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Managed Care December 2002 Diane Cook	Beware the Hidden Consequences of the Malpractice Crisis Soaring malpractice insurance rates are thinning out provider ranks in at least a dozen states. Could access problems pose issues for HMOs in those areas?
AskMen.com Tara Weiss	Reasons Not To Become A Doctor There were once many rewards to being in the medical profession. For decades, doctors earned hefty paychecks, had autonomy and respect. Those benefits are fading, and as a result, so is the number of doctors.
Managed Care January 2002 Donald Wilcox & Stephanie Kanwit	Debating RICO Suits vs. Health Plans States Failed To Protect Docs From Insurers... Patients Will Suffer; Greedy Lawyers to Blame...
Managed Care December 2000 Michael S. Victoroff	A Modest, Not Satirical, Proposal For Assisted-Suicide Decisions I would like to offer an alternate model that would dramatically refocus a critical aspect of the ethical controversy. I would ask advocates of assisted suicide, "Why must this involve physicians? Why not have judges do it?"
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 May 2003 Michael S. Victoroff	Keep Politics Out of Examining Room Physicians, like teachers, and clergy, are among those professions that enjoy particular respect. They must preserve equanimity in the face of ephemeral social movements.
Managed Care May 2005 Michael S. Victoroff	Class Action Suit: Windfall or Just Wind? Is using the tort system and class action lawsuits the best way to solve problems between business professionals? That and $54.37 can go toward the creation of a foundation to bring about meaningful organizational change.
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.
BusinessWeek June 17, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Why the AMA Will Likely Support Health-Care Reform Obama's plan might lower specialists' pay, but it would help primary-care doctors, save the industry billions, and please voters.
Managed Care June 2003	Malpractice Fury Raises Concerns About Access Protests by physicians over rising malpractice insurance premiums may be signaling a political shift that could make doctors see Republicans as their allies, a public-advocacy official thinks.
AskMen.com Dustin Driver	How To Check A Doctor's Credentials Here's a five-step plan to finding a good doctor.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2011 Cabacungan & Clark	New Ways to Gain New Brand Insights If you can learn to understand patient and physician behavior, you are well on your way to strengthening the position of your product.
Managed Care June 2003	'Doctors take oaths, lawyers take money' A review of the hourly compensation rates of lawyers and physicians by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals, however, greater increases in hourly wages reported by physicians from 1997 through 2001 than by their lawyer counterparts.
Managed Care November 2002 Sharon Baker	Applause, Catcalls Greet Retainer Medicine Proponents tout personalized care and easy access, and imply superior health care. Critics fear "elitist" practices.
Managed Care November 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Don't Count on Data Bank Being Opened Any Time Soon What are the chances that Congress will soon enact legislation that will allow the public to tap into the National Practitioner Data Bank electronically to obtain information about its providers' professional history and conduct? Somewhere between slim and none...
Managed Care October 2004 Michael S. Victoroff	'Dr. Jeeves' Gives Rich Medical Star Treatment Boutique medicine is dysfunctional, but probably not unethical, so long as the lucky patients understand that they're not necessarily paying for better care.
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?
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 James Warren	Commentary: General Practitioners Need to Make More Money These doctors are grossly underpaid compared with specialists. A federal panel wants to reduce the discrepancy.
Managed Care January 2004 Michael S. Victoroff	Logic Flies When EMRs Debated A chance encounter with an unhappy reader (a physician) spurs a flood cliches about why doctors are "justified" in their refusal to move out of the dark ages
Managed Care August 2002 Maureen Glabman	Lobbyists That the Founders Just Never Dreamed of The "right ... to petition the government" has come a long way in over 200 years, and health care organizations are not shy in exercising it.
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...
Managed Care July 2001 John Carroll	AMA Slams Managed Care Even As Leadership Splinters The wild calls for patients' rights at the House of Delegates meeting did not prevent the chief executive from suing the board of trustees...
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.
CIO September 27, 2013	How IT Can Produce Better Patient Care For Dr. Bob Laskowski, president and CEO of Christiana Care Health System, technology means empowering physicians and patients.
Managed Care August 2001	Four Views of Managed Care Ethics The evolution of managed care has posed ethical problems for physicians, plan administrators, and even patients. Four ethicists find that questions are many, while satisfactory answers are in short supply...
Managed Care October 2000 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Steven B. Epstein, J.D. This pioneering medical legal authority says health plans and physicians should stop fighting over scraps the government throws them...
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2005 Lena Chow	Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market.
Managed Care October 2004	AMA to Congress: Make Plans Respond Within 5 Minutes AMA delegates at the organization's annual meeting this year complained that doctors often have to wait more than 20 minutes to get an approval, often with the patient in the examining room.
Financial Advisor June 2010 Andrew Gluck	Advising Doctors As medical economics change for the worse, both physicians and their financial advisors are getting organized.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2012 Al Topin	Doctors' Words No Longer Gospel In the digital age, physicians don't call the shots when it comes to healthcare guidance. Marketers must appeal to multiple sources in seeking ways to garner patient adherence and loyalty.
Managed Care November 2002 Michael S. Victoroff	When Falling in Love Falls Out of Bounds The subject of physician-patient boundaries illustrates how well-intentioned policy can be written in a way that is simply too shallow to serve the goals of ethics
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?
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.
HBS Working Knowledge February 21, 2005 Khurana & Nohria	Is Business Management a Profession? If management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue Harvard professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria, and research associate Daniel Penrice.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2011 Jerry Coamey	Engage the Physician! New research shows that gauging the mind of the clinician is crucial to timely uptake of the new diagnostic tools offered by the genomic revolution
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2005 Ame Wadler	PR: In the Loop Pharma marketers can help doctors stay abreast of the news.
Managed Care April 2006 John Carroll	Some Specialist Societies Feel Left Out of AMA-CMS Deal on P4P Many physicians question the fairness of a deal between the American Medical Association and the government that give doctors a bonus when they follow certain rules.
Managed Care November 2003 John Carroll	"Concierge Care" by Any Name Raises Ethical Concerns Medical directors at managed care organizations have been hard-pressed to come to a consensus on just how -- or whether -- this new wrinkle in the managed care business fits in.
BusinessWeek April 23, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened.
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.
Financial Advisor December 2006 Raymond Fazzi	Strong Financial Medicine Specializing in health care professionals is an advisory specialty that is now both worthwhile and in high demand because of the complexity of issues that come along with serving medical practitioners.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Al Topin	Less Selling, More Time What can happen when pharmaceutical reps focus on the physician-patient conversation?
Salon.com December 1, 1999 James B. Stewart	Who's watching the docs? The code of silence in hospitals allows deadly mistakes to happen, but some simple reforms could help...
Fast Company April 2006	"MD" Doesn't Mean "Mostly Digital" How technologically backward are U.S. doctors? Here are some statistics.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Paul Greenberg	Medical Education: Real-Time CME News-based CME helps doctors stay on top of new medical information and changes in treatment -- before their patients do.
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.
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.
Reason September 2004 Maia Szalavitz	Dr. Feelscared U.S. drug warriors put the fear of prosecution in physicians who dare to treat pain. While the OxyContin panic does not seem to have deterred addicts, it has scared doctors.