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Managed Care January 2005 |
Private Practice Physicians Find Dual Role Challenging When it comes to balancing the role of business owner and practicing physician, many private practice doctors are having a tough time of it. |
Managed Care May 2001 |
Demand's cool for primary care physicians Although they're not quite an endangered species, primary care physicians aren't exactly in high demand these days, either. That's been the experience of a national physician search and recruitment firm... |
Managed Care March 2001 |
Physician income trends vary by specialty In tracking the salaries of primary care physicians and specialists over a decade, the Medical Group Management Association has documented similarities and differences in trends based on specialty... |
Managed Care July 2002 |
Money isn't everything Physicians are fairly happy with their incomes, but unhappy with the number of hours they have to work, as well as with the ancillary duties involved in practicing medicine, according to a survey. |
Managed Care July 2005 |
Economically, country mouse does better Although lower income in rural areas is often cited as an obstacle to recruitment of physicians, one study suggests rural and urban areas do not differ significantly - at least, in terms of income. |
Managed Care May 2002 |
Radiologists, anesthesiologists in demand Radiology is the name of the game in physician recruitment today. Studies have also seen increased demand for another traditionally hospital-based specialty -- anesthesiology |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2005 Christopher Lisanti |
Physician Frustration Doctors have had enough. But reps can still redeem themselves. As the industry thinks about new sales force models, it should look beyond ROI numbers, toward a new paradigm that not only works for pharma, but also for its customers. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 David A. Twibell |
House Calls Working with physicians can be rewarding, but to be successful, advisors need to develop the skills to tackle the unique problems facing doctors. |
Fast Company April 2006 |
"MD" Doesn't Mean "Mostly Digital" How technologically backward are U.S. doctors? Here are some statistics. |
Managed Care April 2002 |
What's An E-Mail Consultation Worth? The answer depends on whom you ask. A search of news archives turns up two reported experiments with reimbursement of physicians for e-mail communication with patients... |
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 June 2006 |
Fewer Doctors Contract with Managed Care Although it was stable in the mid-1990s, the proportion of physicians without any managed care contracts rose from 9.2 percent in 2000-2001 to 11.5 percent in 2004-2005, according to a report. |
Managed Care August 2000 |
Internet revolution not yet impressing most physicians For all the potential of the Internet to erase old physician doubts about integrating information technology into everyday practice, scant few doctors have embraced it. |
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 May 1, 2005 Sibyl Shalo |
Out to Lunch? For the average pharma rep, a 13-minute sales oriented meal trumps a 60-second office visit, any day of the week. |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Paul Greenberg |
Medical Education: Real-Time CME News-based CME helps doctors stay on top of new medical information and changes in treatment -- before their patients do. |
Managed Care December 2006 |
Compensation Monitor More than half of the nation's HMOs use pay-for-performance programs. |
Managed Care October 2000 |
How you fare under capitation Warren Surveys talked to about 50 HMOs and community based health plans in 1999 to tally what they were paying physicians in capitation and risk-arrangement contracts... |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2011 Brandon Glenn |
Cardinal Health Sees Opportunity (but Faces Challenges) in Specialty Drugs Is Cardinal up for the challenge? |
Managed Care November 1999 Karen Ignagni |
Health Plans Will Use New Tools To Help Physicians Practice Better For the first time, plans are in a position to work with physicians to improve outcomes, efficiency, and patient safety.... |
Managed Care September 1999 |
New Fee Schedule For Medicare Helps Office Docs ...Office-based physicians will receive slightly higher fees, up to a 1-percent increase, while most hospital-based doctors will see fee reductions of up to 1 percent.... |
Managed Care July 2006 |
Physician Satisfaction Study Surprises A new study suggests that physicians working in areas where there is an extensive medical infrastructure are less happy with the quality of the care they provide than doctors working elsewhere. |
Managed Care February 2001 |
Denver Docs Bolt Aetna Before It Ends 'All-Products' Some 8,000 Denver-area residents were left to find new doctors when 240 physicians affiliated with MedWest Medical Group dropped Aetna U.S. Healthcare in a dispute over contract terms. The doctors did not renew their Aetna contract when it expired Jan. 31... |
Managed Care January 2006 |
Compensation Monitor A recent poll reveals that doctors distrust pay for performance programs. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2007 Jeffrey Zornitsky |
