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MANAGED CARE April 2004. ©MediMedia USA
Vol. 13, No. 4
April 2004
Cover Story
First in Cost, But Not Much Else
We want to believe that health care in the U.S. is better than elsewhere, but several studies say it isn't so. Is our mediocre rank caused by social and political, not purely medical, realities?
'Just What Do You Mean by That, Doctor?'
About two dozen health plans are running treatment-option support programs that encourage patients to ask tough questions about the treatments available to them.
William Rowley, MD, is a health care futurist who says he's not so much interested in being right as in being provocative. Only time will tell if he's right. Provocative?
Working More Closely With Payers
Large companies now like to see physician managers at health plans work with them in customizing programs to minimize disease within their workforces.
Statin vs. Statin (vs. Lifestyle?)
The alphabet soup of statin clinical trials just got even more complicated with the results of PROVE-IT. Who can make sense of it all?
DEPARTMENTS
Is it the health care, or the system?
News and Commentary
Small-Business Lobbying Groups Split Over Association Health Plans
Medicaid DM To Get Boost From CMS
Headlines on Deadline
Should drugs go head to head?
Pharmacy directors see healthy gains.
There is no Futile Care Theory.
Patches are more than skin deep.
Health savings accounts spark interest.