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June 2002
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A Look at Kaiser CEO's Legacy: Faith in Quality Never Waned David M. Lawrence, MD, MPH, guided the country's largest not-for-profit health plan through the tumultuous managed care decade. |
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September 2000
John A. Marcille |
Kaiser, Aetna Keep Eyes On Health Care Consumer Sometimes breaking old ground can be just as satisfying as breaking new. What these two plans are looking at, experts believe, is a health care system moving toward defined contributions... |
Managed Care
September 2000
Frank Diamond |
'New' Aetna and Kaiser Face Future The biggest for-profit and not-for-profit MCOs have been through rough times recently. How have their corporate cultures changed? |
Managed Care
June 2002 |
'We Changed The Way Kaiser Makes Decisions, Views Itself' Lawrence's tenure as Kaiser CEO came at a tumultuous time for the country's largest classic HMO. An interview with David M. Lawrence. |
CIO
September 23, 2009
Kim S. Nash |
The Long Road to E-Health Records Kaiser Permanente's CIO stresses physician buy-in. |
Managed Care
January 2007 |
Change From Salary to Relative Value Units Leads to Higher Income for Physicians A Minnesota medical group that contracted with HealthPartners was able to improve cost of care, physician compensation, and patient access without harming patient satisfaction when the group converted from a salary payment system for physicians to one solely dependent on physician productivity. |
Managed Care
May 2005 |
Health Care Remains a Major Concern Health care ranks fourth on a list of problems that the public thinks the government should tackle, according to a report. |
Managed Care
December 2004 |
Kaiser Official Defends Decision To Launch HSAs In what appears to be a wrenching decision, Kaiser Permanente is gearing up to begin offering health savings accounts. |
Managed Care
August 2007 |
E-mailing Doctors Desirable for Those with Comorbidities Patients who have multiple comorbidities and who take multiple medications may benefit most from a secure e-mail messaging system, according to a study. |
InternetNews
January 15, 2010 |
Hard Drive Theft Nets Health Data of Thousands Breach of protocol leads to the potential loss of Kaiser Permanente patient data in California. |
Managed Care
June 2002 |
How Kaiser matches up against Britain's National Health Service The British Medical Journal this year published a comparison of Kaiser Permanente and the National Health Service, concluding that Kaiser's performance is considerably better in certain respects with similar cost. |
Managed Care
March 2008
Lola Butcher |
Health Plans Come Together for Better Outcomes Research Companies that participate in large research cooperatives such as the HMO Research Network are helping the whole medical system |
Managed Care
April 2000 |
Financial Stability Of HMOs Called A Mixed Bag An HCIA-Sachs survey says the median HMO profit margin in 1998 was -1.7 percent, slightly better than in 1997. Forty-one percent of HMOs made money in 1998.... |
Managed Care
March 2005
Frank Diamond |
Kaiser's Asthma Outcomes Will Take Your Breath Away The company's Mid-Atlantic States Region has seen impressive savings since launching a disease management program for asthma. |
Managed Care
February 2007 |
Companies Complain About Costs A survey of 12,000 top-level benefit and human resource managers reveals the impact of high health care costs on their company. |
Managed Care
September 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Experiment To Help Frail Elderly Not Worth Cost, Detractors Say Social health maintenance organizations (SHMOs) -- a long-running but generally little-known experiment by the federal government to combine social services with expanded Medicare benefits to keep the frail elderly in their homes -- may soon come to an end... |
Managed Care
November 1999
John A. Marcille |
A Few Clear Voices Will Always Rise Above the Din ...We asked prominent, thoughtful people in health care to discuss the future... |
Managed Care
November 1999
Peter I. Juhn, M.D. |
An Evidence-Based Approach To Care Depends on All Parties -- Physicians Included ...transforming the delivery of care into a systematic approach that is based on the best medical evidence -- is dependent on more than just laying out the rules... |
Managed Care
March 2002
Michael D. Dalzell |
Defined Contribution: Threat or Fad? Sensing an invasion of their territory, MCOs are jumping into a market forged by a group of upstarts. The development renews a fundamental debate about the juxtaposition of consumer involvement, cost containment, cost shifting, and quality of care... |
