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Managed Care June 2002 John A. Marcille	Lawrence Accomplished Much As Kaiser Permanente's CEO A look at the outgoing CEO of a health plan.
Managed Care June 2002 Frank Diamond	Meet George C. Halvorson When it selected the person who would become only the fourth CEO in Kaiser Permanente's history, it may have seemed that the health plan reached beyond its own culture.
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.
Managed Care 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 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.
CIO September 23, 2009 Kim S. Nash	The Long Road to E-Health Records Kaiser Permanente's CIO stresses physician buy-in.
Managed Care March 2002 Charles Downey	The Department of Managed Care California sets a precedent again, with a bold effort to regulate the HMO industry. While the new Department of Managed Health Care is facing down 50,000 consumer gripes monthly, director Daniel Zingale intends to keep administrative red tape from overwhelming everyone...
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...
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 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 July 2002	Money isn't everything Physicians are fairly happy with their incomes, but unhappy with the number of hours they have to work, as well as with the ancillary duties involved in practicing medicine, according to a survey.
Fast Company May 2010 Elizabeth Svoboda	Designing the Perfect Health Care Clinic At Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Center, Hollywood-style sets help planners create a patient-friendly blueprint for the future of health care.
Managed Care April 2007 Daniel Y. Patterson	HMO - 21st Century Model The history of HMOs has been one of conflict between plans and physicians. Could global specialty capitation be a better way?
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 June 2002 Bob Carlson	First Business, Now Health Care: Signing Away One's Right To Sue More and more, mandatory arbitration clauses are surfacing in agreements between businesses and individuals. Will the line be drawn at managed care?
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 2001 Frank Diamond	Why HMOs Could Thrive In the Economic Downturn It happened in the slump of the early 1990s, and it could very well happen again. Managed care feasts while other industries starve. People will still get sick, even in bad times...
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 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 October 2000	Employer-based coverage up in strong economy Health insurance premiums rose 8.3 percent over the past year for all types of coverage, according to an annual survey of employers...
Managed Care October 2004	Kaiser Seen as Biggest Earner as HMO Profits Soared in 2003 The good times rolled on for the nation's HMOs in 2003. The industry nearly doubled its profits, earning $10.2 billion, an 86 percent increase from the $5.5 billion it earned in 2002.
Managed Care January 2007 Maureen Glabman	Will 'Mea Culpa' Work for Health Plans Too? Hospitals and physicians, to varying degrees, are finding that doing the right thing is good business practice.
Managed Care March 2006 Patrick Mullen	Leveling the Field for Docs and Plans: A Conversation with Lucinda (Cindy) Ehnes, JD The director of California's Department of Managed Health Care sees problems if high-deductible plans replace the state's 'delegated model.'
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.
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 July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Momentum Shifts Toward Consumer-Directed Plans Looking at past enrollment shifts and at the evolution of managed care can shed light on how to compete in the new market for account-based consumer-directed care.
Managed Care May 2002	Small employers plan to shift increased costs to workers Small companies -- those with 3 to 24 employees -- are bracing for continuing health care cost increases, and indicate that they may have to shift more of that expense to workers
Managed Care April 2002	Third-Party Review Process Called Effective, Underused Health plan enrollees who take their complaints about coverage issues to an independent reviewer have a good chance of getting HMO decisions overturned -- but very few people take advantage of this system..
Financial Planning April 1, 2013 Ilana Polyak	Investing the Islamic Way Adhering to Shariah principles, Amana Growth is also attractive to many non-Muslims.
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 May 2003	Latinos more likely to be uninsured, says study Latinos are much more likely to report being uninsured than whites or blacks, according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Job Journal June 24, 2007 Julia Hollister	RNs Take Their Pick of Perks, Pay & Programs In short supply, RNs enjoy signing bonuses and generous perks.
Managed Care January 2001	Public's Definition of Quality Focused on Medical Errors A survey jointly sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Research and Quality and the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that information about medical errors and malpractice suits is what people find to be most helpful when determining provider quality...
Managed Care June 2003 Frank Diamond	How To Manage the Worried Well They have symptoms, but that doesn't mean primary care physicians can pinpoint a physical problem. Yet they do suffer, and are a cost center for insurers and employers.
Managed Care May 2003	E-Health Gives Kaiser Role In Bioterror Fight Kaiser Permanente has launched a computerized surveillance system designed to alert public health officials to possible disease outbreaks.
Salon.com June 19, 2001 Damien Cave	Can the Net be trusted? Online philanthropy appeals are often hoaxes. But even when someone's really hurting, it pays to do your homework...
Managed Care January 2002 Frank Diamond	Making the Case for a 'Health Care Fed' A U.S. government agency, some argue, should be created to rule on usefulness of medications, equipment, and procedures. Britain has just instituted such a system...
Managed Care October 2007	CDHPs Aren't Catching On Despite the extensive attention paid to consumer-directed health plans, a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that these types of plan arrangements have made only small inroads in the employer market.
HBS Working Knowledge June 4, 2007 Sean Silverthorne	Is Health Care Making You Better--or Dead? Today's American health care system is set up structurally to reward the major players - hospitals, health insurers, and lawmakers - while short-changing patients and taxpayers.
Managed Care March 2002	How Medicare beneficiaries spend money on drugs The Kaiser Family Foundation notes that Medicare beneficiaries account for 14 percent of the U.S. population, but for 43 percent of the nation's spending on prescription drugs. Thirteen percent of beneficiaries had to pay $2,000 or more out of pocket in 2001...
Managed Care August 2002	Patients' unpaid bills come from physicians, hospitals With health care costs rising and the number of uninsured Americans close to 40 million, physicians and hospitals are feeling the pinch.