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Managed Care December 2002	M+C meltdown hinders access to medications The fact that health plans are abandoning Medicare+Choice at a slower rate than in previous years doesn't mask the fact that the exodus of plans only exacerbates the problem of lack of pharmaceutical coverage for the elderly.
Managed Care February 2006	Managed Care Offered to More Medicaid Enrollees A chart illustrates the percentage of medicaid enrollees in managed care, for the years 1996 to 2004.
Managed Care May 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Part D Means Health Plans Will Have To Pay Pharmacists Medication therapy management helps people to stay on their prescribed regimens. Part D plans can expect to start making payments for the service in 2007.
Managed Care April 2004	Medicaid DM To Get Boost From CMS The federal government plans to give Medicaid disease management a lift by matching the money states pay to run such programs.
Managed Care August 2002	24 States Hope Pharmacy Plus Helps Medicaid Twenty-four states may gamble that providing a prescription drug program to low-income elderly who do not qualify for Medicaid could save them money in the long run.
Fast Company February 2003 Christine Canabou	Take the Cure Inside the world's largest, most advanced pharmacy.
Managed Care August 2001	Prescription Plan For Medicare Faces Lawsuit President Bush's plan to give prescription discounts to Medicare beneficiaries has created quite a storm...
Managed Care April 2005	Medicare Modernization Act to Increase Public Sector Spending Nearly 50 Percent While the burden on the public sector to supply health care benefits to Medicare and Medicaid enrollees will increase, on the private side, a reevaluation of current forms of health insurance coverage may take place as growth in premiums continues to outpace growth in compensation.
Managed Care April 2002 Rhonda Greenapple	HMOs Have Stake in Quelling Anger at Drug Store Counters Dissatisfied customers have a tendency to lash out and not be very discriminating about their targets. Prescription: Reduce the hassle...
Managed Care March 2007	Use of Generics On the Rise Recent data indicate that generic medication accounts for nearly 60% of the drugs dispensed to people in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans and Medicare Advantage plans.
Managed Care December 2002	Drug-discount program's effectiveness hindered by lack of use California offers a prescription drug discount program that allows Medicare beneficiaries to get discounts just by showing their Medicare cards to pharmacists. Unfortunately, a majority of those eligible -- both those with and without drug coverage -- have never heard of the program.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006 Mike Mallett	Marketing to Professionals: Penetrate the Point of Purchase Leverage mystery shoppers, and improve patient compliance through local pharmacists.
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...
CIO August 1, 2002 Stephanie Overby	Rx for Chicken Scratch Poor physician penmanship is the butt of many jokes, but illegible prescriptions are no laughing matter. Some pharmacies are starting to use electronic systems to accept prescriptions from doctors electronically via PC, PDA, or cell phone, thus ensuring accurate prescription filling.
Managed Care July 2006	Education Concerns Push Back Florida's Medicaid Experiment The greatly anticipated meeting between Medicaid and managed care that's expected to take place in Florida has been delayed.
Managed Care May 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Medication Therapy Management May Finally Enter the Mainstream Pharmacies can now take advantage of CPT codes to bill insurers for direct patient care. Will private payers follow Medicare in offering this service?
Managed Care October 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Asheville's Legacy: Pharmacy Moves From Dispensing to Clinical Management It is an idea whose time has finally come: Today's clinical pharmacists are involved in virtually all aspects of medical care.
Reason August 2003 Sara Rimensnyder	The Morning After Pharmacies and medical freedom
Managed Care August 2002 Madeleine A. Estabrook	Regulators Take More Interest In Role of PBMs in Health Care In a highly regulated industry such as health care, it is just a matter of time before every component of the industry comes under scrutiny and review. Pharmacy benefit managers are taking center stage now.
Job Journal July 27, 2008 Julia Hollister	Pharmacy Careers: Filling the Needs of an Aging Nation America's aging population ensures long-term demand for pharmacy specialists.
Managed Care December 2001	CMS Medicaid Managed Care Proposal Under Close Scrutiny Bioterrorism. Medicaid managed care plans. No link between them? Guess again. It all has to do with how proposed Medicaid regulations would affect patients' rights and funding for Medicaid programs ranging from nursing home care to emergency rooms...
Managed Care January 2008 Martin Sipkoff	Should Pharmacists Be Allowed To Vaccinate Their Patients? Although federal health agencies support the idea of having pharmacists administer vaccines to their patients, the roadblock continues to be a question of payment.
Managed Care May 2004 Thomas G. Dolan	Pharmacist Care An Idea Whose Time Is Still Coming For more than a decade, it has seemed this idea would catch fire. But many insurers are still looking for evidence that it can reduce overall costs.
Managed Care March 2001	Maine Gets HCFA Waiver for Drug Discount Program The Health Care Financing Administration has given Maine officials clearance to offer a discount prescription program to 200,000 people without a pharmacy benefit...
