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Managed Care April 2005 Frank Diamond	Starting Medicare Advantage Plan Brings Special Set of Problems The feds will help you launch a health plan for the elderly, but just what does it take to get something like this operating in so short a time?
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Managed Care August 2004	Headlines On Deadline ... Expanded Medicare coverage for obesity is the result of the government's removal of language from the Medicare manual that states that the condition is not an illness... Earnings soared 36 percent for UnitedHealth Group in the second quarter... etc.
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