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Managed Care December 2003	Chiropractor-Directed Care Could Boost Costs by 30% Helping to mend back strains and sprains for workers costs 30 percent more to achieve similar outcomes when directed by a chiropractor instead of a physician, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 December 2001	Specialist compensation outpaces primary care Specialists' compensation has risen steadily in recent years, according to the Medical Group Management Association...
Managed Care October 2003	Physician compensation trend differs depending on whom you ask Primary care physicians experienced a 2.8 percent median increase in compensation last year, and specialists in general reported a 4.3 percent median increase, although some notable medical specialties experienced decreases in compensation.
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 February 2004	Primary care salaries hold steady Primary care salaries hold steady while specialists salaries soar.
Managed Care July 2003	Where physician executives can expect the best pay Medical directors of single-specialty groups lead pack
Managed Care June 2002	Physician incomes rise in academia Compensation continues to increase for most physician categories in academic medical settings, according to a survey by the Medical Group Management Association.
Managed Care March 2005	Family practice base salary continues to improve Base salaries of family practice physicians increase.
Managed Care July 2007 John Marcille	Perverse Incentives Abound, But Maybe We Can Control Them With all the intellectual capital working on the problem of provider compensation, you'd think perverse incentives would be curbed.
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 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 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 December 2007 John Carroll	How Doctors Are Paid Now, And Why It Has to Change Everyone knows about the perverse incentive of fee-for-service medicine, but that hasn't had much effect on its use.
Managed Care March 2006	Compensation Monitor Higher salaries go to clinical executives who hold business degrees.
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...
Managed Care April 2000	Physician payment may hinge on quality, not quantity, in 2010 The Institute for the Future, a not-for-profit research group, suggests that over the next 10 years, performance-based payment mechanisms will gain popularity....
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 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.
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 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 March 2006	Standard Measures In Works For P4P Push Uncle Sam has decided to get behind the pay-for-performance effort in a big way, something some physician associations are less than thrilled about.
Managed Care July 2007 Tom Reinke	Better Ways to Pay Providers Paying for coordinating care and for packages of services -- bundling and episodes of care -- may be the best bet for a modification of the unfettered fee-for-service system.
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...
Managed Care April 2001	U.S. Health Care 'Substandard,' Says IOM Report Managed care -- a whipping boy for all that is wrong with health care in the U.S. -- is not to blame for a badly fragmented system that provides incentives to treat acute episodes and not manage chronic illness, according to the Institute of Medicine's landmark report...
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 April 2001	Compensation, patient-care time vary widely by practice size Self-employed physicians who practice with one or more other doctors tend to spend more time in patient-care activities than solo practitioners -- and their compensation reflects that...
Managed Care September 2004	Four Physician Specialties Report Double-Digit Gains Cardiologists, dermatologists, gastroenterologists, and pathologists in particular, enjoyed the largest increases in compensation in 2003.
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 April 2006	Pay-for-Performance Champions Excited by California Program's Success A quality incentive program in California is yielding results that could be replicated in Medicare and other pay-for-performance (P4P) programs nationwide according to a new report.
Managed Care August 2002	Life may be better without a white coat Are clinical duties holding you back from a bigger paycheck? If you're a group practice medical director, maybe so.
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.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Al Topin	Less Selling, More Time What can happen when pharmaceutical reps focus on the physician-patient conversation?
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 December 2004 Martin Sipkoff	A Better Case for Quality: Share the Savings! Brent James's research has led to a new and powerful vision of paying for performance that binds physicians, plans and hospitals together.
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 March 2001 Mark D. Abruzzo	'Final' Stark Regulations Still a Work in Progress The Stark Law generally prohibits physicians from referring Medicare patients for certain designated health services to entities with which the physician (or immediate family members) has a financial relationship...
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...
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 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 July 2003 Arthur Lazarus	Physician Executives Don't Have To Go It Alone Mentors and support groups can help you avoid being fired. And if the worst does happen, they can facilitate your comeback.
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...