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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 July 2005 Martin Sipkoff	Support Grows for Establishing National Clinical Trial Registry Stakeholders are pushing for a national clinical trial registry, and efforts by UnitedHealth Group are in the forefront. Medical journals are setting hard and fast rules.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2012 Jill Wechsler	Who Will Pay for New Drugs? Comparative research documenting value and affordability is key to obtaining coverage for high-cost therapies.
Managed Care November 2003 Martin Sipkoff	9 Ways To Reduce Unwarranted Variation Unwarranted variation in medical practice is costly -- and deadly. When the approach in one town is major surgery and in another, it's watchful waiting, you know there's a problem.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2014 Ben Comer	Take as Directed: From Force to Finesse in Promoting Adherence Healthcare players tout patient education and engagement as the keys to better drug adherence rates. Patients agree, as long as that translates to convenient and affordable access to therapy.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2013	Roundtable on Market Access Market Access is a window on what matters in the real world of soaring patient expectations and crimped payer budgets for innovation.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2014 William Looney	The Call to Community: A Conversation with Dr. David Nash Population health is the foundation for much of what is truly new in US health reform. For big Pharma, it represents yet another escalation in expectations.
Managed Care December 2003 Martin Sipkoff	Health Plans Begin To Address Chronic Care Management As with so much else in health care, observing protocols, analyzing data, and rethinking benefit designs are important.
BusinessWeek May 29, 2006 John Carey	Medical Guesswork From heart surgery to prostate care, the health industry knows little about which common treatments really work.
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.
Managed Care May 2004 Thomas G. Dolan	Pharmacist Care An Idea Whose Time Is Still Coming For more than a decade, it has seemed this idea would catch fire. But many insurers are still looking for evidence that it can reduce overall costs.
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2013 William Looney	In Cancer, Process Drives Progress Today's most important public health story is the advance in our understanding of the biology of cancer.
BusinessWeek June 9, 2009 John Carey	Giving Patients the Data They Need A growing effort by doctors, insurers, and politicians helps people make better-informed medical decisions
Managed Care June 2002	'We Changed The Way Kaiser Makes Decisions, Views Itself' Lawrence's tenure as Kaiser CEO came at a tumultuous time for the country's largest classic HMO. An interview with David M. Lawrence.
Managed Care March 2005 Frank Diamond	Kaiser's Asthma Outcomes Will Take Your Breath Away The company's Mid-Atlantic States Region has seen impressive savings since launching a disease management program for asthma.
American Family Physician October 15, 2003 Gavin et al.	Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes By increasing patient awareness of the link between diabetes and heart disease, family physicians can encourage patients to take medications (including aspirin), stop smoking, lower blood pressure, and lower cholesterol and blood glucose levels.
Managed Care January 2007 Maureen Glabman	Will 'Mea Culpa' Work for Health Plans Too? Hospitals and physicians, to varying degrees, are finding that doing the right thing is good business practice.
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 January 2001 Richard B. Dwore	Study An Opportunity for HMOs To Use Marketing To Increase Enrollee Satisfaction...
Managed Care June 2002 Frank Diamond	A Look at Kaiser CEO's Legacy: Faith in Quality Never Waned David M. Lawrence, MD, MPH, guided the country's largest not-for-profit health plan through the tumultuous managed care decade.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2012 Sue Barrowcliffe	Real World Insights Commercial teams as well as patients can benefit from managed access programs, which are designed to provide access to medicines outside of the clinical and commercial setting, for patients who have no other available treatment options.
Managed Care April 2004 John Carroll	$50M for Drug Comparisons Could Produce Valuable Results The Medicare amendment adopted late last year contains a provision that could help P&T committees, not to mention consumers, evaluate competing drugs.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2012 Debbie Warner	Adapting to a New Era of Cancer Care Coverage and treatment decisions will be driven by value and defined differently by each stakeholder.
Managed Care June 2002 Frank Diamond	Meet George C. Halvorson When it selected the person who would become only the fourth CEO in Kaiser Permanente's history, it may have seemed that the health plan reached beyond its own culture.
Scientific American April 2005 JR Minkel	Leafy Letdown Recent studies indicate that eating vegetables seems to do little in warding off cancer. Breast cancer is included in this finding.
