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Managed Care April 2000 Mark Abernathy	Avoid Common Problems In Risk-Sharing Contracts These arrangements too often become a hindrance instead of a help. Simple precautions today can help prevent major headaches later on.
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...
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Managed Care September 2001 Bob Carlson	Plan-Provider Posturing Draws State Regulators' Ire Network instability is what happens when providers and health plans part company, or threaten to. Lately, many ugly rifts have been the result of contract disputes, invariably conducted in public...
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Managed Care August 2001 John Carroll	Info on Questionable Physicians Languishes in National Data Bank A clearinghouse was created that stores details about malpractice suits and disciplinary actions. So how come HMOs don't use it?
Managed Care September 1999 Ed Rabinowitz	Is There a Doctor in the House? The per-visit cost of a house call is high, but used judiciously, this practice can lower overall medical costs -- not to mention provide better care.
American Family Physician November 15, 2005 Haas et al.	Management of the Difficult Patient All physicians must care for some patients who are perceived as difficult because of behavioral or emotional aspects that affect their care. Specific communication techniques and greater patient involvement in the process of care may enhance the relationship.
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 February 2006 Lola Butcher	Plans Put Provider Prices Out For Their Enrollees to Inspect Aetna, Cigna, Humana, and others are taking a variety of approaches in supplying information to members who are paying more out of pocket.
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Managed Care August 2002 Joyce Ochs	Managed Care's Use of Web Not Just for Marketing Anymore Virtually all MCOs today have Web sites as a matter of course. The challenge is to have a site useful enough to make people come back, while the operating challenge is to transfer selected company functions entirely or partially to the Internet to increase efficiency and reduce expenses.
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Managed Care July 2002 Philip H. Lebowitz	Provider Association Litigation: Better Choice for Dispute Resolution? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has validated what may be a new avenue for provider-vs.-MCO dispute resolution that is preferable to the risks of traditional individual and class-action litigation.
Managed Care July 2000	New Protections In California Not Helping Docs For all the talk of change in the state of California's ability to govern health care delivery, it appears that one group -- physicians -- is falling through the cracks.
American Family Physician October 1, 2006 Kavan et al.	A Practical Guide to Crisis Management Physicians often are required to assist patients in crisis. An estimated 4% of visits to primary care physicians involve psychiatric or social crises.
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American Family Physician January 15, 2001 Scott C. Conley	Deep Waters A physician can actually achieve significant therapeutic benefit for a patient by addressing the manifestations of an illness that no stethoscope or laboratory test can detect. Simply put, there is healing power in words.
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.
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