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- This Isn't the First Attempt To Shift Cost to Employees
- What's Good for the VHA Is Not So Good for Medicare
- Move Over, ACOs. There’s a New Value-based Model in Town
- Will Palm-Size Computers Make Electronic Prescribing Happen?
- Meet capitation at least halfway
- A Tale of Two Doctors
- Creativity Required Equally In Short Run and Long Run
- Payor, Provider, Patient: Healthcare by Consensus
- FDA gears potential government shutdown
- Consumer Groups: WellChoice Funds Improperly Used
- Extenders' pay gains exceed physicians'
- CMS wrestles coverage issues car-t therapies
- Robert Goldberg's blog
- Clinton’s ‘Medicare for More’ Not Such an Easy Cure
- Payers, consumers benefit as patents expire
- Single-Payer Proposition Gets Close Second Look
- What the Devil Is Information Therapy?
- Premium growth to reach 7.1% by 2015
- Congress finally approves funding fight zika virus
- Silent PPOs Spur Doctor Push-Back
- Report seven day readmissions may be better indicator quality care 30 days post discharge
- Should Consumers Be Present On an HMO's Board of Directors?
- September 2013
- Seven design features that could improve P4P
- Past Issues of Managed Care magazine
- Research Articles from Managed Care
- Impulse Device Improves Long-Term Survival in Heart Failure Patients
- PCSK9 inhibitors on the way
- Managed Care Pharmacy
- Health Care Efficiency: Measuring the Cost Associated With Quality
- Digital Equipment Issues Detailed ‘Marching Orders' for its HMOs
- Study: Valium No Better Than Placebo for Lower Back Pain in the ED
- Insurers will find icatibant lifesaving but expensive treatment
- Briefly Noted
- More PBMs used for dispensing, utilization review
- NCQA Revises 6 HEDIS Measures
- One Insurer, One Think-Tank Issue Studies of High-Deductible Plans
- Social Determinants of Health: Stretching Health Care’s Job Description
- CBO Weighs Effect of Growing Deficit on Fed Programs
- How managed care affects hospitalization
- Angela Braly former CEO wellpoint
- Harvard researchers investigate adverse tiering
- Closing Dates for 2015
- Why Falsify Records When Anonymity Can Be Had in a Tested, Familiar Way?
- Texas Physician Quits as HHS Commissioner
- To get or to skip care? Coverage makes the difference
- Medicare's Transition To Managed Care
- Despite downturn, pharmacy jobs abound
- Drug pricing practices unethical retired jama editor says
- A Conversation with Jeff Goldsmith, PhD: Reform Opens the Door For Consumer-Oriented Market
- Effect of Removing Financial Barriers on Use of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptives
- Cyberbullying common devastating
- Specialty anti-inflammatories see huge increase in utilization
- Treating Psoriasis as a T-Cell Mediated Disease
- TennCare's Chief Says Fraud Threatens To Sink Program
- Medicare Failed To Recover Up To $125 Million In Overpayments, Records Show
- Legislation Shortens Members’ Waiting Time
- Heart Failure Treatment Gaps Costs Lives, Hikes Expenses
- Residents' Hours Decline, But Safety Doesn't Improve
- Payers Can Successfully Navigate Mergers and Acquisitions
- Self-Funded HMOs on the Rise
- Magazine’s Founder Hangs Up His Spurs
- Research Articles from Managed Care
- Positive Results Reported for Triple Combination Therapy in COPD Patients
- Use of multitier benefit designs increases
- Tracking Disparities in Care
- Primary care pay falls again
- Premier health plan exit ohio exchange
- Pioneer Not-for-Profit Plans Struggle to Remain Leaders
- 5 Big Plans Promise PHR Portability
- Trading Your Independence For a Guaranteed Salary
- FDA approves rituxan hycela subcutaneous injection certain blood cancers
- Proposal Would Limit Profit of Some California Plans
- The History and Future of Personalized Medicine
- As a killer, cancer catching up to heart disease
- Iphone and Apple Watch apps new tools medical research trade
- ‘Freeze the pay on specialists’
- MANAGED CARE OCTOBER 2019
- Not-for-Profit Advocate Calls for Managerial Rigor
- Prime Therapeutics’ Clients See Only 2.5% Drug Spend Increase in 2016
- Virtual vs actual networks
- The March of the Boomers: Daily Armies of New Seniors Swell the Medicare Ranks
- Popular content
- PBMs, Medicare Advantage, Fraud Just Three Topics to Keep Track Of
- Drug Giants Turn to Leading Professors to Justify Hefty Price Tags
- Pharmacy Benefit Starts To Reflect Push for Consumer-Directed Care
- November 2001
- Treating Uterine Fibroids Using MR-Guided Ultrasound
- Real-World Evidence Not Quite Believable Enough
- DM Vendors Start To Address Costs Created by Comorbidities
- Study Shows Comparability of Biosimilar ABP 980 and Trastuzumab in Certain Breast Cancer Cases
- Tainted Scope Infections Exceed Earlier Estimates
- Simple compound could provide first new therapy myeloid leukemia 40 years
- Going on the Offensive Against Defensive Medicine
- Researchers analyze epidemiology fractures diabetes
- 5 Big Plans Promise PHR Portability
- Programs for high-need patients. What makes the good ones good?
- Military brings order to formulary system
- A Conversation with Larry Levitt: Finding The Trends In Health Care Chaos
- Can Self-Management Programs Ease Chronic Conditions?
- Stark II Wants Contribution Plan Installed Before Payment Period Begins
- Expensive New Biologic Helps Children Fight Hypophosphatasia
- We’ll Deal With Change in 2011
- Common antidepressants plus opioid reduces pain relief
- JCAHO's Oryx Initiative Links Outcomes with Accreditation
- Trouble for Hospitals & Health Plans In States That Nix Medicaid Expansion
- The latest blow to managed care?
- 10 most costly conditions in men and women
- Anthem cites sdoh offerings boost medicare advantage gains
- Study despite opioid concerns seniors often exit hospitals prescriptions
- A Conversation with Lee N. Newcomer, M.D.: Out of the Frying Pan Onto the Cutting Edge
- Healing Power of Color As Cheap as Coat of Paint
- Positive Phase 3 Results Reported for Sunitinib (Sutent) in Patients at Risk of Recurrent Renal Carcinoma
- Alzheimer's drug targeting soluble amyloid falls short trial
- Decline in cervical cancer death rate ends
- Survey: Only 20% of Americans Favor Obamacare Repeal Without Replacement Plan
- Association Health Plans High on Bush's '03 Agenda
- Injected Device Shown Effective in Reducing Fecal Incontinence
- Health Care Consumers Really Are Sensitive to Prices
- Incentives Are Good (Except When They’re Bad)
- FDA advisors recommend approval probuphine treat opioid addiction
- House Call Revival, Digital-Style
- A Conversation With Paul Wallace, MD: Reaping the Benefits of a Connected System
- Pioneer ACOs: Some Unhitch Wagons While Others Roll Over Rocky Terrain
- Give them what they want
- Stark II: Division of Profits Comes Under Closer Scrutiny
- Many PCPs Now Use Electronic Health Records
- When Is a Brand a Generic? In a Contract With a PBM
- Plans Use Narrow Networks in Exchanges; Public, Politicians Predictably Perturbed
- To Dent Soaring Drug Costs, States Turn to ‘Price-Gouging’ Laws
- Increasing lupus cases coincide with Benlysta approval
- The bigger they (MCOs) are, the better they'll do
- Hemophilia drug emicizumab succeeds phase 3 study
- DM trends you should know about industry evolving nice boost uncle sam
- Biosimilars Might Not Measure Up To Health Plan Expectations
- Two Accrediting Organizations Prepare To Issue DM Standards
- A Seer of Trump’s Coming Parses Repeal and Replace
- Study: Half of Elderly Colorectal Cancer Patients Receive Valueless Treatment
- Go West, young pharmacist
- Payers and Pharma Bridging Direct-to-Consumer Divide
- end it will be episode payment
- February 2003
- A New Model For Managing Care
- Medical, prescription drug cost rates to drop in 2005
- FDA Rejects Andexanet Alfa (AndexXa) for Reversal of Anticoagulation
- Little better all time it cant get more worse
- What Makes Harvard Pilgrim So Good?
- Research Articles from Managed Care
- Introducing the CHR, More Like a PHR Than an EMR
- African-Americans Die Younger Due to Heart Disease, Stroke
- Bundled Payments: Value in Bite Sizes
- Improved Adherence Highlights Specialty Pharmacy’s Potential
- Will Your State's Privacy Law Be Superseded by HIPAA?
- A conversation with James Sabin, MD: When Values Clash
- Cyber criminals targeting FTP servers compromise protected health information FBI warns
- Leading Through Contradictions
- Risk Pays Off Under HCFA's New Medicare Scheme
- Biggest Health Care Purchasers Bullish on Care Management
- How much return does that PhD provide?
- Mobile App Helps Members Find Docs
- States Trim What They Can to Restrain Medicaid Costs
- AMCP To Test New Guidelines For Formularies
- Vol. 6, No. 8 August 1997
- Many State Medicaid Agencies Use Financial Incentives To Boost Quality
- Provider Shortage Puts HMOs In Bind
- California Kaiser Physicians Face Longer Work Week
- Pfizer weighs strategic alternatives consumer healthcare business
- Just What the Devil Is Population-Based Care?
- Follow the Shrinking Managed Care Savings
- Harvard Pilgrim’s Patrick Cahill Tries To Make Sense of It All
- Archelle Georgiou MD's blog
- Episode-of-Care Payment Creates Clinical Advantages
- An Editor's Problem: How To Stay Humble
- Know These Five Things Before You're Capitated
- Selling The Electronic Patient Chart: A Conversation With Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D.
- New guidelines blood thinning therapy
- Many More Medicaid Members — If the States Choose to Cooperate
- Rosy future for hepatitis C patients — and for payers (over the long haul)
- Value based contracting between insurers and drug companies faces tough hurdles
- Internet center stage technology conference
- May I Please See Some Identification?
- Letters to the Editor
- Administrative tasks related to managed care cost physician practices $31 billion per year
- When pressure's on, raises get better
- ACA’s MLR Rule Tough on Brokers
- MCO Works Hard to Integrate Specialty Pharma Operations
- Stark II Wants Contribution Plan Installed Before Payment Period Begins
- Plans & employers step up controls on specialty pharmacy
- Medicaid Wellness Programs Face Challenges
- Substantial Increase Seen in PPO Quality Reporting
- 2-dose varicella vaccination highly successful
- The Coming HIPAA Crisis
- AMA's Union Approval Raises Troubling Issues
- Have a Date With Surgery? PROMs Help Patients Decide
- Antiviral Cleared for All Six HCV Strains in Children
- Insurers to Face Financial Challenges
- Headlines On Deadline…
- Intraocular Lens Implants Can't Help But Catch the Eye
- Drug-induced diseases focus of pharmacy manual
- Former Governor Attacks Overhaul of Ky. Coverage
- Physician, HEDIS Thyself
- Price Hikes May Ease Pressure–Temporarily
- Medicaid DM To Get Boost From CMS
- Health Care Becoming a Commodity, Leading Corporate Executives Suggest
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- Incentive Formularies Have Minimal Effect
- How We Got It Anyway: The Clinton Health Plan Never Died
- Don't Put Off Dealing With the ‘Millennium Bug'
- 2002
- Worker's Comp — Can Managed Care Fix It?
- A Conversation With David A. Fleming, MD: Medical Practices Struggle With Change
- When an implanted device is recalled, do you have a system to deal with it?
- Headlines on Deadline…
- Physician pay used boost quality
- Though Still a Priority, Reform May Take Back Seat as Privacy Issues Heat Up
- Past Issues of Managed Care magazine
- Drug-Eluting Stents To Transform Cardiovascular Medicine
- Health System Selects SNFs To Improve Overall Care
- Provider Association Litigation: Better Choice for Dispute Resolution?
- Physicians reconsider taking pharmacy risk
- Lower Dose of Clot-Busting Drug Reduces Brain Bleeding
- What Works Best for Patients? PCORI Hopes to Provide Answers
- Cannabis Medicinal
- Large PBMs Transform Old Business Models
- Orphan Drug Act Treatments Deserve Full Insurance Coverage
- What the Primary Care Physician Shortage Means for Health Plans
- Weighing future value based care you need scale
- Some Worry Quality Suffers In Move To Tier Physicians
- Cruzs plan to salvage health care replacement grabs
- “Nanobody” Medication Vobarilizumab Shows Promise in RA Patients
- PBMs: Criticized But Still Needed
- Addition of quinolones to hospital formularies changes pneumonia treatment
- Pay for Performance: Losing Mojo But Getting Props
- Improving Quality Starts With Changing the Culture
- Artificial Disc Now Available, But Is It Better Than Other Therapies?
- Who says zika vaccine trials may come too late
- A Conversation With Helen Darling: Large Employers’ Reform Agenda
- DM Standards Off and Crawling
- Company plans challenge FDAs rejection acromegaly drug
- UK: Health Care Policy Mayhem…and a Very Public Scandal
- Hospitals So Far Escape Blame in Health Care Debate
- NCQA Report Not Just About HEDIS Any More, Doctor
- New Guidelines on Lyme Disease
- Popular content
- Striving for Optimum Transitions of Care
- Pay for Performance Proceeds at Proper Pace
- U.S. Docs Outspend Ontario Physicians
- States Increasingly Mandate Special Autism Services
- Injectable Drug Program Saves Plan $28.5 Million
- Nurse practitioners can't do what primary care docs can do
- Florida’s MCO Medicaid Path May Be Taken by Other States
- 2017
- Perverse Incentives Abound, But Maybe We Can Control Them
- Cancer screening initiatives
- Prison accused of killing inmates slowly
- Want to Change Patients’ Behavior? Look to the Internet
- Many States Weigh Drug Benefit Cuts For Medicaid
- Kaiser Official Defends Decision To Launch HSAs
- Lowering Copayments Can Improve Quality of Chronic Disease Care
- Overdiagnosing Thyroid Cancer: What's in a name?
- Compensation Complaints: HMO Executives See Smaller Salary Increases
- Lung cancer drug bavituximab flops phase 3 study
- IOM: Workforce Diversity Lacking In Health Care
- Index of /archiveMC/9808
- Lung Cancer Drug Osimertinib (Tagrisso) Meets Primary Endpoint in Phase 3 Trial
- Medicare Gets Serious About Payment Cuts
- Study finds wearable sensors can tell when you're getting sick
- Hospital Board Members Trained on Blues’ Dime
- Value-based Health Care: One Patient's Experience and What Really Matters
- Physicians and Plans Can Get Along
- ‘The Best Is Yet To Come' Managed Care for Affluent Elderly?
- Deathwatch for AHCPR Ends As Funding Mandate Changes
- A Conversation With Dee W. Edington, PhD: Changing Culture To Support Wellness
- A P&T Snapshot of the Nation’s Progress Against Cancer
- N.H. Governor Proposes Bill To Curb Rising HMO Complaints
- Hospital Costs Soar For 10 Procedures
- Where Society Failed, Can Health Plans Succeed?
- medical informatics
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- Has the Time Come for NCQA To Get Tough With HMOs?
- HealthIMPACT Midwest
- Mail Order Pharmacy Saves Money, Says PCMA, but at What Cost?