Scientific American March 2009 Elaine Schattner	A Chip against Cancer: Microfluidics Scrutinizes T Cells With just a blood sample, a device could determine whether cancer is about to spread or monitor the progress of treatment
Managed Care October 2002 Bob Carlson	It's Not the Road You Take -- It's Getting There That Counts Leading-edge health plans and medical delivery systems are shelving their diverse interests in search of common methods of betterment.
Managed Care January 2002 Frank Diamond	Making the Case for a 'Health Care Fed' A U.S. government agency, some argue, should be created to rule on usefulness of medications, equipment, and procedures. Britain has just instituted such a system...
Managed Care October 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Some HMOs See Dividends In Charging Deductibles This may be one way to regain profitability, though getting permission from government regulators may take some doing.
Managed Care June 2003 Frank Diamond	How To Manage the Worried Well They have symptoms, but that doesn't mean primary care physicians can pinpoint a physical problem. Yet they do suffer, and are a cost center for insurers and employers.
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 November 1999 Peter I. Juhn, M.D.	An Evidence-Based Approach To Care Depends on All Parties -- Physicians Included ...transforming the delivery of care into a systematic approach that is based on the best medical evidence -- is dependent on more than just laying out the rules...
Managed Care April 2007 Daniel Y. Patterson	HMO - 21st Century Model The history of HMOs has been one of conflict between plans and physicians. Could global specialty capitation be a better way?
Managed Care June 2001 Frank Diamond	HMO/Physician Strain Creates Invisible Costs Perhaps goodwill is too much to ask for. However, peaceful coexistence can certainly help all players reach their mutual goal -- a smooth relationship that helps to get the job done...
Managed Care August 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Soaring Price of Cancer Drugs Leads Plans To New Approaches Insurers are trying different methods, from pay for performance to promoting preventive care, to hold down cost of chemotherapy drugs.
Managed Care April 2000	Financial Stability Of HMOs Called A Mixed Bag An HCIA-Sachs survey says the median HMO profit margin in 1998 was -1.7 percent, slightly better than in 1997. Forty-one percent of HMOs made money in 1998....
InternetNews January 15, 2010	Hard Drive Theft Nets Health Data of Thousands Breach of protocol leads to the potential loss of Kaiser Permanente patient data in California.
Managed Care January 2004 Bob Carlson	Reinsurers Offer Services To Keep Client Costs Down Coverage may now come with built-in access to a level of case management that some HMOs find useful.
Managed Care September 2000 Frank Diamond	'New' Aetna and Kaiser Face Future The biggest for-profit and not-for-profit MCOs have been through rough times recently. How have their corporate cultures changed?
Managed Care January 2001 David Ricks & Joe Suminski	Nowhere To Go but Out? Tracking Medicare+Choice Managed Medicare's trouble may have something to do with underfunding or rich benefits, but for health plans, market share has a lot to do with it, too...
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Managed Care July 2007	Headlines On Deadline... Paying hospitals extra money does not appear to improve the way they treat heart attack patients... In the coming months, patients at Mount Sinai Medical Center and nine other New York City hospitals will receive... etc.
Salon.com July 4, 2001 Alicia Montgomery	Could just anyone get a pacemaker like Cheney's? Not necessarily, HMO critics say. And Bush has already promised to veto a bill that would help patients get care as good as the vice president's...
Managed Care August 2007	E-mailing Doctors Desirable for Those with Comorbidities Patients who have multiple comorbidities and who take multiple medications may benefit most from a secure e-mail messaging system, according to a study.
Managed Care November 2001 Marlene Piturro	Frustrated With Managed Care 'Lite,' Radicals See Virtue of Competition As employers try to get workers to pay more and shoulder more risk, there's another way to control cost -- one that promotes quality as well...
Managed Care April 2002 Frank Diamond	Medicare+Choice: Uncertain Future for Unstable Program While policy makers haggle over President Bush's budget request for the system, an ominous question looms: Can money solve all the problems?
Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 John Otrompke	Recruiting in the Workplace With hundreds of new therapeutic agents in the pipeline, it is no wonder that clinical trials sponsors are looking to organize trials around the workplace.
Fast Company May 2010 Elizabeth Svoboda	Designing the Perfect Health Care Clinic At Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Center, Hollywood-style sets help planners create a patient-friendly blueprint for the future of health care.