Job Journal February 25, 2007	Career Snapshot: Pharmacy Technician The shortage of both pharmacists and pharmacist technicians is projected to get worse, meaning plenty of job opportunities.
Managed Care August 2000	With Cost Study, Group Argues For OTC Benefit A study by HECON Associates, a Maryland-based market research group, supports the claim that when prescription drugs become available over the counter, consumers face increased out-of-pocket costs.
Job Journal August 21, 2005 Julia Hollister	As America Ages, Pharmacists Flourish Demand for more druggists is swelling as baby boomers age. According to Department of Labor statistics, the outlook for employment is excellent and that trend is expected to continue for at least the next seven years.
Managed Care November 2005 John A. Marcille	Florida's Medicaid Waiver Will Be Scrutinized Closely Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt approved a Medicaid waiver application that will shift 210,000 beneficiaries in Broward and Duval counties into managed care beginning in July 2006.
Managed Care September 2005	It's Good to be a Pharmacist in California Salaries for staff pharmacists saw a healthy jump of 5.5% in 2005, compared to 2004.
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...
Managed Care October 2007	Compensation Monitor How primary care doctors are paid affects quality in Medicaid MCOs.
Managed Care December 2006	Medicaid Plans Too Successful For Own Good? The Wall Street Journal reports that Medicaid costs appear to be stabilizing, but health plans are raking in huge profits.
Insurance & Technology September 16, 2005 Phil Britt	Ounce of Prevention Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is providing system physicians with the ability to prescribe medicines electronically, which should improve safety and efficiency.
Managed Care December 2004	Go West, Young Pharmacist The pharmacy profession continues to pay well, though where somebody practices has much to do with just how well, according to the 2004 Pharmacy Compensation Survey.
Managed Care December 2000	How To Save Money on Prescriptions There are ways for low-income groups to avoid paying top dollar for prescriptions. Here's one way physicians can educate consumers...
Managed Care March 2004	More State Medicaid Programs Use Preferred Drug Lists To Manage Costs Medicaid, enacted in 1965, is currently costing over $200 billion per year. With rapidly rising health care costs, including prescription drugs, state Medicaid budgets are feeling the strain. Here's what they're trying to do to manage.
HBS Working Knowledge July 14, 2006 Regina E. Herzlinger	The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid The Medicaid program is a health insurance safety net for 52 million Americans, but the price tag threatens the financial stability of the states. South Carolina provides a model in consumer-driven healthcare.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2005 Phil Patrick	Marketing to Professionals: Senior-Care Specialists Surge In light of the growing senior population, pharmaceutical marketers are building partnerships with senior specialists.
Managed Care August 2000 Carey Lee Straetz	Managing Medicaid Rolls Often State-by-State Affair Despite the strong economy, Medicaid enrollment may be slowly rising after a three-year decline. The challenges for serving this population are huge.
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.
Managed Care March 2002 Michael Levin-Epstein	Illinois's Medicare Drug Program Called 1st Stab at National Reform The Illinois demonstration program gives the state permission to use federal and state Medicaid dollars to provide prescription drug coverage for 365,000 low-income, elderly Medicare beneficiaries...
Managed Care June 2003 Joyce Ochs, MBA	Bar Coding: Old Technology To the Rescue Grocery stores and the nonpharmaceutical parts of drug stores have been using bar codes for years. Now retail and hospital pharmacies will use the technology to save lives.
Managed Care December 2004	Number of Prescriptions Grows Faster Than Population With the rising costs of prescriptions and other issues relating to implementation of the new Medicare drug benefit, it is no wonder that policymakers are considering new approaches to addressing drug costs.
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 Howard Gleckman	Radical Surgery For Medicaid? South Carolina Governor Sanford has a plan to slash costs - but a political battle looms.
Managed Care February 2007	Managed Care Outlook Coverage for children leads policy debate.
CIO November 15, 2005 Susannah Patton	Medical Records Gone with the Wind To help Hurricane Katrina victims get appropriate medical treatment, the federal government, with help from other public and private groups, has established a website where health-care workers can retrieve prescription histories and related information on evacuees.
Managed Care June 2003	For-profit, not-for-profit enrollment holding about steady While HMOs seemed to be losing enrollees to PPOs, the ratio of enrollees in for-profit and not-for-profit HMOs stabilized in the late 1990s, according to data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Managed Care November 1999	New Prescribing Patterns Behind Rx Cost Hikes? ...EBRI says the discrepancy is explained by the fact that some people are walking out with many more prescriptions...
Managed Care November 2002 John Carroll	Drug Companies Crying Foul Over Medicaid's Formulary Push With states' preferred drug lists spreading like a prairie wildfire, the manufacturers have mounted a furious legislative counterattack, funding grass roots campaigns aimed at fanning the opposition in state legislatures even as they wage a legal war in state and federal courts.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2010	Pharmacies are Our Friends An underutilized sales resource, pharmacies and their staffs can help lead to improved scrip fulfillment and increased business.