- Multibiomarker Test for Rheumatoid Arthritis Signals New Approach to Diagnosis
- The Nuka Way
- Ten Practical Pointers For Tracking HEDIS Data
- HIT Decisions Lie on the Horizon, But Savings Remain Elusive
- A pocket guide to conservative think tanks
- Amarin fish Oil drug shows dramatic results skeptics remain
- Clinical and Economic Effects of Coronary Restenosis After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in a Managed Care Population
- Research Articles from Managed Care
- EDs Getting Ready To Step Into Value-based Payment Waters
- ‘Will Prudent Layperson Please Report to the ER'
- Technology Curtails Health Care Fraud
- A Conversation With Peter Lee: Quality Concerns Ensure Consumers Will Gain Clout
- Not so fast judge says about cvs's purchase aetna
- Headlines on Deadline…
- California: Where the premium dollar goes
- One cancer survivor's struggle chemo brain
- P4P: Transitional at Best
- CMO pay raises averaged 9.9% in 2004–2005
- Evaporation of Retiree Benefits May Be Health Plan Opportunity
- Byte by Byte, Harvard Pilgrim Choked on Unhealthy IT Systems
- Alvimopan Hastens Recovery From Abdominal Surgery
- Guideline Clearinghouse Is Dead. Long Live the Guideline Clearinghouse?
- Scientists Treat Parkinson’s Disease With Brain Cell Transplants
- Peace of Mind Comes With a Price: The Battle Over Full-Body Scans
- Many Federal CER Projects Will Benefit Managed Care
- Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy: Cost Effective Pharmacologic Treatments
- Federally Negotiated Drug Prices Anticipated for Medicare Part D
- Kaiser’s EMR Push Pays Off
- Centene big medicaid managed care wants get even bigger
- Eyes on Medicare Program’s House Calls for Comorbid Patients
- Flight to Internet Implies HMOs Were ‘Last Big Thing'
- Medical Home Works For Group Health
- Index of /archives/0003
- Index of /archiveMC/9808
- Psychogenesis and Health Reform 2.0
- Index of /archives/0004
- Anti Cholesteremic
- Steven Peskin MD's blog
- July 1996
- Meaningful Use: Tasty Carrot or Big, Brutal Stick?
- Trust Should Be Thrust of Managed Care System
- Where housing can make big difference it's data analytics
- Study: Brentuximab May Be Curative in Some Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Patients
- Picking Up the Ball That Congress Dropped
- Examining costs of chronic conditions in a Medicaid population
- Physician Credentialing Upheld
- As PacifiCare Retrenches, Is Sale Next?
- Health Plans and Medicare Step Up To Eliminate Costly Variation
- Hospitals Bristle as MedPAC Warns of Controversial Billing Initiative
- Let their fingers do the walking through the health care system
- Primary Care in U.S. Vs. 9 Other Countries
- Two out of Three HMO Members Live in Large Metropolitan Areas
- How Patient-Centered Medical Homes May Change U.S. Medicine
- Medicare Expansion Steps Into the Political Limelight
- How Health Plans Can Catalyze The Precision Medicine Revolution
- A Conversation with Suzanne F. Delbanco, PhD: Employers Enlist Health Plans In Campaign for Payment Reform
- Should Doctors Guarantee Results? Or, Whose Disease Is It, Anyway?
- FDA Ponders How To Regulate Next-Generation Sequencing
- Index of /archives/0003
- What's New Is Old For Home-Health Agencies in U.S.
- A Conversation with Jeanne Scott: We Can't Avoid Tough Decisions Forever
- Anti-infection Push Seems Not to Work
- Lost in translation
- Popular content
- Colorectal Screening Called Inadequate
- Measuring Efficiency of Physician Practices Using Data Envelopment Analysis
- Employers Publish Guide on Prevention's Worth
- Double-digit increases continue for health benefits
- What's An E-Mail Consultation Worth?
- Predicting Alzheimer's combining blood test genetic screening
- May 2000
- Contraceptive Coverage: Fertile Ground for Controversy
- Headlines On Deadline …
- Study shatters big myth about primary care compensation
- Index of /archiveMC/9808
- Will Consumers Exercise Their New Power Wisely?
- Massachusetts Physicians Protest Trend to Profit-Driven Health Care
- Aiming at a Moving Target In Rheumatoid Arthritis
- FDA approves abuse deterrent extended release oxycodone naltrexone troxyca er pain management
- RSV Virology: Understanding RSV Seasonality and the Importance of Local Data
- Specialty societies tell members think twice about those tests
- Leapfrog Group Actions Will Be Felt Throughout the Health Care System
- John's jack linehan epstein becker green copay accumulators
- Patient Deaths Prompt FDA to Halt Trials of Cancer Drug Pacritinib
- February 2008
- What Do You Do About ER Costs?
- Many Federal CER Projects Will Benefit Managed Care
- More consumers have choice of health plans, but is it enough to make HMOs responsive?
- Health Service Vendors Should Work Together as a Team
- Trisomy 21 DNA Test (MaterniT21) for Detecting Down Syndrome in the First Trimester
- Mental Health Parity: A Year Later, Are We There?
- ‘Hospital of Future' Rises in Birmingham
- Welcome to the Brave, New (Electronic) World, Doctor
- Can a Moose Inspire Leadership?
- utilization management
- December 2011
- Improvement seen insurers claims response times
- What Do Physicians Want From Health Plans?
- Vol. 8, No. 6 June 1999
- Prior Authorization for Safety, Not Just for Economy
- A Conversation with the Dartmouth Atlas Project’s Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH
- Surprise! Little difference between HMO, indemnity lengths of stay
- It’s Better To Light a Candle…
- High-deductible health plans favored by individual purchasers
- Beating Obesity Begins By Expanding Tort Reform
- To Cure Risk Aversion, Employers Eye Risk Adjustment
- Recently introduced generics helped PBM control its costs
- Give Us Defined Contribution, Say Workers in Survey
- Get ready democratic debates tonight and tomorrow night
- Too Many Books: How To Tell the Best Cooks?
- When Success Sours: PBMs Under Scrutiny
- When It Comes to New Drugs, If Providers and Payers Snooze, They Lose
- An Emergency Physician’s Complaint: ‘Your Patients Are Costing Me Money!’
- Some Elderly Not Helped by Guidelines
- Bipartisan Bill Gains Momentum, Worries Industry
- 12 DM Trends You Should Know About
- Clinical decision support software can warn potential stroke
- TennCare Gets Higher Marks for Care Than for Administration and Funding
- FDA wants more closely monitor stem cell treatment industry
- How pharma companies manipulate orphan drug rule create monopolies
- Internet on Center Stage At Technology Conference
- Accrediting Agencies Turn Attention To Consumer-Directed Health Plans
- Drug Shortages in EDs Have Increased More Than 400%
- Prediabetes: Pre- Does Not Mean Preordained
- Index of /archives/0005
- Researchers develop new drug delivery strategy pain relief
- Beware of the Drug Shortage Domino Effect
- Direct Contracting: Why It Hasn't Grown
- Death disease management finally
- Biologics Debate Heats Up Between FDA, NCCN
- In New York State, Employers Launch Quality Consortium
- Hammurabi's Managed Health Care — Circa 1700 B.C.
- Prompt-Payment Laws Don't Get to Heart of Matter
- Is Your Practice Overstaffed?
- Advancing Drug Trend Management in the Medical Benefit
- Alzheimer’s Affects Women Differently
- Budget Impact Analysis to Estimate the Cost Dynamics of Treating Refractory Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease With Radiofrequency Energy: a Payer Perspective
- Employer-backed insurance gets nonpartisan nod
- Cancer pill not taken costs insurers long run
- Persuade the HMO That a Contract Change You Propose Is Also In the Plan's Interest
- Making a Case for a Single-Payer System
- Taking the Lead for Accountability
- Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis Patients Can Look to Second Oral Agent
- Oncologists Plead For Fairer Drug Payments
- NCQA Takes Initial Steps To Examine Quality of PPOs
- Profitable Or Pointless? Maximize Your Conference Take-Away
- Node viewcount
- 6 HMOs make 1999 Sachs Honor Roll
- Goals 2000: For HMOs: Administrative Retooling For MDs: Managerial Competency
- Public spending on health care to accelerate
- Payer and Provider Collaborations that Improve Quality Outcomes in Oncology
- 80 percent of hospitalized kids prescribed off-label drugs
- Promising Results Reported for Pharmaceutical-Grade Biotin in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Study shows promise precision screening familial hypercholesterolemia
- Drug tier coverage differs by plan type
- Research Articles from Managed Care
- Disrupt yourself or be disrupted insurers role changing business model
- Health Reform and the Use of Financial Incentives in Wellness Programs
- New Drug Entresto for Heart Failure Drums Up a Lot of Enthusiasm
- PCS Can Be Had, Maybe for Less Than a Year Ago
- New phase 3 data shingles vaccine shingrix presented cdc advisory meeting
- The Weight Debate
- A Conversation with Jeanne Scott: We Can't Avoid Tough Decisions Forever
- Wendell Potter: Not-for-Profit Health Insurers Will Come to Dominate the Market
- Is managed care losing its coercive power?
- Compliance Planning's Better Than Fraud, Abuse Insurance
- September 2012
- Getting More for Our Health Care Dollar
- Why drug prices will continue to roil the waters-and why Scott Gottlieb, MD, will be in the center of the action
- Doing the MACRA-ena: Will the celebrations continue in 2016?
- The new president of the American Pharmaceutical Association foresees greater cooperation between pharmacists, physicians, and health plans.
- Focus on the Patent Cliff To Maximize Generic Savings
- Medical Device Market To Hit $133 Billion by 2016
- Anthem's Bid Latest in Blues Consolidation
- HIV: A Fragile Population Enters Managed Care
- PBMs Pumping Brakes on Autoimmune Drug Expenditures
- First treatment adult chronic rhinosinusitis nasal polyps
- Creativity Required Equally In Short Run and Long Run
- Predicting MCOs' Future By Learning From the Past
- Premium Hikes Slow As Plans Seek Members
- PPOs: Time for a reality check
- Improved Adherence Highlights Specialty Pharmacy’s Potential
- HIPAA Affects Docs' Response To Subpoenas for Medical Data
- Drug Pricing Regulation Pushed From Many Sides
- Beware of the Drug Shortage Domino Effect
- Index of /archiveMC/9808
- Marino withdraws consideration us drug czar
- Medco, Consumers Union Face the Music and Dance
- Physician Board Certification Isn’t What It Used to Be
- Liver cancer drug lenvima succeeds phase 3 trial
- High-Deductible Health Plans See Less Emergency Room Use
- Catheter-Delivered Aortic Valve Avoids Major Invasive Surgery
- Computer-aided Multispectral Digital Analysis (MelaFind) for Assessing Atypical Skin Lesions
- Data Access Technology Puts Physicians Under Microscope
- Keeping Unemployed Covered In Managed Care’s Interest
- Health plans pay less when PBM owns mail-order pharmacy
- 5 Product Engineering Methods To Use in Health Care Management
- Is Selective Use of Palivizumab Appropriate in Premature Infants?
- Medical debt found to hinder access
- 2019 February
- Risk Pays Off Under HCFA's New Medicare Scheme
- Rise of the PHR
- Should Uncle Sam Insure Us All?
- Another PBM Sold As Express Scripts Buys Diversified
- Blogs
- Regulators Take More Interest In Role of PBMs in Health Care
- Scott gottlieb confirmed FDA commissioner
- 2005
- HMOs' Delicate Balancing Act: The Art of Setting Copayments
- The Ongoing Evolution of Endpoints in Oncology
- Nurses Join the Executive Pool
- New monotherapy approved HCC patients
- Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Flu?
- 24 States Hope Pharmacy Plus Helps Medicaid
- HMO Incentives Not Grounds for Suit U.S. Supreme Court Rules Unanimously
- Some Plans May Prosper Despite Medicare Advantage Cuts
- Farewell, Dr. Solo
- Headlines On Deadline…
- Why I Am Optimistic
- A Modest, Not Satirical, Proposal For Assisted-Suicide Decisions
- New RFI Helps Employers Rank Plans, Push Quality
- Strengthening interviewing skills
- CMS puts positive spin on first-year results for Pioneer ACOs
- Hey, Big Spender! Why Does Your Quality Lag So Far Behind Other Countries?
- What makes a medical practice successful?
- July 2002
- Praluent Cuts Cardiac Events, Deaths in High-Risk Patients
- Opioid Use Patterns and Health Care Resource Utilization in Patients Prescribed Opioid Therapy With and Without Constipation
- Privacy Legislation Is on Track; Could It Derail DM Programs?
- Under Azar and Boehler, CMMI Gets Its Groove Back
- Supplement
- Preparing your ACO downside risk success
- A Health Care Consumer Gender Gap
- Erenumab shows promise treatment chronic migraine
- Ready use rescue pen successfully treats hypoglycemia diabetes patients
- You've Got a Friend
- HMOs Defect From Medicare, Decry Drug Rider
- State legislatures spring ahead with restrictions on drug copay accumulators
- Electronic Medical Records: If Not Now, When?
- Primary care physicians' compensation better reflects productivity
- 2008 fairly good year seen health plans
- Report: Health Care Institutions Take Financial Hit From EHR Implementations
- Doctors Struggle With Medical Marijuana Knowledge Gap
- A Conversation with Jim Astuto: This Businessman Wants Quality You Can Measure
- Briefly Noted
- Can a Moose Inspire Leadership?
- Pharmacy Management Issues Proliferate Along With the Drugs
- Few Americans Use In-Store Clinics
- Indirect Costs: Asking plans to keep employees on the job
- Avaleres bentley snf care fundamentally changing because payment changes
- Headlines on Deadline…
- Immunotherapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer: A Novel Treatment Option to Improve Survival
- Hospital profit margins grow while length of stay decreases
- Study finds estrogen signaling impacts immune response across cancer types
- April 2005
- Health care mergers and acquisitions decline in 1998
- MANAGED CARE SEPTEMBER 2017
- Association Health Plans High on Bush's '03 Agenda
- Gottlieb colleagues peter bach crew biologics are not natural monopolym
- Health Plans Walk a Clinical Tightrope When Treating Adolescents for Depression
- High tech drug packaging can boost patient compliance
- California Orders Drugs Restored To 6 Formularies
- National Mental Health Parity Bill Poised To Pass This Time Around
- Study: No Improvements With Losmapimod After Heart Attack
- Karl Brown’s Hardscrabble Roots Prepared Him for His Medicaid Mission
- Workers Fixated On Retirement, Not Health Care
- Tau Vaccine for Alzheimer’s Disease Enters Mid-Stage Trial
- Vol. 6, No. 11 November 1997
- How much trouble does health care marketing cause?
- Orphan drugs to account for 19% of sales by 2020 Orphan drugs to account for 19% of sales by 2020
- Hospitals may see plans their new confidant
- A Conversation With Lee N. Newcomer, MD, MHA: Payments With Purpose
- Nonaddictive, Nonsedating Pain Medication Shows Promise in Diabetic Neuropathy
- Attention to Detail Crucial in Designing A DM Program
- KP/Calif. Must Cover Viagra
- Trumpcare doesn't have votes needed pass
- Stark II: Division of Profits Comes Under Closer Scrutiny
- Vol. 8, No. 11 November 1999
- Single and family enrollment in high-premium plans
- Meet Peter Thiel, the Billionaire Who Guides Trump on Health Care Appointments
- Insurers Slow to Adopt Social Media Practices
- More Doc Visits Good for Diabetics
- America’s Health Care Problems? The Solutions Exist. A Conversation with Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA
- New Therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Offers Modest Bang for Pharmaceutical Buck
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- Managed Care Again Seen on Capitol Hill As Ripe for Reform
- Research Articles from Managed Care
- Wellness programs: no longer just an add-on
- Money isn't everything
- “White-bagging” creates difficulties for providers and patients
- Health Plans Seem Supportive of Depression-Screening Push
- Chiropractor-Directed Care Could Boost Costs by 30%
- Will managed care mimic fee-for-service?