Sales Management: Get Committed By better managing relationships with physicians, pharma companies can develop a base of dedicated prescribers. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 John J. Bowen |
Rx for Affluent Physicians Here's how financial advisors can approach the wealth management challenges of one attractive niche market. |
Managed Care November 2002 |
Combating the coming physician shortage 38 percent of the nation's 740,000 physicians are 50 or older -- that's one of the reasons that health care faces a coming shortage of doctors. Martin/Fletcher estimates that 250,000 will be needed over the next 10 years to replace those lost to retirement and other reasons. |
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 April 2000 Karen L. Trespacz, J.D. |
League of Their Own: What Makes a Winning IPA? In a familiar cartoon, a professor writes long, learned equations on a blackboard. To connect the profundities on either end, he writes in the middle, "Then a miracle occurs." IPAs, done well, are the miracles that connect the ends of health care. |
Managed Care October 2004 |
Does Payment Method Drive Procedure Rates? In a study involving three large HMOs, researchers reviewed encounter and claim data for specialty services associated with different rates of performance of invasive procedures. |
AskMen.com Tara Weiss |
Reasons Not To Become A Doctor There were once many rewards to being in the medical profession. For decades, doctors earned hefty paychecks, had autonomy and respect. Those benefits are fading, and as a result, so is the number of doctors. |
Managed Care May 2000 |
Physicians Fudge Insurance Forms To Help Patients A study confirms what has long been considered common but is rarely discussed: Physicians often lie about patients' conditions to gain or improve coverage for their treatment. |
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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2005 Alana Klein |
Medical Education: Preferred Providers Many physicians favor CME programs affiliated with university or medical societies over hospital-run programs or those self-accredited by medical communications agencies. |
Managed Care April 2000 |
Cigna Colorado Ends Capitation For Most Primary Care Physicians In a strategic move aimed at retaining and recruiting top physicians, Cigna HealthCare of Colorado has dumped capitation. In late February, the insurer began paying most of its physicians in the state on a discounted fee-for-service basis.... |
Managed Care May 2007 |
Compensation Monitor Most docs break bread with pharma. |
Managed Care August 2002 |
Patients' unpaid bills come from physicians, hospitals With health care costs rising and the number of uninsured Americans close to 40 million, physicians and hospitals are feeling the pinch. |
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 July 2007 |
Managed Care Outlook The future holds too few docs. |
Managed Care May 2000 |
Texas-Aetna Incentives Settlement Worries Some Capitated Physicians If the Texas deal ignites a trend away from the use of incentives to keep utilization down, then some capitated physicians worry it will put them in a tight spot. |
Managed Care November 2005 Frank Diamond |
Physicians and Plans Can Get Along Hill Physicians Medical Group, one of the largest IPAs in the country, has learned to deliver what managed care plans want |
Managed Care June 2001 |
Physicians Urged To Tell Patients: 'Change Behavior' Some leaders in health care say measurable improvements in public health could occur if physicians would use their bully pulpit a bit more... |
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 November 2006 Arthur Lazarus |
Expert Opinions Create Liability for Physicians Physicians cannot rely on courts, drug companies, or HMOs to protect their freedom of speech. Their experience and knowledge form the foundation of all medical opinion. |
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 April 2007 |
Physicians Oppose Public Disclosure of Quality Although 3 out of 4 primary care physicians support the use of financial rewards as an incentive for better medical care, the majority would rather not make quality assessments readily available to the public, according to a recent survey. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2005 Zimmerman & Fay |
Marketing to Professionals: Dr. Ambassador The pharma industry is under siege in the news media. Smart companies must create a role for physicians as ambassadors who can raise patient confidence in drugs and the pharma industry as a whole. |
Managed Care October 2000 Maureen Glabman |
Giving Some Ground to Physicians Helped Turn Health System Around One hospital system accepted the general wisdom a few years ago by acquiring physician practices. Now it bucks the new wisdom by holding on to them... |
Managed Care July 2000 John A. Marcille |
EMR: New Idea Collides With Old Human Nature What would "Give-'Em-Hell Harry" make of electronic medical records?... |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2009 |
Why All the Bad Buzz? European docs have always been down on pharma - but now the US is catching on. Perhaps pharma has oversold the "service model." |