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American Family Physician August 15, 2000 James Hallenbeck	Curbside Consultation When should a physician disclose personal information to a patient, and what do we do when a particular case touches on our own suffering? At a deeper level, how do we deal with our own mortality in caring for the seriously ill and dying?
Managed Care July 2007	Managed Care Outlook The future holds too few docs.
Managed Care February 2008	Women Increasingly Fill Medical Director Role Women hold a 30 percent greater share of physician executive jobs than they did 10 years ago.
Managed Care January 2006	Compensation Monitor A recent poll reveals that doctors distrust pay for performance programs.
Managed Care November 2003 Patrick Mullen	Physician Executives Need Not Fly Blind Kathleen Montgomery is in the forefront of efforts to define the unique domain of doctors who become managers. One thing she knows for sure: Trustworthiness is everything.
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 April 2000	With AMAP Gone, Quality Judgments In Hands of Others When the American Medical Association shut down its physician accreditation program, AMAP, last month, several physician leaders expressed concern that the profession had lost its best chance to demonstrate efficient, high-quality care....
Managed Care December 2003 Frank Diamond	Dr. Do-Good and Mr. Bottom-Line How medical directors reconcile the contradictory demands of physician and executive roles.
Managed Care May 2006	Physician Disclosure Strengthens Patients' Trust Patients who received a disclosure felt more competent to judge the effect of their physician's compensation on their health care, and nearly a quarter of patients who remembered receiving a disclosure reported that it had increased their trust in their primary care physician.
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.
Managed Care January 2004	Opportunities abound for physician executives Physician executives who are considering leaving management positions in managed care organizations should look to greener pastures at practice management companies, medical/health care associations, health system corporate offices, and foundations.
Managed Care August 2000	Internet revolution not yet impressing most physicians For all the potential of the Internet to erase old physician doubts about integrating information technology into everyday practice, scant few doctors have embraced it.
Managed Care July 2006	Physicians' Real Income Continues to Fall Adjusted for inflation, physicians' net income from the practice of medicine declined 7% between 1995 and 2003, according to a national study.
Fast Company April 2006	"MD" Doesn't Mean "Mostly Digital" How technologically backward are U.S. doctors? Here are some statistics.
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 February 2005	Different methods used to gauge doc performance Just how physician performance is measured has become more important as P4P programs proliferate.
Managed Care December 2001 Alan G. Adler	Executive Coach Helps Physician Adjust to Life as Medical Director The skills that had served me so well in my medical practice didn't help me much in the managed care business world...
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.
AskMen.com April 15, 2001 Joshua Levine	Choosing The Right Doctor Choosing a doctor is one of the most important decisions you can make. It's probably best made when you are healthy and have some time to think about a number of possibilities. If you don't have a doctor or are thinking about changing doctors, now may be the best time to look...
Managed Care February 2007	Quality is Important, But Productivity Rules Despite a rise in the use of quality incentives to determine physician compensation, productivity remains the predominant determinant.
Managed Care May 2001	Demand's cool for primary care physicians Although they're not quite an endangered species, primary care physicians aren't exactly in high demand these days, either. That's been the experience of a national physician search and recruitment firm...
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 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 May 2003 Bob Carlson	Shared Appointments Improve Efficiency in the Clinic Do more with less -- that's what we all must learn. In the physician's office, when patients share their doctor's time, everyone benefits.
Managed Care April 2000 Karen L. Trespacz, J.D.	League of Their Own: What Makes a Winning IPA? In a familiar cartoon, a professor writes long, learned equations on a blackboard. To connect the profundities on either end, he writes in the middle, "Then a miracle occurs." IPAs, done well, are the miracles that connect the ends of health care.
Managed Care September 2002	Physician prescribing rates climb One reason that spending on medications has increased during the last 15 years is that physicians are turning to pharmaceuticals to help patients battle comorbidities, according to a study in Health Affairs.
Managed Care September 2006	Malpractice Premiums Constitute Small Component of Expenses Few issues galvanize the medical community like the cost of malpractice insurance, but a recent survey shows that the increases are less severe than many physician advocacy groups suggest.
Managed Care November 2004	Abandonment of Capitation May Inflate MCO's Costs Medical groups and IPAs in strong managed care markets are significantly less likely to use fee-for-service methods to pay their physician members than are organizations in markets with less managed care presence.