- Three Groups Say They'll Coordinate Accreditations
- 3 Social Determinants Strategies
- A Conversation With Emad Rizk, MD: Disease Management Beyond the Call Center
- Premiums increase only little next year besieged resilient obamacare
- First discovery us colistin resistance human e-coli infection
- AMCP Seeks an End to 20 Years of Confusion Over FDAMA Section 114
- A Conversation With Bruce Bagley, MD: Doctors, Too, Must Embrace Data Reporting and Analysis
- Second biosimilar humira receives FDA approval
- Compensation, patient-care time vary widely by practice size
- March 1998
- OIG Approves ‘Safe Harbors' For Ambulatory Surgery Centers
- Amazon, berkshire, hathaway and jp morgan chase project
- Health Care Resource Utilization and Costs Associated with Restless Legs Syndrome Among Managed Care Enrollees Treated With Dopamine Agonists
- Medical Home Is Common Ground for BCBS/NC and Provider Group
- Legislation and regulation
- FDA accepts Application als Drug edaravone
- Can Amylin Analogue Lead To Better Diabetes Control?
- Newly Hired Auto Workers Will Test ‘Try It, You'll Like It' Intro to HMOs
- Worker Wariness Stifles Telehealth’s Acceptance
- Despite the Reform Law, Don’t Write Off Single Payer
- Cover Story
- December 2012
- Health Care Utilization & Costs For Cystic Fibrosis Patients with Pulmonary Infections
- Distributors Offer New Beginning To Medication Management Therapy
- Imaging Agents That Identify Alzheimer’s Disease on the Way
- COBRA's prohibitive costs prevent access to pharmacy
- Employer health costs rise only 3% for 1997
- JCAHO Agrees To Observe CARF Accreditations
- Headlines On Deadline…
- Medicare proposes first mandatory bundled payments cardiac care
- PDP drug costs are higher than employer plans
- Research Articles from Managed Care
- What Do We Mean By ‘Patient Engagement'?
- Hospital use powerful antibiotics rise
- Contact capitation and its cousins
- US judge invalidates allergan patents restasis
- Twilight for Fee for Service?
- Telehealth Business: Boom Times, but Profits May Wait
- JAMA Study Challenges Key HEDIS Diabetes Measure
- Giving More Than a Nod To the Wave of the Future
- NCQA Delays Standards for Behavioral Care
- Generic viagra tablets now available us
- Mobile app helps patients opioid use disorder remain recovery
- Medicare Spending Dips For First Time
- ‘Population-Based,’ Meet ‘Patient-Centered’
- FDA Gives Breakthrough Therapy Status to MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD
- New Study Suggests Older Stent Better Than New
- Persistence Key In Blues Battle Against Fraud
- Wearing Black Hats … Again
- Clinical Brief: A Single Tablet to Help Manage Patients With Hypertension and Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors
- Could a Wal-Mart PBM Succeed?
- September 2011
- Advances in HIV/AIDS Care Require Hard Choices
- Research Articles from Managed Care
- Where physician executives can expect the best pay
- Hospitalists Make It Look Easy
- Assessing clinical outcomes and cost transforming dyslipidemia management
- Zika linked birth defects more extensive than previously thought – UCLA-led research finds
- Will therapeutic interchange be put limits states?
- Health Reform Debate Overlooks Physician-Patient Dynamic
- A Conversation with Lee N. Newcomer, M.D.: Out of the Frying Pan Onto the Cutting Edge
- Headlines On Deadline…
- Potential zika virus risk estimated 50 US cities
- The Amazon / Berkshire / JPMorgan heath care company: Why this is a big deal—and why it’s not.
- New Agents Regulating Tyrosine Kinase Can Be Used Against Several Cancers
- Is There a Doctor in the House?
- With More Enthusiasm Than Money, Brailer Pushes Nationwide EMR System
- Pharmacist care idea whose time still coming
- Medicaid fees rise, but still below Medicare
- Could QALYs Help in Assessing High-Priced Cancer Treatments?
- SDOH Spenders Spawn SDOH Vendors
- Physician Financial Incentives: Another UM Tool Bites the Dust
- Cost Differences Between Open and Minimally Invasive Surgery
- ‘New’ Health Care Organizations Will Truly Manage Care
- Is Home Infusion Ready for Prime Time?
- Hospitals give payers low marks on image, reputation
- Texas Case Tests Whether HMOs Can Be Sued
- Making Pharmacoeconomics In Formulary Development a Reality
- Kaiser permanente goes all out provide access wellness
- Medicaid HMO enrollment up
- PBM Industry Today: Who's Managing Drug Costs?
- Funding Up for Grabs in Medicare Advantage
- Vol. 9, No. 6 June 2000
- Specialized support programs increase treatment adherence, reducing relapses for multiple sclerosis patients
- Supreme court hears ACA risk corridor case
- Tilt of Senate to Democrats Speeded Debate on Patients' Rights
- Massive Databases Under Construction
- Doc Execs Give Consumer Ratings Sites an ‘F’
- The Big Contradiction At Managed Care's Heart
- Four one pill cuts heart and stroke risks
- Cancer Immunotherapies–and Their Cost–Take Center Stage at ASCO's 2015 Annual Meeting
- Experts Launch Antibiotic Stewardship Playbook
- 1 Carrot Replaces Another, And So It Shall Always Be
- Three Principles for Improving Health Care Delivery
- Consumer-Oriented Health Plan Measures Drag in Congress, Get Push from Clinton
- 3 ACA taxes slated repeal spending bill
- Mixed Results Reported for Venetoclax (Venclexta) in AML Patients
- Genetic Testing: Major Opportunity, Major Problems
- Managed Care Trends in Statin Usage
- Advance of Technology Still Seen as System's Savior
- Oncologists: FDA needs to speed up approval of cancer-fighting drugs
- The 2016 election season: Democrats to play D while GOP devises a game plan
- High Administrative Costs and Low Enrollment Led To the Demise of Startup Insurer Crystal Run
- Old Saying Appropriate For Current Environment
- Why Market Competition Will Not Mend Our Health Care System
- How Managed Care Affects the Malpractice Liability Problem
- Making Accountability Key in Health Care
- Patients’ and physicians’ satisfaction with a pharmacist managed anticoagulation clinic
- A Conversation with Lucian Leape, M.D.: Moving Beyond A Punitive Mind-Set
- Rise in employer-based coverage spurs drop in ranks of uninsured
- Do You Always Make Sure Patients Get Test Results?
- Diabetes Disease Management in a Community-Based Setting
- Recently-Approved Sapropterin Reduces Phenylalanine Levels
- Commercial insurers saying ‘no' to hospitals more often
- Avoid Drug-Marketing Traps
- Purchasers to Insurers: Standardize Your ACO Measures
- Engaged Consumers’ Decisions Help Aetna’s CDHP Program Save
- Consensus Eludes Medicare Commission As Deadline for Recommendations Nears
- Who Is For and Against the Latest PPACA Repeal Bill
- Half of Americans could be obese by 2030
- If congress won't salvage reinsurance state waivers may offer workaround
- May 2011
- Anti-infection Push Seems Not to Work
- Demystifying Pathways in Oncology
- Embattled Theranos Voids Two Years of Blood Test Results
- Doctors claim have effective new treatment deadly sepsis
- Providers lag in ICD-10 readiness
- Gaucher’s Disease Treatment Option Rides on Carrot Cells’ Biologic Power
- FDA advisors recommend approval oxycodone naltrexone extended release capsules
- How to Dramatically Decrease Your MCO’s Rx Coverage Costs
- Patients Slammed With Huge Ambulance Costs Because Insurers, Ambulance Companies Can’t Negotiate Contracts
- CDC eyes zika link guillain barre syndrome puerto rico
- Research Articles from Managed Care
- Incretin hormones poised better control diabetes
- Insurers Expand Usefulness of Oncology Pathway Efforts
- More Will Be Expected of Pharmacists
- Amazon making moves disrupt health care industry
- October 2006
- Keytruda Crosses First-Line Finish Line First
- Sticker shock waves: Players to respond to drug priciness
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- Blood Clots Dent Hopes for Hemophilia Drug Emicizumab
- FDA won't approve ataluren PTC therapeutics appeal
- A Conversation With Bruce Bagley, MD: Doctors, Too, Must Embrace Data Reporting and Analysis
- Evolution of TennCare Yields Valuable Lessons
- Reform Bill's OK Prompts Clashes, Dire Predictions
- Aimovig for Migraine Prevention: The New Kid May Have Trouble Fitting In
- U.S. Women's Health: Not So Great
- FDA Approves Hypertension Drug Byvalson (Nebivolol/Valsartan)
- Briefly Noted
- House passes drug price negotiating bill
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- Just What Causes Health Care Inflation?
- Consumer-Directed Plans Begin Measuring Patient Satisfaction
- May 2015
- Keep Peace in Your Practice
- A Conversation with Rodney G. Hood, M.D.: Fighting Invisible Barriers To Equitable Health Care
- Federal and State Governments Pressed to Give Tax Breaks For Wellness Initiatives
- Gives Some Pause About Checkpoint Inhibitors: Possible Link to Type 1 Diabetes
- A Conversation with Rodney G. Hood, M.D.
- Some insurers ACA exchanges plan hike premiums 30
- Tennessee Gives Medicaid Program New Lease on Life
- Doc Data Oversight Crucial for Medicaid
- Small businesses use aggressive tactics to keep benefit costs down
- NCQA Launches Effort To Accredit DM Programs
- Prescription Drug Talk Cooled Off Faster Than a Texas Thunderstorm
- Some State Medicaid Programs Still Block or Limit Hep C Drugs
- Put away that carrot and stick
- New glucose monitoring system lets patients avoid fingerstick
- Hospitals dangerous workers health
- George J. Isham, MD: In Best of All Possible Worlds Health Care Acts on IOM Report
- Health care management companys experience palivizumab
- Medicare Commission Punts After It Agrees Only to Disagree
- Headlines On Deadline …
- Inpatient Rehab Facilities Benefit Post-Stroke Care
- After Viagra Fuss, Women's Groups Say ‘Help Us, Too'
- Mental Health Parity Gets Closer to Reality
- Would IRP Make Plans Chirp Over Savings?
- Beating Obesity Begins By Expanding Tort Reform
- 4 Ways Hospitals Can Use Their Pharmacies To Cut Costs, Improve Care
- SNFs Need Real-Time Data
- HMOs Have Stake in Quelling Anger at Drug Store Counters
- EMR or EHR?
- More emphasis wellness
- Go Carefully When Measuring Quality
- NCQA Rankings Give Edge to Not-For-Profit Insurers
- The Department of Managed Care
- To Cure Risk Aversion, Employers Eye Risk Adjustment
- Medical groups can receive 2% bonus from CMS
- Will Integrity of HEDIS Data Improve with '98 Version?
- Payers Struggle to Ensure High Level of Adherence to Costly Specialty Drugs
- High-Tech Imaging Used Increasingly
- Occupy the OR
- Court bans manufacturing drugs alabama company
- Value based insurance design might help medicare cut costs
- Medication Therapy Management — Not Just for Seniors Anymore
- how special are specialty drugs if they are most drug spending
- Monoclonal Antibody Now Available to Prevent Red Blood Cell Breakdown
- Does the Doctor-Patient Relationship Mean More to Doctors than Patients?
- HMOs, employers happier with their PBMs
- Mergers may stifle ma competition
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- Despite Kaiser Settlement Guidelines on Web Unlikely
- American Nurses Association
- Artificial Disc Now Available, But Is It Better Than Other Therapies?
- Employer-based coverage makes gains, while gaining confidence of Americans
- FDA Accepts Application for Extended-Release Oxycodone (Remoxy)
- Wellness
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- An Evidence-Based Approach To Care Depends on All Parties — Physicians Included
- Long-Term Safety Data Support Use of Bronchial Thermoplasty
- HMO Incentives Not Grounds for Suit U.S. Supreme Court Rules Unanimously
- Don’t Overlook Importance of Pharm Benefits in CDHPs
- PDP drug costs are higher than employer plans
- Orphan Disease Gains Second Treatment Option
- Zetia study keeps PCSK9s on approval course
- Biologics among fastest growers
- ‘I want what I want, or I'm outta here'
- Kids’ health coverage a continuing bright spot
- Segal sees little change in plan cost trends
- Providers enlisted to curtail waste
- Molina Watches the Kids While Mom Gets Examined
- Primary care physicians absorb managed care's impact
- Vol. 7, No. 7 July 1998
- Physicians want to fit in
- Employers, HMOs weigh in on PBM satisfaction
- Health Plans Slow To Adopt Outpatient Prospective Payment
- Program Lets Patients Rate Doctors Online
- Health Care Reform Fails If Public Won’t Stay the Course
- Why Is It So Tough to Deliver On E-Prescribing’s Promise?
- How blockchain has strange bedfellows singing kumbaya
- Sagging Fortunes Cited in Departure Of Humana's CEO
- Harden Hearts
- Nivolumab (Opdivo) Flunks Lung Cancer Trial
- New Imaging Controls Strict, But May Be Easier on Doctors
- AHIP’s Karen Ignagni: Health Insurers Will Continue to Innovate
- Docs Still Prefer Volume Over Value
- Health Care Needs To Catch Up
- Which grows faster: grass or compensation?
- JCAHO Agrees To Observe CARF Accreditations
- Exploring spectrum cardiovascular care
- Readers Believe Biosimilars Will Be Effective Against Costs
- It's Time for CMS to Release Physician Medicare Claim Information
- Survey: Workers Not Guided When Choosing Care
- FDA authorizes new type test drug
- Why marijuana is headed for the mainstream
- Justice department announces largest takedown health care scammers
- Can Consolidation Work In Favor of Improved Care?
- Texas Bill Would Let Ob/Gyns Be Primary Care Physicians
- HMO profits up, but at a much slower rate
- They Wrote the Book On Fixing the System
- Boston scientific receives approval vercise deep brain stimulation system
- Primary care gains over 3 years
- Costs of biologics for inflammatory conditions vary
- Physicians' real income continues to fall
- Specialty Agents With Expedited Approval May Fuel 2015 Pharmacy Costs
- Today’s technology can facilitate collaborative network management
- Pharmaceuticals
- Humana Thinks Premium Cap Sets Plan Apart
- Healthcare IT Costs in 2015 Rose to $32,500 per Physician
- Are New Liability Caps Working?
- FDA fast tracks drug rare autoimmune lung disorder
- MD Anderson's Hahn Tapped for FDA Commissioner Post
- Pharmacist employment outlook rosy
- Viagra linked reduced heart attack risk and improved heart attack survival
- Alzheimer’s drug costs likely to rise as boomers age
- Too much variety in pay-for-performance programs?
