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MANAGED CARE March 2007. ©MediMedia USA
Vol. 16, No. 3
March 2007
Cover Story
Prevention: Cancer's Best Treatment
Health plans are increasingly involved in promoting the lifestyle changes that may help members avoid cancer, and are managing the cases they do cover more carefully.
What some health plans are doing to improve care.
Everyone Likes Decision Aids for Patients
More insurers assist members faced with medical choices by helping them focus on what matters most to them. Often, the patient will choose the less costly option.
NCQA Measures Docs' Cost-Effectiveness
For the first time, HEDIS will track not only what a physician does, but also how well he does it, and what it costs. It's a health plan's dream.
Health Plans and Domestic Violence
Because intimate partner violence affects all of society, it's in plans' interest to try to prevent it. The planned care model offers a method.
Departments
Yes to the new cancer initiatives.
Medicare Advantage at risk.
Copayment or coinsurance?
News and Commentary
Harvard Study Endorses Value-Based Insurance Design
Competition Wins Over Centralization
1 in 5 non-elderly women are uninsured [chart]
NCQA Toughens Evaluation of PPOs
Use of Generics On the Rise
Headlines On Deadline...
Coalitions promote e-prescribing.
U.K. docs get bigger bonuses.
Searching for care management data.
New polymer moves beyond sutures.
More PDAs for physicians in 2010.