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Managed Care December 2007 Lola Butcher	Insurers Get Involved in Campaign Against Hospital-Acquired Infections Health plans prod hospitals to do a better job of addressing problems that kill nearly 100,000 Americans a year.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Managed Care June 2003 Maureen Glabman	Managed Care Makes It Tough For Some Hospitals To Stay Afloat True, there are other reasons the facilities have closed, but insurers' payment rates stand out. Is it better that some are history?
Managed Care March 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Medical Errors, D.C.'s New Cause - Will Result Be Action, or Just Talk? ...In its landmark study, "To Err Is Human," the Institute of Medicine embarrassed health care by labeling it at least a decade behind other high-risk industries in protecting its customers....
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Nursing Management October 2011 Edna Cadmus	Your role in redesigning healthcare We need to rethink how we provide care and to understand the interconnectedness and the structure of healthcare by looking at it as a whole vs. the sum of its parts. As leaders we need to view the evidence as we rethink healthcare together.
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