- Too Early To Write Obituary For Patients' Bill of Rights
- Drug approved treat duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Hospitalists Are Changing Care Both in And Outside the Hospital
- Physicians Must Create Their Own HMOs
- Molina Healthcare Investigates Possible Theft of Patient Information
- Medical devices works would tackle obesity new ways
- Physician Practices Hiring Care Coordinators
- Medicare's P4P Program Under Fire Before It Has Begun
- Convenience comes Health care
- Employers Starting To Hold HMOs Accountable for Quality
- Headlines On Deadline…
- Managed Medicare's Rapid Expansion
- Vol. 9, No. 9 September 2000
- ISSUE JANUARY 2018
- 4 Steps to Boost Your Medicare Star Ratings and Retain Your Customers
- Drug interactions plague elderly cancer patients
- Choking Off a Tumor's Blood Supply
- Semaglutide posts promising results phase 3a diabetes trial
- Statin Therapy: More Than Meets the Eye?
- INSIGHTS FROM AN OUTCOMES RESEARCHER
- What Makes Harvard Pilgrim So Good?
- How blockchain has strange bedfellows singing kumbaya
- ACP's split decision we're favor single payer or maybe public option
- The app as a remedy for health care’s inbetweenies
- HPV Vaccine Study Allays Concerns
- New hope for newborns with rare deforming disease
- Defined Contribution: Threat… or Fad?
- Health Care Resource Use and Costs Pre- and Post-Treatment Initiation With Linaclotide: Retrospective Analyses of a U.S. Insured Population
- You Will Live Healthily!
- The Right Way To Apply Noncompete Provisions
- Companies Search For Ways To Pass Costs on to Employees
- Plans Confident They Can Handle Exchanges
- Docs distrust ‘pay for performance'
- DC maryland blues plans come together
- Omidria intraocular solution receives approval use pediatric patients
- Health Care Resource Use and Costs Pre- and Post-Treatment Initiation With Linaclotide: Retrospective Analyses of a U.S. Insured Population
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- Fix medicare it bankrupts country
- Massachusetts physicians protest trend profit driven health care
- Medicare Fraud Initiative Makes Strange Bedfellows
- Prying Eyes Push Against Boundary of Medical Privacy
- PPOs continue to make enrollment gains
- Battlefield invention stop blood loss could save lives civilian trauma cases
- McAllen Texas, Revisited: BCBS Saves More Than Medicare
- PPOs: A Better Brand of Managed Care?
- When Value Is in the Eye Of the Patient
- ‘Broken’ American Health Care: Good People, Bad System, and The Health Powers of the Disruptors
- New Drug Application Submitted for Once-Daily Baricitinib for RA Patients
- Public policy
- CMS hybrid payment system shows promise
- Employers' Stock in Wellness Rises With No End in Sight
- Most HSA/HDHPs Cover Preventive Treatment on a First-Dollar Basis
- Direct Contracting: Why It Hasn't Grown
- Headlines At Deadline…
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- Headlines On Deadline …
- Gum Control: Should the Medical Benefit Cover Some Dental Services?
- Insurers Find Small Gains In Weight Control With Belviq
- Can Insurer, Oncology Practice Really Work Together?
- States Defy Federal Directive Requiring Medicaid To Cover Viagra
- Plans Don’t Applaud Healthy Americans Act
- Families Often Miss Out On Free Care for Children
- ERISA Proposes Using TPAs
- Now Might Be the Right Time To Kill Hospital Value-based Purchasing Program
- More red ink black
- Employers more willing to pass benefit costs along
- Real Story in CalPERS Talks Lies Beyond the Headlines
- Neck and Neck and Neck and Neck: 4 Contenders Similar on Health Care
- Blues, AMA Offer Guide for Peace to Docs, HMOs
- Telehealth calling will health care system have answers
- Management Partnerships (‘ACO Enablers’) Are Pervasive Part of ACOs
- Will New Benefit Design Harm Some Patients?
- Following the Leaders
- Headlines on Deadline…
- Will Merger Talks Be the Next Step For Group Health and Kaiser Permanente?
- Anticholinergic drugs may increase dementia risk
- Payers: Expect to feel a double-team pinch
- NCQA: Member satisfaction and clinical quality related
- smoking
- CDC begins provide resources workplace wellness programs
- 75 nation's hospitals lack palliative care teams
- Could QALYs Help in Assessing High-Priced Cancer Treatments?
- FDA approves yescarta first car t cell therapy lymphoma
- A Conversation with Paul Fronstin, PhD: Current Crop of Consumer-Directed Plans More ‘Lite' Than ‘Heavy'
- data management
- Specialized Biomarkers Aid in Tumor Cell Imaging
- How Rebates, Copayments, and Administration Costs Affect the Cost-effectiveness of Osteoporosis Therapies
- Necessity of Payment Reform May Mother Big Data Into Being
- FDA approves symdeko treat underlying cause cystic fibrosis certain patients
- PPO Performance Hard To Gauge; Comparisons to HMOs Not Reliable
- Pay scales suggest mom was right
- Managed Care Prepares For the Worst
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- Elderly Achieve Better Health When Reporting Vital Signs on Web
- Value based care gets chance be present creation
- 1 Carrot Replaces Another, And So It Shall Always Be
- Novel Devices for Delivering Diabetes Medications: Their Value and Some Coverage Considerations
- The Problem With Our Health Care Cost Crisis? Hint: It Has Nothing to Do With Providers
- Are Health Plans Responding To Primary Care Shortage?
- New Diabetes Medications Drive Up Costs And Stymie Formulary Design
- E-Health Gives Kaiser Role In Bioterror Fight
- Index of /archives/0005
- Employers Move Into Primary Care
- Go West, young pharmacist
- Will Biomarkers Be Next Leap Forward in RA?
- Cost-Sharing Effects on Adherence and Persistence For Second-Generation Antipsychotics In Commercially Insured Patients
- Blues Plan Helps Practices Get Up to Speed for PCMHs
- More Young Adults Using Sleep Aids
- HPV Vaccine Goes Underused
- New drug approved relapsing forms multiple sclerosis adults
- Autopsy Reveals Patient Rights Legislation May Have Been Dead for Several Months
- Headlines On Deadline …
- Some PCPs Are Worried Sick About Patients
- Health Plans by Design, Not by Default
- HMO Liability Battleground Moving to Courts, Statehouse
- Vision Plans Hope to Gain Access To State Insurance Exchanges
- Virtual vs. Actual Networks
- Who’s Tackling Rampant Overutilization? Health Plans!
- https://www.managedcaremag.com/linkout/2013/4/13
- New Feature Focuses on Biotechnology Issues
- Accountable care organiszations get different look olde england
- Employers Show New Interest In Private Insurance Exchanges
- Medicare to cut physician pay — maybe
- Malarial Organisms Traced to Age of Dinosaurs
- Will Bigger Mean Better As AAHP, HIAA Merge?
- CBO Report: Nongroup market will be stable, younger, & healthier under the AHCA. The flip side: older, sicker people may be priced out.
- August 2007
- Predictive Modeling & Genomics: Marriage of Promise and Risk
- Premiums Shrink Under Reform Plan
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- When Falling in Love Falls Out of Bounds
- Risk factors identified patient patient transmission resistant bacteria
- Some generics cost more brand drugs medicare beneficiaries
- Congress mulls major drug pricing proposals
- ‘Prenuptial' Planning for Your Next Managed Care Contract
- China Gears Up to Approve Its First Drug for Advanced Colon Cancer
- ISSUE APRIL 2018
- E-cigarette policy making should e-cigarettes use be reasonable alternative
- A Conversation With Jonathan Weiner, DrPH: Mixing Population-Based Care With Market Controls
- Study: Full Medication Adherence Reduces Costs in CVD Patients
- Mental Disorders In Children Soar
- HMO members happier than those in POS plans
- Small Hospitals Face Heavy Weather
- Eleven insurers want share their telemedicine data CBO
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- N.H. Plan Covers Uninsured, Taps Small Businesses
- Medicare holds down physician pay
- An App a Day
- Anthem offers money educated consumers
- Briefly Noted
- Anti inflammatory drugs may help depression
- The Elusive Culture of Health
- Our Readers Pummel Managed Health Care
- HEDIS Performance: Routine reporting drives improvement
- As managed care control loosens, hospital costs outpace pharmacy
- Can Administration Find Cure For Medicare+Choice Ills?
- An Evaluation of Healing Metrics Associated With Commonly Used Advanced Wound Care Products For the Treatment of Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcers
- Physician retention programs gain acceptance
- Index of /archiveMC/9704
- The Role of Proteomic Testing in Improving Prognosis And Care Planning Quality Measures for Lung Cancer
- Don’t Get Caught By PBMs’ MAC Mousetraps
- Tufts Offers Its Workers Short Commute to Care
- Modified HIPAA Privacy Rule Affects Research, Marketing, Security
- Health Service Vendors Should Work Together as a Team
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- A Sound Proposal, But Look at the Implications
- ICD-10 Delayed For Two Years
- As Premium Hikes Slow, Some Brace for Famine
- The Uberization of American Health Care: Why We Need a Disruptive Model
- How To Combat Pharma’s Costly Coupon Programs
- Higher salaries go to clinical executives who hold business degrees (except MPH)
- Providers health care trenches use design thinking spur innovation
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- Pharmacists Can Be Crucial To Medical Home
- Reducing Therapeutic Duplication Successful at the Dispensing Level
- FDA expands invokamet label include first line treatment adults type 2 diabetes
- HHS Seems To Soften Hard Line on Kickbacks
- Free Statins Disrupt Pharmacy Benefit Plans
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- Managed Care's Prospects in the Health Reform Era
- Survey obamacare changes favored 2-1 health care leaders over repeal and replace
- Ohio struggles to rescue managed Medicaid program
- Minnesota Blues To Keep Proceeds From Tobacco Suit
- Vol. 5, No. 8 August 1996
- IOM Opens Eyes On Medical Errors; Support Promised
- What's Good for the VHA Is Not So Good for Medicare
- Should physicians dispense drugs?
- Physician Practices Hiring Care Coordinators
- Segal sees little change in plan cost trends
- August 2015
- Arizona's High Court Says UR Denials Are Medical, Not Insurance, Decisions
- Managed Medicaid Business Might Be Worth the Difficulties
- Medical costs, utilization rates decline again
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- Should Physician Entrepreneurs Be Held to Professional Standards?
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- FDA approves nerlynx reduce risk breast cancer returning
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- Provider-administered drugs move to specialty pharmacy benefit
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- Which grows faster: grass or compensation?
- July 2004
- More Data in Health Care Will Enable Predictive Modeling Advances
- FDA expands use prevnar 13 pneumonia vaccine
- Victoza wins FDA indication reduce risk 3 cardiovascular events
- Matthew Holt: Internet Pundit Thrives on the Biggest Issues
- Tuning in to Telemedicine
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- Novartis may face criminal charges over alleged data manipulation
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- Not-for-Profit Group of Plans Goes After Medicine's Holy Grail
- What If?
- For Narrow Networks, Fresh Scrutiny: Can They Pass the Adequacy Test?
- Keep Benefit Summaries Simple
- What Are Gut Bacteria Doing in Critically Ill Lungs?
- Insurers Can Help Advance Pediatric Cancer Research
- New service links distant hmos covering far flung employees
- Ups and Downs at ASCO 2014
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- All insurers face similar spending growth
- Managed care makes room for the elderly and the poor
- CMS Plans to Ban Theranos Founder From Blood-Testing Business
- ‘Doctors take oaths, lawyers take money'
- Ohio Medical Group Hacked, More Than 100,000 Documents Stolen
- Excess weight gain and elevated blood sugar pregnancy imprint childhood obesity
- Tracking Disparities in Care
- October 1998
- Fewer Recurrent Infections of C. difficile Seen With Fidaxomicin
- One Physician's System For Reporting Test Results
- Savvy Patients Could Drive Costs Up
- Physician-owned practices benefit from diverse mix of specialists
- Community-Based Research: Not Just for Pharmaceuticals
- Meaningful Use: Tasty Carrot or Big, Brutal Stick?
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- AMAP in Limbo; When Will Quality Really Catch Fire?
- Do You Always Make Sure Patients Get Test Results?
- Demand's cool for primary care physicians
- Research Articles from Managed Care
- Physician incomes rise in academia
- New Wheelchair Design Improves Maneuverability
- Cut Pharmaceutical Costs, But Mind the Legal Dangers
- August 2001
- Jill R. Horwitz, JD, PhD: Workplace Wellness Programs Shift Costs to Unhealthy Workers
- Where’s Atul? Gawande Pulls Out From Giving HIMSS Keynote Address
- Are Gatekeepers Failing To Control Specialty Costs?
- Don't forget take care vet
- Preventive Care: Can We Do a Better Job?
- FDA says no new indication ezetimibe zetia and ezetimibe simvastatin vytorin
- FDA grants priority review copanlisib treatment follicular lymphoma
- ICD-10 Code Change Is Long Overdue
- Alan T. Wright, MD: He Wants AdvancePCS to Manage More Than Drugs
- How Plans Do–and Don't– Reward the ‘Best' Physicians
- On or off track? 2016 could be the year that value-based payment arrives – or maybe not
- Study: Push for CDHPs Runs Low on Information
- Vol. 5, No. 7 July 1996
- Plans continue to raise copayments
- Consumer-Directed Plans Fall Short of Expectation
- Specialist Pharmacists Make Adherence Matter
- The Formulary Files
- Gain the ‘Quality' Edge In Competing for Contracts
- Technology's Good and Ill Effects
- FDA approves first implant treat opioid addiction
- Alirocumab praluent succeeds cholesterol study
- Are Gatekeepers Failing To Control Specialty Costs?
- Headlines on Deadline…
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- Bad Tiered Formulary Designs Yield Poor Outcomes, High Cost
- DAY BY DAY, PHYSICIAN STRIKES BECOME LESS ‘UNTHINKABLE'
- Well being and next industrial revolution
- Microcircuit Devices Deliver Considerable Relief From Chronic Pain
- Down but Not Out, California Again Watched by Industry
- Backlash against copay accumulators
- Index of /archives/0005
- Why Workers Choose CDHPs: Matter of Dollars and Sense
- Following Great Britain's Lead on EMR and (Maybe) OTC Statins
- Emerging Insights About Measuring Disease Management Outcomes
- Liver cancer detection test gets breakthrough device status
- 2019 Editorial Calendar
- HMOs and Alternative Medicine
- Team makes zika drug breakthrough
- Dangerous drug interactions, pharmaceutical care are twin thrusts of National Pharmacy Week
- How's Your Office Manager Doing? Don't Let Question Just Hang There
- Health insurance premiums show smallest hike in recent history
- Plan-Physician Cooperation: A Few Small Steps on the Road
- patient empowerment
- Fixed-Dose Triple-Combination Treatments In the Management of Hypertension
- FDA panel backs diabetes combo iglarlixi
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- HCFA Predicts Health Spending To Double by 2007
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- With Workplace Clinics, What’s Old Is New
- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Monitoring Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) in the Management of Asthma
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- What's in Store for Physicians When a Market Enters Phase III
- Shelter from the health care storm
- Cross-Border Traffic Highlights Differences in U.S., Canadian Systems
- BACE Inhibitor Receives FDA Fast-Track Designation for Early Alzheimer's Disease
- Company Prepares to Submit Cannabis-Based Epilepsy Treatment to FDA
- Geisinger's Embedded Nurses Improve Transitions
- FDA Panel Likes New Treatment for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
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- Index of /archives/0004
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- Vaccination: Is 1 oz. of Prevention Still Worth 1 lb. of Cure?
