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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 October 2007 John Carroll |
Early Tiered Networks Encounter Many Obstacles From dodgy data to uncooperative doctors, difficulties confront health plans that are trying to stratify providers by cost and quality. |
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 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 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 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. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2011 Suzanne Sataline |
Code Blue? Many financial planners say their physician clients are fretting that they won't have enough money saved to retire on schedule, and that their savings won't hold through their elderly years. |
Managed Care March 2004 John Carroll |
Narrow Networks' Broader Vision Throughout the late 1990s, the fashion in managed care networks was bigger and bigger. These days, though, health plans around the country have begun sizing up so-called narrow networks once again. |
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 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 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 January 2002 Frank Diamond |
Making the Case for a 'Health Care Fed' A U.S. government agency, some argue, should be created to rule on usefulness of medications, equipment, and procedures. Britain has just instituted such a system... |
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.' |
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 August 1, 2005 Lena Chow |
Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market. |
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 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 August 2001 |
Four Views of Managed Care Ethics The evolution of managed care has posed ethical problems for physicians, plan administrators, and even patients. Four ethicists find that questions are many, while satisfactory answers are in short supply... |
Managed Care July 2003 Ed Silverman |
A Little Something For the Physicians Health plans know that getting along with physicians is important, and many are trying new initiatives. Here are some successes. |
Financial Advisor June 2010 Andrew Gluck |
Advising Doctors As medical economics change for the worse, both physicians and their financial advisors are getting organized. |
Fast Company May 2009 Chuck Salter |
The Doctor of the Future Cost, access, quality -- the prognosis for American health care may look grim, but innovation is the cure. The medicine of tomorrow is being born today. |
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 November 1999 Steve Wetzell |
To Cure Risk Aversion, Employers Eye Risk Adjustment ...The more employers can get consumers involved in the game, the more providers will become directly accountable to consumers. Under traditional managed care, employers -- without realizing it -- have put themselves in the middle of the relationship between physicians and their patients... |
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 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 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... |