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Managed Care June 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Re-Emergence of the Primary Care Physician A new model of care developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians places primary care physicians back at the center of care delivery.
Managed Care September 2004 Tony Berberabe	Can Physician and Health Plan Get Together Over Guidelines? Physicians are not the only problem. Health plans too often view guidelines as rigid routines rather than flexible aids to good practice.
Nursing Management September 2009 Richard Hader	Six Ways to Zero Defects Care delivery that's safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable is the challenge set forth by the Institute of Medicine in an effort to reduce medical-related errors
HBS Working Knowledge November 23, 2009 Martha Lagace	Management's Role in Reforming Health Care An interview with HBS professor Richard M.J. Bohmer, MD, and an excerpt from his book Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care.
Managed Care February 2002 Bob Carlson	Why You Should Care About Improving Clinical Practice Research on quality of care began over 30 years ago. Pages and pages document recent evidence of underuse, overuse, and misuse of resources. Yet only now does change appear imminent, thanks to a growing cadre of passionate reformers who preach clinical practice improvement...
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Managed Care November 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Rocky Mountain's Success with Chronic Care Model Paying for medical group practice redesign can significantly enhance the quality of care for chronically ill patients, and perhaps lower long-term costs.
HBS Working Knowledge June 28, 2010 Julia Hanna	HBS Cases: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center This case explores how one hospital implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall performance levels from below average to the top 10 percent in the industry.
Managed Care May 2006 Michael Levin-Epstein	Looking for a Better Way To Manage Care Can primary care physicians persuade health plans and Medicare to accept their version of the chronic care model?
Managed Care May 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Will Pay for Performance Programs Introduce a New Set of Problems? Paying incentives to physicians to practice evidence-based medicine appears to be an idea whose time has come. Such programs -- even if successful -- may create a new set of problems.
Managed Care January 2005 Alice G. Gosfield	P4P: Transitional at Best Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs promise a fair shake for provider and insurance plan, but a former chairman of the National Committee for Quality Assurance sees many design flaws to overcome.
Managed Care June 2007 MargaretAnn Cross	What the Primary Care Physician Shortage Means for Health Plans Insurers fear rising costs and poorer outcomes if members are less able to get appointments with family physicians and general internists.
Fast Company Tim Stevens	12 Signs Your Company Has An Enviable Workplace Culture There is nothing worse than working in an organization that has a bad culture.
Managed Care November 2005 Frank Diamond	Physicians and Plans Can Get Along Hill Physicians Medical Group, one of the largest IPAs in the country, has learned to deliver what managed care plans want
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.
Managed Care April 2000 Tim Olsen	Physician, Tarnish Not Thine Image Doctors who use the news media to criticize others, rather than initiate a constructive dialog about difficult issues such as antibiotic resistance, help erode the profession's influence.
Managed Care February 2002 Joyce Ochs	E-Prescribing Gets More Enticing Physicians today are writing prescriptions for patients on palm-held devices that seem eerily akin to medical practice on the Starship Enterprise...
Managed Care July 2005 Martin Sipkoff	Is Pay for Performance Part of the Cure or the Problem? Paying for performance promises improved quality, reduced cost, and higher income for doctors. So why are some of them worried?
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Managed Care September 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Go Carefully When Measuring Quality Gauging and rewarding good work in health care is a noble goal with potentially negative consequences.
Managed Care May 2007 David A. Sparrow	Pay for Performance: As Much About Costs as About Quality You don't really have a true pay-for-performance program if it doesn't say so on the bottom line.
Managed Care January 2005	Private Practice Physicians Find Dual Role Challenging When it comes to balancing the role of business owner and practicing physician, many private practice doctors are having a tough time of it.
Managed Care February 2002 Alan M. Muney	Evidence-Based Medicine Needs To Be Promoted More Vigorously This means using a carrot-and-stick approach with physicians. Those who respect the evidence should be rewarded; others should face penalties...
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...
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Managed Care May 2005	New Model, More Money for Family Docs A new practice-level financial model described in the report "Future of Family Medicine" estimates that a five-physician practice could see a 26 percent increase in compensation if it implemented this model and continued to use the current fee-for-service system of payment.
Managed Care June 2001 Frank Diamond	HMO/Physician Strain Creates Invisible Costs Perhaps goodwill is too much to ask for. However, peaceful coexistence can certainly help all players reach their mutual goal -- a smooth relationship that helps to get the job done...
Managed Care October 2002 Pamela L. Popp	How To -- And Not To -- Disclose Medical Errors to Patients Health care facilities and physician practices must commence development and implementation of a disclosure policy. The policy should include a statement of the need and willingness of the patient and physician to have an open and honest relationship and a constant dialogue.
Managed Care July 2003 Ed Silverman	A Little Something For the Physicians Health plans know that getting along with physicians is important, and many are trying new initiatives. Here are some successes.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 Charlene Prounis	Marketing to Professionals: Doctor-Patient Communication Improving doctor-patient relations can lead to increased patient compliance.
Managed Care October 2002 Joyce Ochs	Decision Support Made Practical Making all the necessary information easily accessible is the motivation behind today's decision-support products. Most of them are called clinical information systems or primary care information systems and are designed for practicing physicians.
Managed Care August 2001	In Calif., Bonuses Based on Quality, Not Cost Savings Blue Cross of California has decided to move away from the traditional managed care incentive of rewarding physicians for controlling medical costs, and instead will implement a program in which physicians receive bonuses for quality of care and patient satisfaction...
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	What the Devil Is Information Therapy? Welcome to information therapy, the practice of providing more and better information to patients so they can contribute more to their healing.
Managed Care October 2007 John Carroll	Early Tiered Networks Encounter Many Obstacles From dodgy data to uncooperative doctors, difficulties confront health plans that are trying to stratify providers by cost and quality.
Managed Care May 2000 Mark G. Weiner, M.D., and Eric Pifer, M.D.	Computerized Decision Support and the Quality of Care The notion of quality of care in medicine is not new, but it is becoming increasingly important as the competitive health care market demands objective measures to compare physicians, hospitals, and managed care organizations....
Managed Care July 2002 Bob Carlson	Working Too Hard, Doctor? Poor Work Flow Could Be To Blame Notions of workplace efficiency, value, and quality that have evolved over the last several decades are only recently being applied in health care.
Managed Care October 2005 Bob Carlson	What Docs Hate Most About Plans Some insurers seem to have a knack for irritating their network physicians. The list is long, but five categories of irritants seem to recur most often.
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 David A. Twibell	House Calls Working with physicians can be rewarding, but to be successful, advisors need to develop the skills to tackle the unique problems facing doctors.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Musacchio & Hunkler	More Than a Game of Keep Away The Prescribing Data Restriction Program takes effect in July. The AMA explains how individual doctors can keep their prescribing habits safe from reps, and how pharma can keep using the anonymous data -- if the industry polices itself.
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Managed Care March 2002 Bob Carlson	Getting Patients in the Door Faster Can Boost Satisfaction, Outcomes Office-based medical practice hasn't changed substantially in many years, so it's not surprising that it no longer serves consumers or physicians well...
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Managed Care April 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Plans Go Directly to Patients, Describing Treatment Options HMOs are developing programs that encourage patients to question their physicians about their treatment options. Doctors are wary.
Managed Care October 2000 Maureen Glabman	Giving Some Ground to Physicians Helped Turn Health System Around One hospital system accepted the general wisdom a few years ago by acquiring physician practices. Now it bucks the new wisdom by holding on to them...
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