- Health Plans Respond as Microbes Develop Resistance Techniques
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- For Health Insurers, Retail Space Available!
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- Will Therapeutic Interchange Be Put Off Limits by States?
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- CDC: Zika-Transmitting Mosquitoes Found in Most of U.S.
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- Innovative Care Model to Improve Clinical Quality and Safety of Transitional Care: Early Outcomes
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- Active Surveillance Helped Me Avoid Prostate Surgery For Now
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- The Role of Managed Care In Patient Safety & Error Reduction
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- January 2010
- Experimental zika vaccine begins human testing
- Network measuring pilot narrows
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- The Uberization of American Health Care: Why We Need a Disruptive Model
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- An Interview with Alan Hillman, M.D., M.B.A.
- Rude Awakening When Kaiser Retreats
- Index of /archiveMC/9808
- January 2011
- Introducing the CHR, More Like a PHR Than an EMR
- Uninsured Tracked Over 2-Year Period
- Treating Psoriasis Patients With Biologic Agents
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- Payers Begin to Make Plans For Coming Wave of Biosimilars
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- Cancer care can we afford hope
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- Is the Comeback Real — or Is It All Just an Illusion?
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- Does the Chronic Care Model Signal Big Changes for DM?
- Cheers–and Boos–
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- Dr. Drugstore Will See You Now
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- 3 Steps to a Strong Pricing Strategy
- New metric works patient reported outcomes
- Index of /archives/0004
- Cross-Border Traffic Highlights Differences in U.S., Canadian Systems
- Changing medical evidence brings shift C-section stance
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- A Conversation with Robert L. Weinmann, M.D.
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- After Physicians Protest, An HMO Changes Its Mind
- ASCO, Others Design Tools To Measure the Worth of Drugs
- Constructing Disease Management Programs
- Proposal Would Limit Profit of Some California Plans
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- A Conversation with Nancy W. Dickey, M.D.
- Tomorrow's Technology Is Saving Money Today
- Health Expenditures Ease a Bit; Drugs Lead Cost-of-Care Increase
- FDA approves remicade biosimilar pfizer won't market it
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- Just What the Devil Is Population-Based Care?
- GENETIC MEDICINE: Powerful Opportunities For Good and Greed
- Sanofi submits new data insulin glargine lixisenatide pen diabetes
- Plans, PBMs, Employers Prod Docs To E-Prescribe
- Moving Consumers to the Head of the Class
- Diabetes costs employers 20b unplanned sick days
- Cost of Coverage Forces Search For ‘Alternatives'
- Should Doctors Guarantee Results? Or, Whose Disease Is It, Anyway?
- You Will Live Healthily!
- Patients profit dialysis center have lower kidneytransplantation rates
- A Conversation with Jeff Goldsmith: He Connects Health Care's Dots Along Information Superhighway
- February 2015
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- Novartis faces fines criminal charges over zolgensma data
- Roche buy spark therapeutics 48-billion
- Health care mergers and acquisitions decline in 1998
- HIV drug doravirine succeeds phase 3 trial
- Formulary Standards Key To E-Prescribing Success
- Expect Changes In Medicare HMO Inpatient Rates
- Better Patient Communications Mean Lower Liability Exposure
- Does consolidation may not be worth trouble
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- One reason our health care costs so much
- Zerbaxa hospital acquired ventilator associated bacterial pneumonia
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- uspstf issues final recommendation screening depression children and adolescents
- MOR208 named breakthrough therapy some lymphoma cases
- Drug Used to Treat Diabetes May Get OK for Weight Loss
- Sense of Gravity, Humility In Catastrophe's Aftermath
- Association Health Bill Fails Despite Senators' Support
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- Two Western States' Voters Reject Measures To Limit Managed Care
- Bayer take birth control device essure US market
- A Conversation with David Nace, MD: Primary Care Stakes a Big Tent
- Reaching for the Stars: Medical Directors Feel Pressure To Score Medicare Advantage Points
- FDA approves new hemophilia therapy
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- Managing Medicaid Rolls Often State-by-State Affair
- Oregon Attempts To Blaze Trail With ‘Reference-Based' Formulary
- Several HMOs Stung in N.Y. Test Of Consumer Law
- California program cuts maternal deaths half
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- P&T Committees in Position To Reduce Medication Errors
- After a decade of tumult, what's next
- Blueprint for the Future? Or Trapped in a Lockbox?
- Managed Care Industry Change Looks to Outcomes, Not Process
- Pharmacy Copayments: A Double-Edged Sword
- Medical Tourism: Once Ready for Takeoff, Now Stuck at the Gate
- Genetic testing brings fight individual cancer cell
- How We Got It Anyway: The Clinton Health Plan Never Died
- Autologous mesenchymal stem cells treating knee osteoarthritis
- Telemedicine Kiosks: The Future of Health Care?
- In Separate Cases, Aetna, HIP Partner Face Tough Battles
- Medintranet
- NCQA Toughens Standards for Measuring Plans' Quality
- Nurse managed health centers might ease pcp shortage
- Roll Over, Beethoven Your Genetic Profile's in
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- Ombudsmen: Navigating The Managed Care Maze
- Injectable Drug May Help Avoid Eye Surgery In Patients With Vitreomacular Adhesion
- New Anticoagulant Fights for Credibility
- Capitation
- Medical Marijuana Coverage Still Lost in the Legal Weeds
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- Never Rest
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- Vol. 8, No. 5 May 1999
- Payer Executives Want Plans To Boost Worker Productivity
- New Fee Schedule For Medicare Helps Office Docs
- Drug Expense Hits Home; Mississippi Pays Pharmacists
- Some PCPs Are Worried Sick About Patients
- New Generation of Issues Now Coming to Forefront
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- Health Care From the Medical Director POV
- Cracks are starting show affordable care act's insurance exchanges
- Will State Legislators Keep Playing Doctor?
- Long-Term Data Support Safety and Efficacy of Genvoya for HIV Infection
- 6-State Coalition Creating Joint Drug-Buying Pool
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- Optum’s Lisa Tseng Keeps Entrepreneurial Ball Rolling
- Your Disability Insurance: More Costly, More Needed
- More cost-shifting in the pharmacy benefit: Copayments at new highs, while 3-tier formularies spread
- FDA approves sofosbuvir velpatasvir combo epclusa treatment chronic hcv infection
- Is Outsourcing a Cure For the IT Blues?
- Research sheds light mechanism leads drug resistant superbugs
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- Providers, Plans Misinformed About Vendor Software Capability
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- Medicaid Rates Rise in Georgia, Bucking Trend
- Managing the Cost of Diagnosis
- Salary slowdown reported for specialists
- Index of /archiveMC/9609
- Tennessee Gives Medicaid Program New Lease on Life
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- Payers consumers benefit patents expire
- A Conversation With Emad Rizk, MD: Disease Management Beyond the Call Center
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- Kaiser Permanente Wins Endorsement of AFL-CIO
- GOP conservatives and moderates split obamacare repeal
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- Nurse Practitioners Inch onto the Field
- Family physicians paid less per RVU than internists
- Computer-aided Multispectral Digital Analysis (MelaFind) for Assessing Atypical Skin Lesions
- Too Much Health Care Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
- Cigna turns toward east
- The Pap Test: 20th Century Success Story, 21st Century Has-Been
- Specialist Pharmacists Make Adherence Matter
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- Costly biologics have plan sponsors looking at benefit designs
- Expanded approval cf treatment children aged 6
- ACA Decreased Racial Disparities
- Biggest increases in specialty drug costs seen in rheumatologic, cancer, and hemophilia agents
- Effort Puts Medication Adherence On Geisinger Health Plan’s Radar
- External Review of Disputes Gains Steam on Capitol Hill
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- Despite What You Hear, State Privacy Statutes No Threat to DM
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- Congress Asked To Take Action As HMOs Flee Managed Medicare
- Sept. 11's Lessons in Disaster Care
- Using Option-Based Contracts to Improve Health Outcomes
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- CVS Caremark Wants To Make Drug Rebates a Thing of the Past
- Kennedy-Kassebaum Law Means Greater Fraud Scrutiny
- Doctors: FDA Threatens Strategy To Manage High-Risk Pregnancies
- Aetna humana consider appealing court decision blocking their merger
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- What We Talk About When We Talk About Value-Based Care
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- Dual-Treatment Approach To Parkinson's Disease
- Who Will Pay for High-Cost Biologics?
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- Population Care Coordinators: A Key to Improved Care at Lower Cost?
- Regional Spending Variations Tied to Doctor Care Methods
- SWITCHING DOCTORS, SWITCHING PLANS: The ‘Revolving Door' Problem
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- Molecular Diagnostic Testing Presents $5 Billion Conundrum
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- Medicare Reform Dead for Now On Capitol Hill
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- Trials Wrap on Interferon-Free Hepatitis C Regimen
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- States trim what they can to restrain Medicaid costs
- What’s ahead? Private spending growth slows
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio, Selling to Columbia/HCA, Loses Name
- Senate Republicans Consider Keeping Obamacare Taxes to Pay for Repeal
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- Buzzwords collide positive results
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- Navigators cancer terrain help patients and may cut costs
- Renewing calls for better cost profiling of providers
- Bush launches 10 year effort create national EMR system
- Is Paying Physicians By Capitation Wrong?
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- Is Paying Physicians By Capitation Wrong?
- Listening to St. John's Wort
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- The ACO Contract: Four Parts of the Basic Chassis
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- Managed Care's Prospects in the Health Reform Era
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- Remarkable Work Went Into Designing the New HPV Vaccine
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- One Health System's Approach To Disease Management
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- Finding Common Ground: Where Foundations, MC Meet
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- Trying sidestep label dance around
- Making Water Run Downhill
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- Making the case for account-based health plans
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- More young adults prescribed ADHD drugs
- New Privacy Rules May Provide Boost For IT Companies
- In Narrow Heart Vessels, Catheter Device Prevails
- Extremely Premature Infants Benefit From Technology
- Medicare Advantage to remain robust this year
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- 340B Program Fails to Meet Its Promise, Study Finds
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- First Oral Medication OK'd To Fight Psoriatic Arthritis
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- Indiana Senate Passes Physician Choice Legislation
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- Stakes Raised for Reform
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- Many Guidelines Skirt Cost Issue
- Mortality Rates Drop For Cardiac Arrest
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- Drain on the System: How To Manage the Worried Well
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- TennCare Gets Higher Marks for Care Than for Administration and Funding
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- Philadelphia's Fox Chase In Pursuit of Fewer Readmissions
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- Compliance With Antithrombotic Guidelines: Current Practice, Barriers, and Strategies For Improvement
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- Byte by Byte, Harvard Pilgrim Choked on Unhealthy IT Systems
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- Health Plans: Disrupt and Prosper
- Tough Road Ahead for the AMA's Physician Accreditation Program
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- TennCare's Chief Says Fraud Threatens To Sink Program
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- A Conversation with Thomas H. Lee, MD
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- Letters to the Editor
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- FDA approves duaklir treatment COPD
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- PBM Industry Today: Who's Managing Drug Costs?
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- Large Employers Now Use DM To Cut Their Costs
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- Providing Medical Management In Consumer-Directed Plans
- Avoiding ‘Bad Faith' Denials of Medical Claims
- Improving Processes Easier Said Than Done
- Vote unlikely drug price bill
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- DM's Motivation Factor Can Skew Study Results
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- Study many patients stop taking life saving statins after heart attack
- Payers, providers weigh value of some costly biologics
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- Some Plans Ignore Nay-Sayers When It Comes to Telemedicine
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- Insurers: Trump trumps all expectations
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- Insurers should promote expansion of residencies
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- Bring ‘Young Invincibles’ Into the System
- Wendell Potter insurers use choice messaging protect status quo
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- Expanded Role for Pharmacists Tested
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- PSA Fails the Test, but Does It Matter?
- Letters to the Editor
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- Plans Slow to Cover At-Home BP Monitoring
- Projecting a Leaner Managed Medicare
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- Much hope placed big data artificial intelligence improve health care delivery
- FDA staff backs etanercept enbrel biosimilar
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- Paying More Than You Should For Outpatient Procedures?
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- National drug bill to continue rising by 14%–18%
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- Index of /archives/0005
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- Precision Medicine in Primary Care: Bespoke. Genetic and Genomic. And Maybe Not Ready.
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- CalPERS Takes Tough Stand In Giving 38 Hospitals the Boot
- Prior Authorization for Safety, Not Just for Economy
- Pitavastatin livalo tops pravastatin HIV study
- The Death of Disease Management (Finally)
- Primary care salaries hold steady
- Joint commission issues report new and revised pain assessment and management standards
- Biopharma companies mix medications and cannabis
- Former valeant and philidor executives charged fraud and kickback scheme
- Capitation payments shrinking
- Briefly Noted
- Preventive Care: Can We Do a Better Job?
- Hospital at Home Saves 19% In Real-World Study
- A Better Office Visit For Doctor and Patient
- Stimulus bill spurs plans rapid it progress
- Obama Rescinds MA Letter
- Enzalutamide improves survival men metastatic prostate cancer
- Medicare Advantage Hits Jackpot with Private Fee-for-Service Plans
- March 2000
- FACCT's president talks about the need for patients to take charge of their health care and the challenges of developing a set of quality measures for children.
- Too Many Books: How To Tell the Best Cooks?
- Managing care in the 21st century
- Antitrust Investigators Target Mylan’s EpiPen
- Consumer-Directed Health Plans Continue to Gain Adherents
- Worker's Comp – Can Managed Care Fix It?
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- CDHPs aren’t catching on
- PBMs’ Rebate Income Threatened By Lawsuits and Move to Generics
- Liability's Jaws Closing on HMOs
- Price Teva's Generic Drug Wilson's Disease Sparks Outrage
- Academic detailing effectively reduces Rx costs
- New Method Could Fast-Track Existing Drugs as Novel Treatments for Depression
- In Early Diagnosis, Too, We Find That Less Is More
- Lax Coding by Physicians Hurts Medicare Advantage Plans
- AMA, Federal Government Fret More About Online Prescribing and Pharmacy
- Better outcomes less cost will follow engaged patients
- Gastric cancer incidence rate rise
- Terms & Conditions of Use Agreement
- ‘B’ Isn’t Always for Biologics
- Transparency Catches Eye In Coalition's Deal With Medco
- Changing medical evidence brings shift C section stance
- Eribulin mesylate halaven succeeds late stage liposarcoma trial
- What the For-Profit Trend In Health Care Really Means
- What do physicians want health plans?
- Prior Authorization for Safety, Not Just for Economy
- Pa. Internists Fight To Block Blues' Merger
- Study: HMOs Beat FFS In Diagnosing Breast Cancer
- Physician pay remains flat, but bonuses rise
- Doc Buy-In Needed For EHR Push
- CDC reports rising flu hospitalizations 16 more pediatric deaths
- More U.S. kids overdosing on ADHD drugs
- Supreme Court Ruling Will Speed Biosimilars to Market
- A Conversation With Reed Tuckson, MD: Championing Change from the Inside
- Projecting a Leaner Managed Medicare
- We Have the Tools for Safer Prescribing and Dispensing
- Why Blogs?
