategy & Research, if they don't take advantage of the opportunities around expedited payments.
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Managed Care September 2003	Primary care pay falls again Primary care physicians' compensation continues to decline, according to the American Medical Group Association's 2003 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity survey.
Managed Care January 2001 Bob Carlson	Ohio Struggles To Rescue Managed Medicaid Program Health plans and providers in Ohio's beleaguered Medicaid managed care program, OhioCare, welcomed its per-member, per-month payment increases of more than 25 percent over the last two years...
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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...
Entrepreneur October 2009 Rosalind Resnick	Conquering Your Fear of Fees Savvy investors know to read the fine print about money-management charges.
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Managed Care December 2007 John Carroll	How Doctors Are Paid Now, And Why It Has to Change Everyone knows about the perverse incentive of fee-for-service medicine, but that hasn't had much effect on its use.
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.
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Managed Care July 2007	AMA: Patients Will Feel Cuts in Medicare Next year's proposed 10 percent cut in Medicare payments is serving as a rallying point for members of the American Medical Association, which says the cuts will make it difficult for physicians to accept new Medicare patients.
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