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Managed Care April 2005 |
Medicare Modernization Act to Increase Public Sector Spending Nearly 50 Percent While the burden on the public sector to supply health care benefits to Medicare and Medicaid enrollees will increase, on the private side, a reevaluation of current forms of health insurance coverage may take place as growth in premiums continues to outpace growth in compensation. |
Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey |
Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2010 Tim Steffen |
Taking Your (tax) Medicine High-net-worth individuals need to plan today for significant healthcare tax changes ahead. |
Managed Care November 2005 John A. Marcille |
Florida's Medicaid Waiver Will Be Scrutinized Closely Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt approved a Medicaid waiver application that will shift 210,000 beneficiaries in Broward and Duval counties into managed care beginning in July 2006. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2008 Jill Wechsler |
Challenge and Challenges Expanded healthcare coverage also fits the goals of pharma manufacturers. |
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 Howard Gleckman |
Radical Surgery For Medicaid? South Carolina Governor Sanford has a plan to slash costs - but a political battle looms. |
Managed Care July 2002 |
Memo Clarifies CMS Guidelines on Injectables Injectable drugs should be covered by Medicare if beneficiaries administer them less than 50 percent of the time, according to a clarification on this issue by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services that's set to take effect Aug. 1. |
Managed Care December 2006 |
Medicaid Plans Too Successful For Own Good? The Wall Street Journal reports that Medicaid costs appear to be stabilizing, but health plans are raking in huge profits. |
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 February 2005 |
Medicare's Drug Coverage Seeks To Strike Compromise Health plan officials are still trying to determine just how the final rules for the new Medicare prescription drug benefit will affect them, because it appears that government officials tried their best to address the competing concerns of all players. |
BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 John Carey |
Drug Prices: A New Covenant? The states' growing negotiating clout with Big Pharma raises crucial questions |
Investment Advisor July 2009 Melanie Waddell |
The Great Health Reform Debate President Barack Obama has set an ambitious deadline of October to achieve comprehensive healthcare reform. |
Managed Care April 2005 John Carroll |
Can Managed Care Programs Rein in Medicaid's Runaway Budgets? Cadillac or Yugo care for the poor? Fee-for-service or managed care? The states have a lot on their minds as the Medicaid monster grows and grows. |
Managed Care April 2005 John A. Marcille |
What's Your Big Issue?: 10 to 1, It's Not Your Neighbor's Big issues in managed care? Depends on where you are standing, does it not? |
Managed Care July 2002 |
CBO Weighs Effect of Growing Deficit on Fed Programs Health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid figure to suffer, thanks to a growing federal budget deficit, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2005 Patrick Clinton |
Playing Doctor Why Congress plans to ban erectile dysfunction drugs from Medicare and Medicaid, and why they shouldn't do it. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Medicare Drug Benefit 101 If financial advisers can understand the basics of the new Medicare drug benefit plan, they can provide a great service to their clients -- perhaps even save them money in premiums. Here's where to start. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2006 Marie F. Smith |
AARP's Blueprint Americans can -- and should -- pull together to create a secure future for its citizens. To suggest that an older America will precipitate a crisis overstates the problem and fails to consider some major mitigating factors. |
Managed Care February 2006 |
Managed Care Offered to More Medicaid Enrollees A chart illustrates the percentage of medicaid enrollees in managed care, for the years 1996 to 2004. |
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? |
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Howard Gleckman |
The New Face Of Medicaid Seniors and the disabled are pushing the program to the breaking point. |