- Patrick Kennedy Sees More Talk Than Action in Mental Health Coverage and Parity
- Less Carrot, More Stick? How Some HMOs Go Too Far
- Ranks of Uninsured Grow In Southwest's Arid Climate
- Whatever Happened to Exclusive Contracting?
- Clinical and Economic Outcomes of the Cincinnati Pharmacy Coaching Program for Diabetes and Hypertension
- Truce!
- Health plan foundations how well are they spending money
- Physician-Owned HMOs Turn Up the Heat in Florida
- Plans & employers step up controls on specialty pharmacy
- Outpatient Treatment of Deep Venous Thrombosis In Managed Care
- Imbruvica wins FDA approval treat chronic graft versus host disease
- Wellness programs proliferate employers buy big time
- A Conversation with John Abramson, MD: Is It Time To Create a ‘Fed Board' To Oversee Clinical Research?
- Concierge Care by Any Name Raises Ethical Concerns
- Praluent Cuts Cardiac Events, Deaths in High-Risk Patients
- Physicians oppose public disclosure of quality
- More Attention Paid To Physicians, Patients
- EHR gets f for physicians
- April 2001
- Dr. Drugstore Will See You Now
- Nations rated health care
- 16 FDA-approved Biosimilars
- Employers Want More Cooperation From Plans: A Conversation with Larry S. Boress
- Health plans pay less when PBM owns mail-order pharmacy
- Frustrated With Managed Care ‘Lite,' Radicals See Virtue of Competition
- Written Tests Can Help You Hire the Best Employees
- Better Analysis of Risk Means Less Risk for All
- Organ trail matching supply demand
- With Cost Study, Group Argues For OTC Benefit
- No one here gets out alive preparing patients end
- Adam Fein: Drug spend is NOT skyrocketing
- Asking plans keep employees job
- Gordon Chairs Group That Will Examine Quality
- Real world analysis dispensed international units coagulation factor viii and
- January 2000
- NCQA Takes Initial Steps To Examine Quality of PPOs
- Headlines on Deadline …
- Assessing Provider Partnerships For Accountable Care Organizations
- Employer retention big motivator for HMOs' workers' comp activities
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- Study: Consumers benefited most during '90s conversion to managed care
- AAHP's Analysis Of Election Day: We Told You So
- Genetic Variant Burden and Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiomyopathy
- Stress May Affect Physician Retention
- Genentech Asthma Drug Less Than Stellar in Late-Stage Studies
- Report: Physicians storm Web sites to get information on formularies
- Two-Pronged Approach Holds Promise Against Peripheral Arterial Disease
- Untangling the HIE Mess
- Outcomes Derail Study on Educated Consumers
- July 2015
- 2009 costs will continue to outpace inflation
- NIH Endorses Some Uses for Acupuncture; Whether HMOs Will Too Is Less Certain
- A New Approach for MS
- A Conversation with Regina E. Herzlinger
- FDA
- Free Statins Disrupt Pharmacy Benefit Plans
- Mips we just don't know yet
- Study bodes well biosimilars
- Off-label provisions spread
- More Children Get Coverage
- Physician income trends vary by specialty
- August 2004
- Management of Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis With Biologic Therapy
- Infliximab Biosimilar Is Noninferior to Remicade in Phase 3 Crohn’s Disease Study
- ‘New’ health care organizations will truly manage care
- New Stark II Rules on Referrals Will Further Restrict Medical Practices
- United HealthCare And Humana Plan $5.5 Billion Merger
- Free Database Encourages Wide Sharing of Information on Programs' Outcomes
- As Restrictions on Abortion Increase, Interest in Access Via Telemedicine Increases
- Every Insurer Is Capable of Delivering High Quality
- Florida's MCO Medicaid path may be taken by other states
- Senate Republicans unveil Obamacare replacement bill
- Don't Bet That Problems With Part D Are Over
- AHRQ's national guideline clearinghouse has gone dark
- Immunotherapies Can't Keep Market Forces at Arm's Length
- King’s Attorney Tells Managed Care How It Would Have Been If He’d Won
- ‘Dr. Jeeves' Gives Rich Medical Star Treatment
- Plan Lets Ombudsman Go To Bat for Members
- Say Goodbye to Ulcers, Say Hello to Savings
- N.Y. Life's Sale To Aetna Triggers Physician Worries
- Coverage expansion means more regulations
- Evaluating Quality of ‘Medical Tourism’ For Heart Surgery: Measures That Matter
- Index of /archiveMC/9808
- NIH Reviews Status of TB Diagnosis and Treatment
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- AHIP’s Karen Ignagni: Health Insurers Will Continue to Innovate
- Genes tell story young doctors age too quickly
- Boom Times for Brain Injuries
- Can Doing the Right Business Thing Protect Physicians From Liability?
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- Plans Feel Pressure to Vaccinate More Adults
- Everyone Uses E-mail Now (Except Doctors and Patients)
- Accountability in Managed Care: What Should We Expect From Patients?
- Competing HMOs Discover When It's Better To Cooperate
- Plans and Physicians in Hawaii Experiment With Online ‘Visits’
- Spend Money on Healthy People!
- There Are Good Reasons to Follow U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations
- Genetic Testing: Handle With Caution
- October 2004
- Take as Needed…
- Swim at your own risk
- Smoking Cessation Coverage May Be Worth Plans’ Effort
- PBMs report increase in drug margins
- Survey finds more prior authorization, cost shifting by large employers in 2016
- Viagra Takes Market by Storm; Who Pays is Another Matter
- What women's health wants your market
- ACOs called key to doc payment reform
- HIV/AIDS treatment drastically reduces mortality and helps to limit transmission
- Bad tiered formulary designs yield poor outcomes, high cost
- Transparency Catches Eye In Coalition's Deal With Medco
- Skeptics Say Trump’s Efforts To Lower Drug Prices Don’t Go Far Enough
- In Managed Care as in Life, Small Advances Add Up
- New Diabetes Medications Drive Up Costs And Stymie Formulary Design
- 5 Product Engineering Methods To Use in Health Care Management
- ‘New PARCA' Doesn't Placate Critics; Passage Prospects Going Down Tube
- Prescription Omega-3 Fatty Acid Products and Dietary Supplements Are Not Interchangeable
- Specialty Societies Tell Members, ‘Think Twice About Those Tests’
- RA Gets First Oral Agent To Compete with Biologics
- Don’t Get Caught By PBMs’ MAC Mousetraps
- Q&A with Scott Gottlieb, MD
- An Interview with David Nash, M.D., M.B.A.
- Most People Happy With Their Coverage
- Primary Care
- Docs unconvinced about P4P effectiveness
- Study questions efficacy formularies cutting costs
- Barrett's Esophagus Seen In New Photodynamic Light
- Measuring Outpatient Outcomes of Emesis and Nausea Management in Pregnant Women
- Implementing the New HEDIS Hypertension Performance Measure
- A Conversation with William R. Gold, MD: ‘Random Gifts of Information' Should Never be Ignored
- Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine for Young Children
- More Families Rely On State Insurance
- December 2007
- ACOs Sit Like Gibraltar In Rough Seas of Change
- The Cost Benefit to Health Plans of Pharmacotherapy for Alzheimer's Disease
- 2014
- 2016 Editorial Calendar
- The C-Suite is Still Mostly a He-Suite
- Will Health Plans Keep Their Erisa Shield?
- Taxpayers Reject Idea of Losing Deduction for Health Insurance
- Manufacturers Square Off Over Naming of Biosimilars
- December 2014
- IPA models predominate among newer HMOs
- Modest Investment in ‘Coaching' Seems To Lead To Lowered Costs
- Why Is It So Tough to Deliver On E-Prescribing’s Promise?
- Illinois's Medicare Drug Program Called 1st Stab at National Reform
- Primary care in the consumer-centric era
- Insurers and Oncologists Forge a Better Cancer Drug Policy
- Snail Venom key better diabetes treatments
- More Retirees Face Life Without Health Benefits
- Extenders' pay gains exceed physicians'
- Health Reform Law Makes Us Relevant
- Coupon Programs Curb Antihistamine Utilization
- Primary Care Salaries ‘Go South'
- Getting Members more Engaged
- CMS hybrid payment system shows promise
- Physician Payment Reform Will Need Insurer Assistance
- Privacy Legislation Is on Track; Could It Derail DM Programs?
- First, Do No Harm– To the English Tongue
- Too much of a good thing: Overdiagnosis to get its due
- Opioid Deaths Among Women Not Getting the Attention They Warrant
- NQF Unveils New Surgery Measures
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- Abbreviated Approval Process In the Works for ‘Biosimilar' Drugs
- It's To Plans' Benefit To Spell Out Authority
- Confronting The Medicare Cost Shift
- Less Invasive, More Informative Monitoring Breakthroughs on Way
- Missed rebate opportunities dog medical benefit
- Venclexta obstructs diabetes mice targeting beta cell senescence
- 13% of workers pay separate drug deductibles
- Mental Health Parity: A Year Later, Are We There?
- Health Reform Trying To Get Its Act Together
- Medicare advantage step therapy proposal seen step backward patients
- Targeting a Cystic Fibrosis Mutation Opens Door for Personalized Treatment
- Continuity of Care When Coverage Changes Draws Attention of Regulators, Legislatures
- Q&A with Scott Gottlieb, MD
- Disease Management
- What's New Is Old For Home-Health Agencies in U.S.
- Some HMOs See Dividends In Charging Deductibles
- Clinical and Economic Outcomes of the Cincinnati Pharmacy Coaching Program for Diabetes and Hypertension
- How We Got It Anyway: The Clinton Health Plan Never Died
- Closed formulary keeps student-run clinic afloat
- Todays medical directors line be tomorrows health tech chiefs
- ICUs Cut Costs by Hiring Intensivists
- AAHP's Analysis Of Election Day: We Told You So
- Screen patients quickly workers comp fraud
- The Comeback Kid: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- User
- July 2014
- Headlines on Deadline…
- Can Health Plans Change Unhealthy Behavior?
- 12 DM Trends You Should Know About
- Molecular Diagnostic Testing Presents $5 Billion Conundrum
- Privacy Up, Liability Down In State Houses This Year
- Unmet Needs in the Management of Plaque Psoriasis
- 12 Million Misdiagnoses a Year Due to Gaps in Outpatient Care
- The Inevitability of E-commerce
- For physician executives, that M.B.A. really pays off
- 11 Slices of Expert Advice For Today’s Medical Directors
- Left behind by the boom?
- Plugging chronic pain money drain
- Pay-or-Play Ideas Make Employers Help Uninsured
- Clinton Wants HMO-Medicaid Match To Stick
- Diabetes Could Be Managed Care’s Big Chance
- Quality-Measurement Organizations Look Beyond HMO and POS Plans
- Coverage for Uninsured Children Emerges as Major Legislative Goal
- Lobbyists That the Founders Just Never Dreamed of
- Vol. 9, No. 2 February 2000
- AHCPR employers should use power boost quality
- April 1998
- Telemedicine program aims keep nursing home residents put
- Bipartisan Bill Gains Momentum, Worries Industry
- An Editor's Problem: How To Stay Humble
- Bundled payments may have unintended consequences
- Aetna's profits soar second quarter
- Bipartisan agreement reached surprise billing legislation
- An Initiative Aimed at Influencing Cell Physiology and Psychology
- Survey: Enrollees View Docs, HMOs As One and Same
- Two Major studies focus Mental Health
- NCCN Updates Genetic Screening Guidelines
- Norwood and Gingrich Butt On Reform Pace
- So How Much Would Medicare for All Really Cost? Good Question.
- Medication Therapy Management Faces Tighter Requirements in 2010
- Any International Health Plan Has To Be Cheap
- Three components missing many population management strategies
- “Artificial Pancreas” Makes U.S. Debut
- Medicare+Choice Reform: Hope, but No Quick Action Expected
- Got problem you can't solve hire health care consultant
- Avastin
- Extricating Yourself From the Hospital System
- Feeling financial squeeze hospitals slash jobs across country
- Budget impact
- Florida’s MCO Medicaid Path May Be Taken by Other States
- Discussion Groups
- Next Generation Anticoagulants May Push Warfarin to the Wayside
- An Interview With Paul Ellwood Jr., M.D.
- Calif. Blues Plan Says No Tiers For Hospitals
- ACOs Will Depend on HIEs, With an Assist From Plans
- Physician Executives Don't Have To Go It Alone
- Same-Day Appointments Promise Increased Productivity
- Fall Prevention Hits Stumbling Blocks
- Mental Health Parity Leaves a Lot Out
- Though more ex inmates are covered gaps still remain
- End Is Coming For Managed Care (Or Is It?)
- With Weight Management, One Thing Leads to Another
- Nation's largest nursing home pharmacy pay more 28-million settle kickback allegations
- Report: Pediatric Asthma Costs Vary Widely Across Hospitals
- Making the Medicare/Managed Care Marriage Work
- Prime Sees Dip in Opioids, Triptans as CGRP Inhibitor Scripts Take Off
- HMOs, Physicians Discover They Really Need Each Other
- E-Health Gives Kaiser Role In Bioterror Fight
- Some Builders’ Remorse: The Rise and Fall of the Oncology Medical Home
- Orphan Drugs: Way Too Many, Way Too Expensive
- Better Patient Communications Mean Lower Liability Exposure
- Suit Aftermath: What Are HMOs' Softest Spots?
- CVS and 100000 qaly
- AI designs drug 21 days
- Letters to the Editor
- With a Favorable Side Effect Profile, Tecfidera Gains the FDA’s Approval
- Irresistible Force Called DM Facing Some Immovable Objects
- April 1999
- Why bundled payments are poised to take off
- First Encounters of the QALY Kind
- Health care plans & providers to invest heavily in IT services
- Radiologists, anesthesiologists in demand
- Newsletter
- Prepaid Care, Third-World Style: The Uganda Health Cooperative
- Headlines On Deadline…
- 400 Million Dollar
- Countdown Begins for Compliance With HIPAA Electronic Standards
- Sizing Up the Mega-Mergers Through Prisms and Microscopes
- FDA panel backs nocturia treatment
- Great hopes, great obstacles in preparing and ending the Hivaiden we know
- 7 Managed Care Reform Measures Vetoed by California's Gov. Wilson
- Human-Derived Clotting Agent Avoids Immunogenicity
- Copayment, coinsurance rates change little
- price-transparency-could-backfire
- Medicare enrollees oppose cuts to MA to fix physician pay
- Health Care Reform in the U.K.: Managed Care by Another Name?
- They're Coaching Your Patients On What To Demand From You
- Antibiotics Versus Surgery for Appendicitis
- Study: “One-Stop Shopping” Cuts Hospital Costs by Double Digits in Older Patients
- Fallout from HMOs' Medicare pullout
- A Conversation with James C. Robinson, PhD, MPH: Waiting for Economic Pressure to Force Our Hand
- Physician payment may hinge quality not quantity 2010
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Poses Management Challenge
- Pioneer Not-for-Profit Plans Struggle To Remain Leaders
- FDA Says “No” to Hyperkalemia Drug
- Capitation Is for Specialists, Not for Primary Care Physicians
- Cascade costs could push gene therapy over 1 million patient
- Index of /archiveMC/9712
- NIH Endorses Some Uses for Acupuncture; Whether HMOs Will Too Is Less Certain
- Antiviral drugs have made hepatitis C-eminently treatable
- Global market for biosimilars expected to explode
- Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis Patients Can Look to Second Oral Agent
- Many Not Eligible For Benefits Get Them Anyway
- Defined Contribution: Threat… or Fad?