Managed Care July 2000	New Protections In California Not Helping Docs For all the talk of change in the state of California's ability to govern health care delivery, it appears that one group -- physicians -- is falling through the cracks.
Managed Care December 2005	Health Plan Medical Directors Doing Well Medical directors at health plans saw a 7.2% rise in mean direct compensation from 2003 to 2005.
Managed Care January 2002 Ed Rabinowitz	When Physicians' Skills Fail, Collaboration Beats Punishment New programs hold promise for rehabilitating sound physicians who have, for any number of reasons, lost some of the skills they started with...
Managed Care May 2003	Liability insurance premium hikes take bite out of physicians' income No wonder increases in physician liability insurance premiums have caused such uproar over the last year. Data show that physician income rose from 1999 to 2001. Liability insurance premiums skyrocketed, however, siphoning off an even greater portion of physician income.
Managed Care June 2004 Tony Berberabe	Welcome to the Brave, New (Electronic) World, Doctor WellPoint is providing free handheld or even desktop computers in an effort toward minimizing medication errors. Will docs finally abandon pen and pad?
Managed Care July 2000	Are Gatekeepers Failing To Control Specialty Costs? The importance of a gatekeeper in keeping costs down has been challenged again -- this time in a study that compares physician utilization for HMOs and point-of-service plans.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2012	The Personal Touch in Digital Promotion The shift from sales rep meetings to digital selling methods must include innovation and a physician-centered mindset in order to be successful.
American Family Physician November 15, 2005 Haas et al.	Management of the Difficult Patient All physicians must care for some patients who are perceived as difficult because of behavioral or emotional aspects that affect their care. Specific communication techniques and greater patient involvement in the process of care may enhance the relationship.
Managed Care January 2008	Emerging Role for New Niche Specialists New physician specialists like laborists, surgicalists, and nocturnists are beginning to fill specific niches in the provider market.
Managed Care September 2003	Primary care pay falls again Primary care physicians' compensation continues to decline, according to the American Medical Group Association's 2003 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity survey.
Managed Care April 2007	Physicians Oppose Public Disclosure of Quality Although 3 out of 4 primary care physicians support the use of financial rewards as an incentive for better medical care, the majority would rather not make quality assessments readily available to the public, according to a recent survey.
Managed Care July 2001 Harry L. Leider	HMOs Need To Share Gains of DM Programs Physicians are more likely to buy in if they see better outcomes -- and financial rewards that go with them...
Managed Care November 2000 Jeffrey J. Denning	How's Your Office Manager Doing? Don't Let Question Just Hang There Every worker needs a performance review at least once a year. So, who reviews the reviewer? You do...
Managed Care July 2005	Economically, country mouse does better Although lower income in rural areas is often cited as an obstacle to recruitment of physicians, one study suggests rural and urban areas do not differ significantly - at least, in terms of income.
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 September 1999	Physicians Seen As Next in Line For NCQA Review The National Committee for Quality Assurance says it will begin an accreditation program for medical groups two years from now....
Managed Care October 2005	Salary Slowdown Reported for Specialists Compensation growth for specialists fell behind that of primary care physicians in 2004 for the first time in several years, according to a survey.
Managed Care September 2002	Medicare holds down physician pay Compensation increased at a comparatively small rate from 2000 to 2001 for both primary care physicians and specialists, according to the Medical Group Management Association.
American Family Physician April 1, 2002 Forrest Lang	Interviewing When Family Members Are Present The presence of family members at an office visit creates unique opportunities and challenges for the physician while interviewing the patient. The physician must address issues of confidentiality, privacy, and agency...
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2013 Al Topin	The Doctor-Patient Disconnect Doctor-patient conversations aren't always what we think; this basic interaction represents both a problem and an opportunity for today's drug marketers, says the author.
American Family Physician November 1, 2003 Stovall & Domino	Approaching the Suicidal Patient In an attempt to help the family physician prevent suicide, this article reviews known risk factors and offers a strategy for assessing and addressing these factors in individual patients.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2007 Jack Schember	Sales Management: Cleaning House A well-maintained database is the key to maximum doctor outreach.