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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.
Nursing Management June 2011 LaRocco & Pinchera	The emerging trend of medical tourism Although it's difficult to find accurate data, there's general agreement that the number of Americans seeking medical care abroad is growing.
Salon.com December 7, 1999 Dena Bunis	Medical mistakes are killing us Health plans covering federal workers will be the first to improve the quality of care.
Managed Care March 2002	6 Large California Plans Link Doc Bonuses, Quality In what's being touted as an unprecedented effort, doctors and hospitals in California will be rewarded with bonuses of at least 5 percent for quality under a common set of standards adopted by six HMOs...
Managed Care June 2001 Jack McCain	Leapfrog Group Actions Will Be Felt Throughout the Health Care System Thanks to a Business Roundtable-sponsored group calling for better outcomes at hospitals, health plans' lobbying efforts may pay off...
Managed Care September 1999	Headlines on Deadline... Healthcare industry news briefs.
Managed Care July 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Hospitals Asked To Account For Errors on Their Watch Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and states may stop paying for specific hospital-acquired conditions. Will health plans follow suit?
InternetNews November 11, 2010	Data Breaches Cost Hospitals $6B A Year: Study Ponemon Institute report finds that healthcare organizations suffer an average of 2.4 data breaches a year, costing in excess of $2 million per incident.
Fast Company April 2006	"MD" Doesn't Mean "Mostly Digital" How technologically backward are U.S. doctors? Here are some statistics.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2013 Shantanu Agrawal	Making Sense of the Sunshine Act: A New Era for Drug Promotion Now that the Sunshine Act's Open Payments spending disclosure program is live, the federal government's lead officer for compliance explains how the new web-based system will work and how US industry, providers, and patients will be better off by making their relationships fully transparent.
Managed Care September 2003	Blue Cross of Calif. Steers Patients Toward Best Hospitals for CABG California seems to be the place where health plans have decided to crack down on hospital costs by spurring better outcomes.
InternetNews June 14, 2010	Lax Data Security Results in Heavy Fines Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future.
Managed Care May 2005 Frank Diamond	Hospitals May See Plans as Their New Confidant Not only can health plans pay for performance, they can offer a mechanism for confidential discussions of mistakes.
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2007 Humphrey Taylor	Opinion: Inappropriate Behavior Do doctors prescribe needless care? Will healthcare costs drop if patients decide whether treatment is necessary? It's time to start talking.
Managed Care March 2007	Competition Wins Over Centralization Insurers who recommend a particular provider or health care organization to a patient considering a surgical procedure need to determine how complex the procedure is and how frequently the surgeon performs the procedure.
CFO October 1, 2010 Alix Stuart	Have Illness, Will Travel? What with health-care costs climbing an estimated 10% on average this year, and health-care reform showing no signs yet of stopping that trend, companies -- particularly those that self-insure -- are becoming more willing to consider medical tourism.
InternetNews June 27, 2006 Michael Hickins	Hospital, HMO Ratings 'Open' to Public New York State adopts online scorecards allowing employers and consumers to review local hospitals and HMOs.
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 Arlene Weintraub	Should Doctors Own Hospitals? Controversy builds over a fast-growing, profit-driven business in which specialty hospitals are partly owned and run by doctors.
Managed Care October 2003 Ed Silverman	Tough Negotiations in Store Between Plans and Hospitals Fallout from the Medicare outlier-payment scandal is likely to force hospitals to try to replace that revenue. Health plans, prepare to negotiate!
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Arlene Weintraub	A Remedy For Malpractice Malaise Hospitals are offering free coverage to recruit doctors from private practice
BusinessWeek May 6, 2010 David Olmos	Data Mining Helps Hospitals Pry Fees from Patients Billing software companies are helping hospitals identify patients with enough assets to cover their bills but who may need help figuring out to do it.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2011	Are You Ready for the New China? The ability to act as a good corporate citizen and assert a useful role in national industrial policy on health is going to be essential to success in the new China.
Managed Care August 2002	Patients' unpaid bills come from physicians, hospitals With health care costs rising and the number of uninsured Americans close to 40 million, physicians and hospitals are feeling the pinch.