- Small drop in measles vaccinations would have outsized effect
- Male sexual dysfunction drug gets ax after disappointing trial results
- Follow the Shrinking Managed Care Savings
- Opinions on DM Outcomes Can Be Swayed
- FDA Panel Recommends Approval of C. difficile Drug Bezlotoxumab
- How blockchain has strange bedfellows singing kumbaya
- Treating Diseases and Managing Costs
- Colon Surgery Study Sees Decrease in Pain Medication Use
- Explosive Numbers
- Health Plans Are Ill-Prepared for Looming Diabetes Epidemic
- Diabetes costs rise, but so does adherence
- Cancer moonshot 2020 may offer more hype hope
- Hospitalists No Longer Novel
- Primary care physicians worked harder and were rewarded, if not commensurately
- Unfairly Targeting 340B Hospitals
- Biologics trend leads pharmaceuticals
- How Much Trouble Does Health Care Marketing Cause?
- Though Still a Priority, Reform May Take Back Seat as Privacy Issues Heat Up
- The memo that launched 1,000 (well, not quite that many) think tanks
- Competing HMOs Discover When It's Better To Cooperate
- Monoclonal antibody now available prevent red blood cell breakdown
- October 2015
- NCQA Adds Performance To Accreditation Reviews
- Atrial fibrillation largely ignored by plans, states
- July 1999
- Gain the ‘Quality' Edge in Competing for Contracts
- Increased Abandonment of Prescriptions Means Less Control of Chronic Conditions
- Case Study of a Failed Merger of Hospital Systems
- A Strategy for Identifying and Disseminating Best Practice Innovations in the Care of Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions or End-of-Life Care Needs
- Another Cancer Vaccine, Another Retreat
- Public Policy Largely Ignores Adult Immunization Needs
- Esteban l pez blue cross and blue shield texas
- Are we undermanaging hospital care?
- Doctors Bypassed As More Medicine Purchased Online
- Kidney Disease Drug Wins Breakthrough Therapy Designation
- Access to Notes Boosts Adherence
- What do you do about ER costs?
- Episode-of-Care Payment Creates Clinical Advantages
- A Conversation with Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P.
- FDA Approves Obalon Balloon System
- A Conversation with David B. Nash, MD, MBA: Steadily, We Move Toward the Primacy of Outcomes
- FDA thwarts drug companies abuse citizen petitions
- Index of /archives/0003
- Legislation Would Allow Association Health Plans
- Doctors in the House
- Medstat Promises Satisfaction Reports That Are Free of Suspicion of Bias
- Morning Complete ➤ Test, intake, side effects, rating【2024】
- April 2014
- Waiting for the Unicorn: Another Study Questions Whether ACOs Will Appear
- Caregivers Fill Crucial Role But Don’t Get Much Help
- Tougher Penalties Arrive For Upcoding, ‘Unnecessary' Care
- December 2016
- Medically, Race Means Nothing
- Base salaries paid by HMOs to family physicians and internists
- Tiering Hospitals Pays Off For Calif. Blues Plan
- New Stark II Rules on Referrals Will Further Restrict Medical Practices
- More than half of the nation's HMOs use pay-for-performance programs
- An Interview with Dennis O'Leary, M.D.
- AHRQ’s Free Research Can Help Plans Anticipate Coverage Issues
- Pregnancy+Birth=$$$v
- Financial Picture Looking Better For Part D
- 3 off the scrap heap
- Revolution in Massachusetts May Spread to Other States
- Specialist compensation outpaces primary care
- Gilead, Abbvie Ready Hep C Combinations for FDA
- Meet George C. Halvorson
- Fall Prevention Hits Stumbling Blocks
- Cdc death rate blacks continues decline
- Adherence to biologics demands greater attention
- Part D Model Guidelines Updated Far Too Infrequently
- Six therapeutic categories account for most drug costs
- Cover Dietary Supplements? Some Plans Say Yes
- Herzlinger’s ACO, PCMH Comments Create a Storm
- Take a Bow, Pharma, for the Hepatitis C Drugs
- Pushback on Zaltrap’s Price Highlights Sensitive End-of-Life Issue
- Conversation michael kanter md casting wider net
- March 2007
- Flu season: Most HMO formularies cover Tamiflu, Relenza
- Rules Laid Down for ‘Navigators’
- Medicaid Overhaul Includes an MLR Rule
- Hospitals must cut administrative tasks red tape aha says
- Retail Gets Some Respect
- Universal Care Making Rounds In State Houses and on Ballots
- Medicare Payment Formula Triggers Specialists' Suit
- Milestones & Musings: As Managed Care Turns 10, Where We Goofed, Where We Called It
- Managed Care (and Everyone Else) Unprepared for the Next Killer Flu
- The Private Sector Can, Should, and Will Help Solve the Problem of the Uninsured
- MC TV
- Transforming Dyslipidemia Management: Assessing Clinical Outcomes and Cost Transforming Dyslipidemia Management: Assessing Clinical Outcomes and Cost
- Employers, DM Vendors Edging Just a Bit Closer
- Drug Cost-Sharing Amounts Stable 2010 to 2011
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- In the World of Tomorrow’s Medicine, A Single Physician Makes a Difference
- California Doctors Fear That NCQA Would Be Too Lenient With Plans
- Vol. 6, No. 2 February 1997
- Report social and economic factors disrupting health care are here stay
- Is the Comeback Real — or Is It All Just an Illusion?
- COVER STORY
- To Be Continued:The Search for a Cure for HIV
- New Era of Health Care Spending Could Roll Into the Good Times
- First Time in U.S.: Mount Sinai Treats Liver Cancer With Radiopaque Beads
- 52,000 More PCPs Needed by 2025
- ‘MAKE GATEKEEPERS TRUE INTEGRATORS OF PATIENT CARE'
- Pharma APMs: Can the Industry Learn To Play Well With Others?
- Reform expected to add 1.1% to plan costs
- New Prescribing Patterns Behind Rx Cost Hikes?
- Specialists' salaries on rise
- Few ‘likes' for managed care companies
- Chart: Medicare vs. private insurance: Which is more tight-fisted?
- Headlines On Deadline …
- Laronidase Opens Door To Treat Other Rare Disorders
- Finding Opportunity Where Business Models Meet
- Getting Serious About Generics
- Impact of 17P Usage on NICU Admissions In a Managed Medicaid Population — A Five-Year Review
- With Direct Contracting Boeing Cuts Out the Middleman
- What the Medicaid Expansion Under the ACA Means for All MCOs
- Service-line Delivery Transformation: Some Pain but Big Gains
- Achieving quality measures yields high bonuses for U.K. physicians
- Managing Rapid Change In the Health Care Environment
- Clinical and Economic Effects of Coronary Restenosis After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in a Managed Care Population
- Facing the Opioid Crisis: Scientists Search for Less-Addictive Alternatives
- Pilot telehealth program reduces costs hospitalizations and readmissions complex chronically
- A Conversation with Regina E. Herzlinger: ‘Focused Factories' Will Provide Care
- Employers gear up for more employee health management
- Use of Generics On the Rise
- Cost of transition-related care for transgender soldiers deemed ‘negligible'
- New method offers promise dna based vaccines pill form
- January 2003
- Death of a Clinic
- Nurses and Kaiser Reach Agreement; HMO Boosts Rates
- AMA Lobbies To Give Docs Union Rights
- Getting Serious About Generics
- Not the Best of Times For Managed Care Plans
- Does Charity Care Suffer When Docs Earn Less Money?
- Sanders wants pay americans past due medical bills
- Gender gap continues: Women health care execs earn 19 percent less than their male counterparts
- Progress Stalls in U.S. Stroke Death Rates After Decades of Decline
- Medicare holds down physician pay
- Biosimilars in Oncology: Reality Could Bite the Copycats, Dog Potential Major Savings
- Disruptive Innovations That Will Change Your Life in Health Care
- Has capitation weathered storm
- Plans Should Harness PBMs To Help Educate Customers
- Medicare raises payments car T therapies
- DNA-Based Stool-Sample Test Might Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening
- Productivity continues to outpace compensation
- Health Care Report Cards Who's Paying Attention?
- Direct-to-Consumer Ads Garner Mixed Outcomes
- Bed days higher in smaller markets? Not with commercial plans
- September 2016
- Off-Label Use Often Presents Conundrum for Health Plans
- ‘I want what I want, or I'm outta here'
- Following the money
- PBMs’ Rebate Income Threatened By Lawsuits and Move to Generics
- It’s Time to Ask More of Utilization Management
- Wellness Program Gets On-the-Job Training
- IRS Issues New HSA Limits
- A conversation with Margaret T. Stanley
- Three Drugstore Giants Expand Their Health System Partnerships
- A Conversation with Thomas S. Bodenheimer, M.D., M.P.H.: Emphasizing the ‘Care' In Managed Care
- Headlines on Deadline …
- ICUs Cut Costs by Hiring Intensivists
- FDA authorizes new type test find drug resistant hiv
- FDA Approves Hypertension Drug Byvalson (Nebivolol/Valsartan)
- Signs life ACA market
- Stop Fooling Around Re: Population Health
- November 2014
- Survey finds EHR usage remains subpar
- FDA Handling of Avastin Discourages Innovation
- Insurers and Oncologists Forge a Better Cancer Drug Policy
- Readmission
- What Health Plans Should Know About the Medicaid Challenge
- One Network Makes Comeback While Another Is Just Beginning
- A Conversation With Michael Kanter, MD: Casting a Wider Net
- History
- At a Crossroads? Which Reimbursement Pathway is Best Suited to Your Practice?
- Diagnosis of sleep apnea moves from lab to home
- Legislation and regulation
- Index of /archiveMC/9701
- Anthem cigna prove breaking really hard do
- HMOs: Watch Out For Internet-Based Benefit Managers
- Clinical, Financial Woes Seen For Those Who Switch Plans
- Verma tops-modern healthcares 100 most influential list
- ‘Quick Fix' Not The Answer: Drug-Development Process Already Subject to Oversight
- Excessive Use of Screening Tests Costs System Millions Each Year
- Developmental disabilities children and teens rise
- PCPs, Health Plan Executives Differ About Value’s Chances
- Informal Physician Ties Forge Stealth ‘Networks’
- Knee Replacement Procedure Means Less Stress, Bone Loss
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- Employers offer incentives to better health
- Care Coordination Strikes Right Chord
- What If?
- Retail Medical Clinics Draw Patients & Payers
- PPO Deductible Jumps 100%
- Adherence to biologics demands greater attention
- Easier use formulation bydureon wins FDA's blessing
- And the Winner Is …
- ‘Doctors take oaths, lawyers take money'
- Survey: Most Patients Clueless About Risks of X-Rays for Cancer Diagnosis
- Headlines on Deadline…
- Compliance and Persistence With Medication Therapy
- Federal and State Governments Pressed to Give Tax Breaks For Wellness Initiatives
- A Conversation with Margaret T. Stanley
- Genetic Testing: Major Opportunity, Major Problems
- Gazyva designated breakthrough therapy lupus
- COVER STORY
- In Early Diagnosis, Too, We Find That Less Is More
- Health Care Reform in England – Commercial Opportunity Or Another False Dawn?
- Bound or Gagged? Privacy, Confidentiality and CPR
- A Conversation With F. Randy Vogenberg, PhD, RPh: Changing Market for Pharmacy Benefits
- Higher Copayments and Deductibles Delay Medical Care, A Common Problem for Americans
- Could aspirin alter breast cancer outcomes
- Medical errors
- Human cost not offering medicare all
- Convenient Care Clinics Inconvenience the AMA
- Like Stock Brokers, Are Health Care's Middlemen Losing Influence?
- Medicaid, Prescription Drug Assistance Common Threads in Tobacco Settlement
- November 2009
- How nice to be the chief medical officer — of a large commercial HMO in or near Minnesota
- EHRs Turning Out To Be Not as Wonderful as Expected
- Persister bacteria may pass along resistance genes
- Paul Terry PhD
- Specialty, traditional drug cost divide to widen
- Study: Treatment of UT Infection Just Phone Call Away
- Discrimination and Health Status
- Viagra Takes Market by Storm; Who Pays is Another Matter
- Payers: Expect to feel a double-team pinch
- What Does the Future Hold For Disease Management?
- Fannie Mae's Osteoporosis Program Blazes Trail in Women's Health
- Physician-owned practices benefit from diverse mix of specialists
- Quality-Measurement Organizations Look Beyond HMO and POS Plans
- Key PBM Functional Areas Require Radical Transformation
- June 2012
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- Index of /archives/0004
- VBID Improves Adherence And Outcomes
- Deductibles and blame game high health care costs
- FDA gives green light sumatriptan nasal powder migraine
- United HealthCare Expands Presence in Southeast Region
- Bundled Payment Fails an Early Test
- Basaglar, an Insulin ‘Follow On,’ Prepares To Do Battle With Lantus
- MS Drugs: Expensive, Often Lifelong, and Not Cost Effective
- Senator attacks centene's callous behavior
- Pharmacy Copayments: A Double-Edged Sword
- New Stark II Rules on Referrals Will Further Restrict Medical Practices
- What Drugs Are Covered? Safety, Efficacy Matter
- Family Docs Outstrip Specialists in Prescribing Mental Health Drugs
- Reader Questions HMO's Call On Home Tracheostomy Care
- Retail Gets Some Respect
- Health Expenditures Ease a Bit; Drugs Lead Cost-of-Care Increase
- Health Service Vendors Should Work Together as a Team
- Dealing With Providers Always Takes Balance
- Primary care physicians' compensation better reflects productivity
- Gastric cancer incidence rate rise
- Georgia Weighs HMO Malpractice Liability, Mandates
- Microhospitals fill some emergency room needs
- Take as Needed…
- Big pharma’s struggles might benefit health plans
- BCBSMA offers cbt app
- Briefly Noted
- The Show-me State Shows the Way On ‘Health Homes’ for Mental Health
- Out of the Frying Pan Onto the Cutting Edge
- Fewer Part D options for low-income seniors
- Some primary care salary increases lag behind other health care professionals
- On the Record: Congress Debates Managed Care Reform
- FDA approves its first marijuana derived drug
- Ease navigating system varies condition
- FDA Approves New Carfilzomib (Kyprolis) Combo Therapy for Multiple Myeloma
- The History and Future of Personalized Medicine
- Acute kidney injuries double over 10 years
- New York Blues To Send Denials To External Review
- Colorado Physicians, HMO In Spat as PPM Dissolves
- Poor Transitions of Care Can Be Corrected Now
- Telehealth Dials Up Discussion About Payment to Providers
- The Weight Debate, Continued
- DM Grows, Though Under Fire
- DAILY BRIEFING
- New health care organizations will truly manage care
- A Conversation with Richard ‘Buz’ Cooper, MD: Questioning the Reform Agenda
- Physician disclosure strengthens patients' trust
- Who Will Pay for High-Cost Biologics?
- Cancer Screening Not Meeting Targets
- Blues Plan's Bold Move Brings Generics Savings
- Effort Puts Medication Adherence On Geisinger Health Plan’s Radar
- Health Plans Won’t Sit Out While Docs, Hospitals Dance
- The Impact of Minimally Invasive Surgery On Complex DRG Assignments
- How more types cancer are lending themselves
- Sessions Leaves the ACA Undefended
- Headlines On Deadline…
- Just What Can We Expect From New Head of HHS?
