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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 January 2005 Sharon Baker	Breast Cancer Screening: Some Plans Do Better Than Others Some of the nation's best health plans are coming up with creative ways to encourage women to get mammograms.
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.
American Family Physician December 15, 2002 Randhawa & Fink	Screening for Breast Cancer A case study and question-and-answer group on screening for breast cancer, based on the recommendations of the current U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
American Family Physician February 1, 2001 Thomas J. Gates	Screening for Cancer: Evaluating the Evidence This article reviews the kind of evidence required to justify screening tests for cancer, with the goal of guiding family physicians through current and future screening controversies...
American Family Physician March 15, 2001	Cancer Screening Guidelines Faced with the broad, and sometimes conflicting, range of recommendations for cancer screening, family physicians must determine the most reasonable and up-to-date method of screening...
American Family Physician November 15, 2000	Letters to the Editor Further Discussion on the Role of Pap Smear Screening
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 May 2004	Physician Pay Remains Flat, But Bonuses Rise The increased use of bonuses represents the physician market getting more competitive.
Managed Care December 2005 Ricardo Guggenheim	Putting EBM To Work (Easier Said Than Done) Through widespread implementation of evidence-based medicine, the United States has its best chance of erasing the variations in care that currently extract such huge costs -- both human and financial -- from the health care system.
Managed Care January 2006	Compensation Monitor A recent poll reveals that doctors distrust pay for performance programs.
Managed Care May 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Will Pay for Performance Programs Introduce a New Set of Problems? Paying incentives to physicians to practice evidence-based medicine appears to be an idea whose time has come. Such programs -- even if successful -- may create a new set of problems.
Fast Company July 1, 2007	Going on the Gold Standard What it takes for your company to join the cancer fight.
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 March 2006	Compensation Monitor Higher salaries go to clinical executives who hold business degrees.
Managed Care March 2008	CMS Hybrid Payment System Shows Promise Combining Medicare fee-for-service payments with new incentive programs could help physician groups save money for Medicare and reach quality-of-care targets.
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Catherine Arnst	Breast-Cancer Screening: How to Choose Women have varying risk factors for breast cancer and face more test options. Here are some key considerations for making a suitable choice.
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.
AskMen.com	Good Health Care News New advice from the American Cancer Society puts a sharper focus on the risks of prostate cancer screening, emphasizing that annual testing can lead to unnecessary biopsies and treatments that do more harm than good.
American Family Physician September 1, 2001 Jim Nuovo	New Tests for Cervical Cancer Screening Recently, a number of new technologies have been developed to improve the detection of cervical cancer and its precursors. However, there is substantial controversy about whether the new tests offer meaningful advantages over the conventional Pap smear...
American Family Physician August 1, 2000 Lecia M. Apantaku	Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Screening Statistics on breast cancer risk, symptoms and recommended tests.
Managed Care October 2007	Data on Quality Lacking for Docs A new report says that insurers are better at providing quality information about hospitals than about physicians.
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 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 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 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 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 October 2005	P4P Programs Used To Get Docs Online For both doctors and patients, health information is crucial -- that's what many pay-for-performance programs hopes to promote.
Health October 10, 2008	Cervical Cancer FAQ Signs, symptoms, prevention, and treatments are some of the topics explained here.
Managed Care March 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Managing Cancer Treatment Begins Before Diagnosis Health plans are increasingly involved in promoting the lifestyle changes that help their members avoid cancer, and are increasingly involved in clinical trials if prevention fails.
Managed Care April 2006 Tony Berberabe	Insurers Rely on Providers To Screen for Depression With access only to claims data, health plans strive to promote the importance of depression screening to their providers.
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 December 2006	Headlines On Deadline ... Medicare officials plan to launch a pay-for-performance demonstration project next year for solo and small physician practices... A quarter of Fortune 1000 companies are expected to have on-site clinics by the end of 2007... etc.
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...
Nurse Practitioner December 2008 Darlene P. Peters	Colon Cancer Screening: Recommendations and Barriers to Patient Participation Advanced practice nurses and nurse researchers can play a vital role in improving colon cancer screening among patients.