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Managed Care December 2007 Lola Butcher	Insurers Get Involved in Campaign Against Hospital-Acquired Infections Health plans prod hospitals to do a better job of addressing problems that kill nearly 100,000 Americans a year.
Managed Care November 2007 Lola Butcher	Blues Build on CMS Program To Boost Hospital Quality The insurer throws support behind a pay-for-performance program that promises "stunning" advances in cost-effectiveness.
Managed Care December 2004 Adler & Schukman	The Role of Managed Care In Patient Safety & Error Reduction Patient safety and medical errors have become the focus of increasing attention from the public, policymakers, and accreditation agencies. Managed care organizations clearly are important stakeholders in this issue.
Nursing Management April 2009 Sharon H. Pappas	Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome.
Managed Care June 2001 Jack McCain	Leapfrog Group Actions Will Be Felt Throughout the Health Care System Thanks to a Business Roundtable-sponsored group calling for better outcomes at hospitals, health plans' lobbying efforts may pay off...
American Journal of Nursing August 2008	Compliance with Hand Hygiene Guidelines: Where Are we in 2008? Hospitals may best improve hand hygiene among its staff by assessing the barriers to it, measuring the rates of compliance, educating staff on the importance of hand hygiene, making sanitizing products more available for staff use, and holding staff accountable.
BusinessWeek January 7, 2010 Catherine Arnst	Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs - and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists.
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Managed Care September 2005 Ed Silverman	No Easy Fit For Specialty Hospitals Insurers worry that specialty hospitals will ultimately increase costs at nearby community hospitals
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 2003	Employer Coalition Leaps at Challenge of Grappling With Misaligned Incentives The executive director of the Leapfrog Group says that the organization pleads guilty to trying to create 'aspirational' standards for health care.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Querna & Fischman	Good Medical Help Close to Home Your local hospital might be just as good as any glittery big-name center. Finding out if your local hospital is up to snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue.
Managed Care May 2007 MargaretAnn Cross	Following the Leaders Top pay-for-performance programs point to increased focus on hospital incentives, efficiency measures, coordination, and standardization.
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 December 2006 Lola Butcher	ICUs Cut Costs by Hiring Intensivists Now that the value of hospitalists is well established, attention turns to those whose only duties are in intensive care.
Managed Care March 2005	Headlines On Deadline ... Metabolic syndrome... PPO for underinsured... Hospital infections... Computerized drug prescription mistakes...
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006	Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities.
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InternetNews June 27, 2006 Michael Hickins	Hospital, HMO Ratings 'Open' to Public New York State adopts online scorecards allowing employers and consumers to review local hospitals and HMOs.
Managed Care April 2007	Consumers Upset By High Cost of Administration When it comes to health care administrations, there is a wide gap between what executives of hospitals and insurance companies believe it costs and what consumers believe.
BusinessWeek May 29, 2006 Howard Gleckman	Medicine's Industrial Revolution Medical treatments that are proven to work reach only about half of the Americans who need them, according to a series of studies by RAND Corp. And in hospitals, simple measures that protect patients' lives are often hard to implement.
Nursing Management June 2011 LaRocco & Pinchera	The emerging trend of medical tourism Although it's difficult to find accurate data, there's general agreement that the number of Americans seeking medical care abroad is growing.
Managed Care December 2006 MargaretAnn Cross	Confronting The Medicare Cost Shift Plans are increasingly concerned about the degree to which providers overcharge them to make up for losses from government programs.
Managed Care June 2003 Maureen Glabman	Managed Care Makes It Tough For Some Hospitals To Stay Afloat True, there are other reasons the facilities have closed, but insurers' payment rates stand out. Is it better that some are history?
Managed Care March 2007	Competition Wins Over Centralization Insurers who recommend a particular provider or health care organization to a patient considering a surgical procedure need to determine how complex the procedure is and how frequently the surgeon performs the procedure.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Triad Hospitals Looking Healthy The rural hospital operator is in good shape. All the same, the current P/E looks a little robust for a company that will most likely grow in the mid-teens for the next few years.
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BusinessWeek March 28, 2005	Crusader for Clearer E-Info Entrepreneur Jonathan S. Bush -- yes he's related -- discusses how Web-based medical records can become a workable reality
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Managed Care February 2006 Sharon Baker	Hospitalists No Longer Novel Increased emphasis on improving quality and patient safety in hospitals, growing pressures to reduce costs, and new limits on residency work hours have all led to an explosion in the number of physicians who work solely in hospitals.
Managed Care May 2002 John Carroll	Hospital Copayments: At What Cost? High daily copayments for high-priced hospitals are coming into fashion. It's all about shifting costs, but what about quality of care?
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Nursing Management January 2011 Dawn Chiarenza	The CNO/ROI Factor of Accreditation In a time of healthcare reimbursement changes and budget cuts, CNOs seeking Magnet recognition must be able to emphasize benefits to organizational leadership-including return on investment.
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Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Specialty Hospitals' Success Sows Seeds of Lobbying Fight Some in government question the propriety of physicians steering patients into facilities that the doctors partly own.
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HBS Working Knowledge June 13, 2005 Sara Grant	From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology Turf wars and learning curves influence how new technology is adopted in hospitals. Harvard professors discuss the implications of their research for your organization.
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Managed Care March 2008 John Carroll	Aetna and Hannaford Make a Singapore Connection Some insurers are taking tentative steps toward developing global provider networks for corporate clients looking to reduce costs by having medical procedures performed in less expensive countries.