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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...
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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.
Managed Care September 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumer-Directed Health Care: Too Good To Be True? People talk about it as the sure way to control costs and give consumers the choice they seem to want. Are we being realistic?
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Foundation News & Commentary Jul/Aug 2005 Neen Hunt	Funding Ethics Scholarship Advances in science and research are producing ethical and legal issues, as well as opportunities for philanthropy to help address them.
Managed Care February 2002 Mick L. Diede & Richard Liliedahl	Getting on the Right Track Converging forces are an economic train wreck waiting to happen. Avoiding a disaster requires an understanding of the interconnection of health care's stakeholders and the global consequences of their actions...
Managed Care March 2006 MargaretAnn Cross	Deciding Factor: How Much Health Care is Discretionary? Defining discretionary health care is no easy task, but it may be imperative for 'consumer' health plans seeking to get patients more involved.
AFP eWire April 7, 2014 Pena & Eustace	Ethics Is Not A Game Of Jeopardy At the recent AFP International Conference in San Antonio, we turned ethical issues into a fun, and noisy game of Jeopardy and we had a full house.
Entrepreneur October 2002 Chris Sandlund	Trust Is a Must In the eyes of employees, investors, clients and the public at large, honesty is the only policy that will do.
Managed Care October 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Just How Will CDHC Change Your Job? Medical directors are charged with many of the tasks that could help members make the most of consumer-directed health plans.
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Insurance & Technology September 16, 2005 Katherine Burger	Educating Consumers A truly technology-enabled offering, the idea behind consumer-directed healthcare is that everyone benefits when consumers have more information.
American Family Physician August 15, 2004 Lang & Quill	Making Decisions with Families at the End of Life Because advance directives are not yet the norm, end-of-life decisions for patients without medical decision-making capacity are made regularly within discussions between the patient's physician and family.
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 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 2006 Maureen Glabman	Genetic Testing: Major Opportunity, Major Problems Whether a person is likely to develop diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia, or stroke will be reasonably well predicted, and tests can also determine whether a patient will respond to a given therapy. That's the good part.
American Family Physician March 15, 2002 Frank A. Chervenak	A Group Practice Disagrees About Offering Contraception This case concerns the justification of moral constraints that a physician group decides to apply to itself in the provision of patient services. Family physicians confront this issue with regard to reproductive medical services as well as other practices...
National Defense November 2004 Joe Reeder	Association Unveils New Ethics Code for Industry The National Defense Industrial Association's Ethics Committee has developed a benchmark statement of industry ethics for companies to incorporate into their day-to-day business.
Managed Care August 2006 Frank Diamond	Return to Jackson Hole? The Push for a Standard Benefit A nationwide discussion about making health care available to all Americans gives new life to an old idea.
Managed Care July 2006 Michael S. Victoroff	Guide to Critical Care Ethics Not Ready for Prime Time A potential useful volume on ethics in critical care falls short of expectations, often skimming the surface of important debates.
Salon.com September 28, 2000 Arthur Allen	Bioethics comes of age A lawsuit blaming the nation's most prominent bioethicist for the death of an 18-year-old prompts a reexamination of the field...
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.
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
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 February 2006 Lola Butcher	Consumer-Directed Health Pains Two studies suggest that consumer-directed health care may not be a long-term method for controlling health care costs.
Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation.
Managed Care April 2000 Michael S. Victoroff, M.D.	Helping Marginally Covered May Take Public-Private Effort Opening medicine's doors to a broader population has invoked the law of unintended consequences. Primary care physicians feel an increased demand for visits, referrals, and advice. ...
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Entrepreneur December 2005 Nichole L. Torres	Ethically Speaking What are today's students learning about business ethics?
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Managed Care November 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
Managed Care January 2007 John Carroll	Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Care: Bad for Everyone More companies are offering less coverage - or none at all. Even those that offer coverage find that more of their workers choose not to sign up.
National Defense March 2011	Statement of Defense Industry Ethics In November 2004, after several months of in-depth review the National Defense Industrial Association finalized and published its Code of Ethics. Five years later in 2009, NDIA undertook to review, and, in a small number of ways made minor but we believe worthy revisions.
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Managed Care July 2005 Thomas Morrow	Can CDHPs Resolve Issues Raised by Age of Biologics? While the potential of consumer-directed health plans is promising, this design still leaves many questions about coverage unanswered.
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