- Rule reporting clinical trial results often violated
- Opinions on DM Outcomes Can Be Swayed
- Mean physician income rises 6.7%
- Managed Care Seeks More from Clinical Laboratories
- Tracking the coverage divide
- Deathwatch ahcpr ends funding mandate changes
- Social media posts put hospitals risk cyber attacks
- Employers' Stock in Wellness Rises With No End in Sight
- FDA Gives First-Ever Approval of Drug To Treat Chagas’ Disease
- Can behavioral interventions reduce need ADHD Medication
- Part D plans embrace specialty drug tiers
- State Exchanges to Offer ‘CO-OPs’
- From Theory to Practice: Identifying Authentic Opinion Leaders to Improve Care
- Some Specialist Societies Feel Left Out of AMA-CMS Deal on P4P
- Don't Let One Bad Apple Spoil Your Medical Bunch
- Out-of-Pocket Costs Hamper Utilization
- Health Plans Can Learn From VHA Turnaround
- Where your Money goes
- Plan Design
- Risk Pays Off Under HCFA's New Medicare Scheme
- Managed Care's West Coast Champion
- Docs dont exploit electronic prescribing
- Managed medical care growth rubs off on dentistry
- Listening to St. John's Wort
- Nursing homes not turning telemedicine
- Building a ‘Terribly Smart’ Doc: A Conversation with David Eddy, MD, PhD
- Multiple Sclerosis Drug Ocrelizumab (Ocrevus) Wins Priority Review
- Big Plans Turn Profits, Smaller Ones Still Hurt
- Orphan drugs account 19 sales in 2020
- Headlines On Deadline …
- Who Is at Risk for Influenza? Using Criteria Other Than Age
- Taking Back the Power? Greater Freedom Through Winning HMOs' Trust
- Providers gain capitation ground
- Too Many Books: How To Tell the Best Cooks?
- Too late or too soon for knee replacement
- Mail Order Pharmacy — Savings or Added Cost?
- Individual File Downloads
- Will New Benefit Design Harm Some Patients?
- Index of /archiveMC/9808
- Federal Report: Theranos Blood-Testing Devices Often Failed Accuracy Requirements
- Conservative think-tankers in top Trump administration health care positions
- Medco Health Solutions tops consumer survey
- CE research often ignores payers’ concerns
- Experts question effectiveness cortisol blocker depressed patients
- On Heels of Report Of Medical Errors, Biz Cooperates
- A Historical Perspective on Where We Are
- April 1997
- HIPAA Affects Docs' Response To Subpoenas for Medical Data
- Comparative effectiveness studies get big boost health reform
- Should real estate be part practice buy
- HCFA Needs To Shine Some Light Through Stark II's Murkiness on ‘Gifts'
- HIPAA Modifications Ease Burdens, But Don't Take Anything for Granted
- Pharma sales reps enlisted war opioid addiction
- Service Often Too Slow When HMOs Use ‘McLabs'
- Lessons european models universal coverage
- Pharmacy Carries Health Care Stocks To 1.9% Gain in '98
- Is Oxford for Sale? Wall Street Mulls It Over While the HMO Tries To Shape Up Internally
- Managing Fibromyalgia: Supporting self-management brings many advantages
- Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening In a Managed Care Population
- When Should Bad Behavior Become a Covered Disease?
- Employers look far and wide to reduce expenses
- E-Prescribing Tools Touted
- 135 million worldwide expected to get dementia
- David Kibbe's blog
- What managed care does to physician income in single-specialty and multispecialty practices
- Why Workers Choose CDHPs: Matter of Dollars and Sense
- Prescription benefit costs rise less steeply
- Prudential Sells Health Care Line To Aetna for $1B
- Newspaper calls lawmakers end pbm pricing scheme
- Kratom gets dea reprieve
- Thursday, August 17, 2000
- House Weighs Giving Parity To Mental Health
- Fake Doctor Roams Boston Hospital
- New rules direct contracting ACO model
- Defined Contributions Will Point Employees Toward ‘Health Marts'
- Private Insurance Plays Huge Role In Veterans Health System Reform Plan
- Pharmacy benefits level off in Medicare HMOs
- Mylan misrepresents epipen generic product despite warnings CMS says
- Anthem’s push to have physicians take on two-sided risk lands at South Bend Clinic
- More outpatient surgeries taking place
- Bay State Blues Combine Global Payment With Quality Metrics
- Confronting The Medicare Cost Shift
- FDA approves admelog first short acting follow insulin product
- Kaiser’s EMR Push Pays Off
- Payers Struggle to Find Approach to Never Events
- Hurry Up and Wait
- Maybe the ACA Is Here To Stay, But Employers Wish That Cadillac Tax Would Go Away
- Florida Warns 40% of State's HMOs It May Force Them Into Receivership
- Research blame high costcancer drugs
- Mental Health Diagnoses and Treatment Vary With Race and Ethnicity
- What the Primary Care Physician Shortage Means for Health Plans
- When Your Employees Are Your Focus Group
- Opioid Deaths Among Women Not Getting the Attention They Warrant
- Getting Doctors To Listen to Patients
- Whose Right To Die? Assisted Suicide and Managed Care
- An Evidence-Based Evaluation of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
- Plans Look Askance at Me-Too Medications
- Show Me The Outcomes!
- Medicare Advantage to remain robust this year
- Why Medication Adherence Matters To Patients, Payers, Providers
- Index of /archiveMC/9711
- HMO members willing to pay to manage benefits online
- Health care executives most highly compensated
- FDA Expands Ibrutinib (Imbruvica) Label to Include Treatment of Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma
- Physician shortage could hit
- State legislatures spring ahead with restrictions on drug copay accumulators
- Biotech Billionaire in Talks To Become Health Care Czar
- Will the Employer-Based System Collapse?
- Vol. 13, No. 11 November 2004
- Men Overboard! They're Jumping Good Ship PARCA
- JCAHO's Oryx Initiative Links Outcomes with Accreditation
- Capitation Is for Specialists, Not for Primary Care Physicians
- When They Want Your Network But Don't Want All Its Members
- Medicare Coverage Rules Are Not Always Last Word
- Drug spending could double by 2004
- CMS Takes the Lead In Oncology Payment Reform
- Increased Pressures Change P&T Committee Makeup
- health policy
- MS Drug Going Generic Without Making Waves
- Administrative Burdens Make Medicare Part D Cumbersome
- ICD-10 Code Change Is Long Overdue
- Discrimination and Health Status
- The Gold Rush: Private Equity Brings Capital, Seeks Profit, in Health Care
- NCQA-AMA Plan Would Reduce Paper Duplication
- Study thirty percent pediatric readmissions may be preventable
- FDA Accepts Applications for Muscular Dystrophy Drug DeflazacortTreatment wins priority review
- PPOs: A Better Brand of Managed Care?
- AHIP Ship Sails Rough Seas
- Aimmune’s peanut allergy drug meets main goal
- For Kansas, It's All In the (ID) Cards
- Growth in average FEHBP premium slows
- Plans Clamp Down on Utilization and Doctors’ Tempers Flare
- Rural markets have always lacked strong insurer presence
- The Promise and the Pitfalls of Reference Pricing
- Hospitals embrace bundled payment systems
- Program Lets Patients Rate Doctors Online
- Mail Order Pharmacy — Savings or Added Cost?
- Managed Care's 1999 Editorial Index
- Talk About Consumer Plans Rapidly Becoming Reality
- Index of /archiveMC/9606
- Health Plans Will Use New Tools To Help Physicians Practice Better
- UPS CVS teaming drone delivery
- Rand Questions Off-label Use
- Where's the growth? In HMOs and point-of-service plans
- Liability Concern Balances Medical Tourism’s Cost Appeal
- Less Pain, Lower Costs: Can Integrative Medicine Do Both?
- Ten Practical Pointers For Tracking HEDIS Data
- New Hepatitis C Drugs: Major Killer Disease Comes Under Control
- As CDHPs Grow More Prevalent, Savings Will Probably Decline
- New Anti-Asthma Treatment Smooths Muscle in Airways
- Massachusetts Model Seen as Health Care Reform Guide
- Million-Dollar Claim Club
- FDA Approves First Blood Test to Detect Gene Mutation Associated With Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
- Popular content
- Takeaways about 2018 health care spending
- AMA: Patients Will Feel Cuts in Medicare
- NCQA To Put Report Cards On the Web
- Positive cardiovascular safety trial results investigational type 2 diabetes therapy
- Insurers Increasingly Direct Members Toward OTC Products
- HOW SURVEYS ANSWER A KEY QUESTION: Are Consumers Satisfied With Managed Care?
- Psychiatrists paid well by drugmakers
- First Medical School, Then Managed Care School
- United HealthCare And Humana Plan $5.5 Billion Merger
- Emergency medicine origin story
- Hospital Closures Rattle Small Towns
- Medical school phases out lectures while emphasizing importance team work
- Formularies get stricter
- Hospitals scramble for cutting-edge personnel
- Can Self-Management Programs Ease Chronic Conditions?
- $850 Per Bowel Movement?! Hard To Justify That Cost
- See it now: The tube attracts members
- Consumer Power Will Put HMOs, Physicians on Spot
- Consumer-Directed Health Care Won't Fly
- Study casts doubt value medicare wellness visits
- To Dent Soaring Drug Costs, States Turn to ‘Price-Gouging’ Laws
- Headlines On Deadline…
- December 2013
- Rumble Over Drug Rebates As Pharma, Payers Duke It Out
- Headlines On Deadline…
- archives/9809/9809.ncqa_report.html
- Payment by capitation comes on strong– but so far, mostly in primary care
- Cost-related underuse of heart meds leads to cardiac complications
- Aetna’s Latest Move Called Intrusive
- Medically, Race Means Nothing
- Should Uncle Sam Insure Us All?
- A Conversation with Michael Kolodziej, MD: Managing Cancer Care at a Time of ‘Transformational Improvement'
- You've Got to Believe: The Evidence on Positive Thinking in Cancer Outcomes
- Third-Party Payers Don't Realize Burdens Placed on Pharmacists
- Will Pay for Performance Programs Introduce a New Set of Problems?
- Giving Some Ground to Physicians Helped Turn Health System Around
- Diabetes Care Management Teams Did Not Reduce Utilization When Compared With Traditional Care: A Randomized Cluster Trial
- Anthem health plans reduce opioid prescriptions filled pharmacy
- CDC Report: “Superbugs” Threaten Hospital Patients
- FDA approves epipen rival
- Essential Benefits Standards Issued
- Alabama Picks Workers' Comp Service Manager
- Formulary Submission Process Catches On … Slowly
- P4P Could Widen Medical Disparities
- Despite Decades of Initiatives, Rural Physicians Grow Scarcer
- No surprise payers providers disagree about best way end surprising billing
- For drugs, the VA pays far less than Medicare
- Emerging role for new niche specialists
- Will Pay for Performance Programs Introduce a New Set of Problems?
- Bacterium Limits Cardiovascular Risks of 1 in 2 People
- Money isn't everything
- Young Docs Not Confident They Have Business Sense
- Can Health Plans Change Unhealthy Behavior?
- Polypharmacy interventions result in sustained decreases
- Vol. 15, No. 9 September 2006
- Can Managed Care Programs Rein in Medicaid’s Runaway Budgets?
- The Cancer Pill Not Taken Costs Insurers in Long Run
- Will Your State's Privacy Law Be Superseded by HIPAA?
- Two surveys point to growth for consumer-directed plans
- Pharmacy directors see healthy increase in pay in 2003
- New Gait Stimulation Devices Walk the Coverage Line
- Tiger in the Fiscal Room: Beware the Increasing Cost And Number of Orphan Drugs
- Sweeping Changes Urged to Avoid Mass Deaths From “Superbugs”
- RX Pokemon Go
- Replace All Those Sample Closets With High-Tech Dispensing Machines
- What Does Trumpcare Mean for the Future of ACOs?
- 15th patient assistance and access programs
- Survey: Enrollees View Docs, HMOs As One and Same
- JULY 2019
- Separating Fact From Fiction: Are ACOs the Answer?
- Plastic surgeons ask: What recession?
- Etanercept Biosimilar Approved to Treat Variety of Autoimmune Diseases
- Health Care Report Cards: Who's Paying Attention?
- Copayments dominate drug cost sharing choices
- As Premium Hikes Slow, Some Brace for Famine
- Management of Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis With Biologic Therapy
- Next-Generation Sequencing Problematic, If Promising
- Drugs to Plan For in 2008
- Q&A with David M. Lawrence, MD: ‘We Changed The Way Kaiser Makes Decisions, Views Itself'
- While Gay Couples Say ‘I Do,' Health Care Often Says ‘We Don't'
- How insurers and hospitals intend to contain costs
- Immunotherapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer: A Novel Treatment Option to Improve Survival
- Where Employers, Employees Don't See Eye to Eye
- Study lethal dangers lurk even after opioid overdose rescue
- Tomorrow's Technology Is Saving Money Today
- A Tall Order From a Cautionary Tale
- Physician Groups In N.Y. and Calif. Changing Hands
- When Your Employees Are Your Focus Group
- Biosimilar market in the United States to grow slowly, Milliman says
- Cracking the patient engagement code at the Next Edge: Health Experience Summit
- Study Ranks Best and Worst States for Health Care Costs, Access
- Pfizer Touts Medicaid Data In Arguing That DM Works
- Plans Confront Specialty Pharmacy’s Escalating Costs in Variety of Ways
- Two For The Price Of One: Beauty of Pill-Splitting Catches On
- Florida Medicaid Moves Toward Direct Contracting
- Therapy for Parkinson's Psychosis Closer to Market
- New Heart Valve Avoids Sternotomy And Long Hospitalization
- Wendell Potter: Insurers will be radically different
- March 2011
- AHIP Ship Sails Rough Seas
- Expensive New Biologic Helps Children Fight Hypophosphatasia
- Index of /archives/0002
- Value-based Care Will Flop Without Clinical Integration
- Celgene settles case alleging marketing violations 280 million
- There’s no (treatment) place like home
- CDC Assembling Task Force To Contain Polio-Like Disease
- CMS Move Threatens To Put Orphan Drugs Out in Cold
- The PCMH
- 2009 costs will continue to outpace inflation
- Medical Savings Accounts: Movement Toward Individual Health Benefit Accounts
- National Mental Health Parity Bill Poised To Pass This Time Around
- New Fee Schedule For Medicare Helps Office Docs
- Tracking Trends in Plan Design: A Conversation With Blaine J. Bos
- Physician Financial Incentives: Another UM Tool Bites the Dust
- When Falling in Love Falls Out of Bounds
- Yes, DTC Presents Problems, But Pluses Can Surprise You
- Multifaceted Diabetes Program Pays Off for HealthPartners
- Written Tests Can Help You Hire the Best Medical Practice Employees
- Study: $1B Saved If Maine Should Enact Single-Payer Plan
- Are Insurers’ Prior Authorization Rules Killing Opioid Addicts?
- Report Reveals Sharp Increases in Alzheimer’s Prevalence, Deaths, and Cost of Care
- Consumer-Directed and Home-Brewed
- Finally, Attention Switches To Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
- ‘Take My Word for It': The Enduring Dispute Over Measuring DM's Economic Value
- Peter Boland PHD
- Dwindling supplies critical cancer drug bcg
- Some primary care salary increases lag behind other health care professionals
- Safety-Net Hospitals Need More TLC
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