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Managed Care July 2002	Money isn't everything Physicians are fairly happy with their incomes, but unhappy with the number of hours they have to work, as well as with the ancillary duties involved in practicing medicine, according to a survey.
Managed Care August 2006	Put Away That Carrot and Stick Researchers interviewed practice managers about how financial incentives are implemented in physician practices and the attitudes and perceptions they had toward P4P programs.
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.
Managed Care January 2006	Compensation Monitor A recent poll reveals that doctors distrust pay for performance programs.
Managed Care May 2003	Program Rewards Physicians For Delivering High-Quality Care Bonuses for delivering high quality care will be the focus of a three-market program spearheaded by the National Committee for Quality Assurance and supported by a coalition of physicians, health plans, large employers, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Managed Care June 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Re-Emergence of the Primary Care Physician A new model of care developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians places primary care physicians back at the center of care delivery.
Managed Care June 2007	Nations Rated On Health Care Despite having the costliest health care system in the world, the United States ranks last compared with five other affluent countries on measures of quality, access, efficiency, equity, and outcomes, according to a survey analysis.
Managed Care April 2007	Physicians Oppose Public Disclosure of Quality Although 3 out of 4 primary care physicians support the use of financial rewards as an incentive for better medical care, the majority would rather not make quality assessments readily available to the public, according to a recent survey.
Managed Care May 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Will Pay for Performance Programs Introduce a New Set of Problems? Paying incentives to physicians to practice evidence-based medicine appears to be an idea whose time has come. Such programs -- even if successful -- may create a new set of problems.
Managed Care July 2001 Harry L. Leider	HMOs Need To Share Gains of DM Programs Physicians are more likely to buy in if they see better outcomes -- and financial rewards that go with them...
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.
Managed Care May 2007	Compensation Monitor Most docs break bread with pharma.
Managed Care April 2002	What's An E-Mail Consultation Worth? The answer depends on whom you ask. A search of news archives turns up two reported experiments with reimbursement of physicians for e-mail communication with patients...
Managed Care December 2005 Ricardo Guggenheim	Putting EBM To Work (Easier Said Than Done) Through widespread implementation of evidence-based medicine, the United States has its best chance of erasing the variations in care that currently extract such huge costs -- both human and financial -- from the health care system.
Managed Care May 2004	Physician Pay Remains Flat, But Bonuses Rise The increased use of bonuses represents the physician market getting more competitive.
Managed Care March 2004	Health care execs say consumers lack information on quality "Consumers are miserably armed right now to make judgments on quality," Humphrey Taylor, chairman of Harris Interactive's Harris Poll, told attendees at the World Health Care Congress.
Managed Care May 2007 MargaretAnn Cross	Following the Leaders Top pay-for-performance programs point to increased focus on hospital incentives, efficiency measures, coordination, and standardization.
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 Catherine Arnst	America's Angry Patients U.S. patients pay more, wait longer to be seen, and suffer a higher rate of medical mistakes.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: A Hope and a Payer If current trends continue, the United Kingdom will spend 12.7 percent of its GDP on healthcare by 2050. Maybe that means it's time to reform the National Health Service's notoriously complex drug payment scheme.
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2013 Al Topin	The Doctor-Patient Disconnect Doctor-patient conversations aren't always what we think; this basic interaction represents both a problem and an opportunity for today's drug marketers, says the author.
Managed Care May 2000	Texas-Aetna Incentives Settlement Worries Some Capitated Physicians If the Texas deal ignites a trend away from the use of incentives to keep utilization down, then some capitated physicians worry it will put them in a tight spot.
Managed Care August 2004	Free Database Encourages Wide Sharing of Information on Programs' Outcomes Yes, health care is a business, but altruistic plans would like to cooperate with others. The Leapfrog Group has set up a simple mechanism to do this.
Managed Care December 2006	Compensation Monitor More than half of the nation's HMOs use pay-for-performance programs.
Managed Care October 2005	P4P Programs Used To Get Docs Online For both doctors and patients, health information is crucial -- that's what many pay-for-performance programs hopes to promote.
BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Drew Armstrong	The Simplest Rx: Check on Your Patient Doctors and insurers cut costs by sharing information.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Ken Getz	Building Clinical Trial Awareness for Patients: Why Not Try the Pharmacist? The author explains how building a stakeholder outreach agenda around the community pharmacist can lead to a better outcome in managing the complex ins and outs of a trial protocol.
Information Today November 13, 2014	RCGP Taps DynaMed to Provide Learning Resources The U.K.'s Royal College of General Practitioners accredited EBSCO Health's DynaMed clinical reference tool in order to give general practitioners an additional source for learning credits.
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?
Managed Care November 2005 Frank Diamond	Physicians and Plans Can Get Along Hill Physicians Medical Group, one of the largest IPAs in the country, has learned to deliver what managed care plans want
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Paul Greenberg	Medical Education: Real-Time CME News-based CME helps doctors stay on top of new medical information and changes in treatment -- before their patients do.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005	Crusader for Clearer E-Info Entrepreneur Jonathan S. Bush -- yes he's related -- discusses how Web-based medical records can become a workable reality
Managed Care July 2007 R. Knight Steel	Incentives Work Against Proper Elder Care The health care system encourages a reaction to episodes that is both costly and inefficient.
Managed Care November 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Rocky Mountain's Success with Chronic Care Model Paying for medical group practice redesign can significantly enhance the quality of care for chronically ill patients, and perhaps lower long-term costs.
Insurance & Technology August 6, 2010 Nathan Golia	WellPoint Providing Financing for Health IT WellPoint hopes that favorable interest rates on loans and other financial incentives will ease adoption of technology among rural hospitals and other providers.
Inc. June 2008	Online Nuggets: When Bonuses Backfire As Marc Andreessen notes on blog.pmarca.com, creating a good incentive program is easier said than done.
American Family Physician November 1, 2000	Policy Center One-Pager The Importance of Primary Care Physicians as the Usual Source of Healthcare in the Achievement of Prevention Goals...
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 February 2007	Quality is Important, But Productivity Rules Despite a rise in the use of quality incentives to determine physician compensation, productivity remains the predominant determinant.
CIO October 29, 2015 Martha Heller	Amgen uses algorithms to venture into digital healthcare A senior vice president of global marketing and commercial development, says she's working with the CIO to set up a digital healthcare organization that can help physicians better predict how patients will respond to therapies.
CFO May 1, 2009 Josh Hyatt	Strong Medicine Boosted by a substantial injection of cash from the federal stimulus bill, electronic medical records may help relieve the pain of rising premiums by improving efficiencies in the medical system.
Managed Care March 2008 John Carroll	Should Plans Pay Physicians To Switch Patients to Generics? The AMA calls it a kickback, but the industry sees it as just good practice to give doctors an incentive to get patients on equivalent generics
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 Jack Ewing	Long-Haul House Calls Doctors are commuting across the European Union to ease shortages.
CIO April 1, 2006 Michael Fitzgerald	The Business Case for Paperless Medicine A strong argument can now be made that doctors in small and midsize practices should invest in electronic health records. Here's how to get your physicians on board.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2009	Why All the Bad Buzz? European docs have always been down on pharma - but now the US is catching on. Perhaps pharma has oversold the "service model."
Managed Care April 2005 Martin Sipkoff	Health Plans, Employers Join Forces To Promote E-Prescribing The e-prescribing movement is getting some new advocates --employers. Can the combined influence of plans, employers, and the government affect physician buy-in?
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.
PHONE+ September 28, 2009 Mike Rosen	Targeting Health Care Providers With Communications Rx One way to improve practice efficiencies and at the same time enhance patient care is a converged telephony solution.
Managed Care February 2002 Alan M. Muney	Evidence-Based Medicine Needs To Be Promoted More Vigorously This means using a carrot-and-stick approach with physicians. Those who respect the evidence should be rewarded; others should face penalties...
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