Managed Care January 2001	Public's Definition of Quality Focused on Medical Errors A survey jointly sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Research and Quality and the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that information about medical errors and malpractice suits is what people find to be most helpful when determining provider quality...
Managed Care November 2001	Hospitals scramble for cutting-edge personnel Aging baby boomers, fewer people choosing the medical field, and early retirements are all helping to shift hospital demand from primary care physicians to specialists, pharmacists and nurses...
Managed Care November 2007 Lola Butcher	Blues Build on CMS Program To Boost Hospital Quality The insurer throws support behind a pay-for-performance program that promises "stunning" advances in cost-effectiveness.
Managed Care June 2002	Calif. Blues Plan Says No Tiers For Hospitals Blue Cross of California has abandoned its plan to separate hospitals by copayment tiers.
Managed Care December 2004 Adler & Schukman	The Role of Managed Care In Patient Safety & Error Reduction Patient safety and medical errors have become the focus of increasing attention from the public, policymakers, and accreditation agencies. Managed care organizations clearly are important stakeholders in this issue.
Managed Care July 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Money Pit: Is Accreditation Always Worth the Cost? Some plans swear by the benefits of obtaining an "excellent." Others say that customers care much more about cost.
Managed Care July 2003	Tiering Hospitals Pays Off For Calif. Blues Plan Blue Shield of California members are changing utilization patterns as a result of hospital tiering, say company officials. The company is making further changes in its Network Choice program.
Managed Care March 2004	Hospitals Retain Bargaining Edge In Contract Talks Contract negotiations between health plans and providers, primarily hospitals, were mild in 2002 and 2003, compared to how they played out in 2000 and 2001.
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Specialty Hospitals' Success Sows Seeds of Lobbying Fight Some in government question the propriety of physicians steering patients into facilities that the doctors partly own.
CIO June 1, 2003 Alison Bass	A Big Rollout Bust Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems can reduce medication errors by as much as 86 percent, and save hospitals and doctors' practices billions of dollars, studies show. Yet only 3 percent to 5 percent of American hospitals have fully implemented CPOE systems. What gives?
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.
Managed Care December 2002	Providers turn to fee-for-service charges to make up revenue lost under capitation If there's any doubt whether capitation has left a bit of a sour taste in the mouths of physicians and hospitals, a survey issued earlier this year would seem to confirm it.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Querna & Fischman	Good Medical Help Close to Home Your local hospital might be just as good as any glittery big-name center. Finding out if your local hospital is up to snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue.
CFO February 1, 2007 Karen M. Kroll	Pin the Tail on the Doctor A dearth of information leaves health-care consumers in the dark. As health-care information becomes more accessible, will employees use it to purchase health-care services more intelligently?
Managed Care August 2001 John Carroll	Info on Questionable Physicians Languishes in National Data Bank A clearinghouse was created that stores details about malpractice suits and disciplinary actions. So how come HMOs don't use it?
Fast Company April 2012 Christina Chaey	Stevi Riel Provides Partnerships With Hospitals To Find Affordable Help For Patients This year, the U.S. government started a program for health-care innovators. One innovator, Stevi Riel takes what physicians are too busy to do, and partners with hospitals to find affordable prescription solutions for underinsured patients.
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.
InternetNews July 27, 2010	FDA, FCC Push For Wireless Health Technology The government agencies are teaming up to use the latest and greatest wireless technology to improve care and reduce healthcare costs using electronic health records.
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Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006	Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities.
Managed Care March 2008 John Carroll	Aetna and Hannaford Make a Singapore Connection Some insurers are taking tentative steps toward developing global provider networks for corporate clients looking to reduce costs by having medical procedures performed in less expensive countries.
Managed Care July 2004	CalPERS Takes Tough Stand In Giving 38 Hospitals the Boot The move is expected to cut spending for the nation's third-largest purchaser of health care by $36 million in 2005, then save CalPERS about $50 million annually beginning in 2006.
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 May 2002 John Carroll	Hospital Copayments: At What Cost? High daily copayments for high-priced hospitals are coming into fashion. It's all about shifting costs, but what about quality of care?