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MANAGED CARE January 2004. ©MediMedia USA
Vol. 13, No. 1
January 2004
HEALTH PLAN 2009
What Will Be, Will Be
Still, it doesn't hurt to look ahead to 2009, as these experts do.
Helen Darling
Huge challenges cannot be avoided.Leonard Schaeffer
The enduring problem of rising costs.Kenneth S. Abramowitz
Consumer-directed health care won't fly.Joseph Newhouse
Technology's good and ill effects.Paul Fronstin
No end in sight to medical inflation.Alice Gosfield
Rise of nonphysician clinicians.Newt Gingrich
Health care needs to catch up.J.D. Kleinke
"A final underwriting death spiral."
Cooperation Gets to Heart of the Matter
When cardiac surgeons started visiting each others' hospitals, good things happened for patients. MCOs could cooperate too.
Paying for good provider performance will encourage health care transparency, improving the overall health care system.
Just What Do Reinsurers Offer for Free?
For starters, case management.
DEPARTMENTS
Business as unusual.
Don't dismiss alternative medicine.
News and Commentary
Matter of Trust: HMOs Get Little
Large Employers Now Use DM To Cut Their Costs
Study: Loosening of Managed Care Hurts the Poor
Headlines On Deadline ...
Medicare law presents opportunity.
Opportunities for physician executives.
Hiking copayments hurts compliance.
Logic flies when EMRs are debated.
New drugs to fight tumors.
Major reform not in store for 2004.