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MANAGED CARE March 2008. ©MediMedia USA
Vol. 17, No. 3
March 2008
Cover Story
The Best Health Plan in America
That’s what two organizations say about Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Dynamic leadership and excellent networks helped catapult this regional power to national prominence.
An Absorbing Epilepsy Drug Battle
How much and how fast medication enters the bloodstream is the focus in this brand-name/generic competition.
Outcomes Research Brings Plans Together
A health plan partnership known as HMO RN is using pooled data to learn more about cardiovascular disease.
Insurers Embrace Retail Clinics
They’ve been described as an example of health care that delivers the right care, in the right place, for the right cost.
Global Provider Networks Beckon
As medical tourism becomes more popular, insurers take their first tentative steps toward contracting with physicians overseas.
Great Expectations for Health 2.0
Health 1.0 was a lecture. This is a conversation, perhaps even a free-for-all. Will medicine benefit?
Departments
Something for everyone.
Paying doctors to prescribe generics.
News and Commentary
Proposed 2009 HEDIS Measures Address Immunization, Obesity Rates
Drug Caps Lower Spending, but .…
New Drug Abuse Codes Adopted
Headlines On Deadline
PBM “transparency” bolstered by suit.
Hybrid payment system shows promise.
Not easy to compare Medicare PDPs.
Humana offers multiyear contracts.
New drug for PKU.
Specialty pharmacy costs jump.