MANAGED CARE January 2004. ©MediMedia USA

Vol. 13, No. 1
January 2004

HEALTH PLAN 2009

What Will Be, Will Be

Still, it doesn't hurt to look ahead to 2009, as these experts do.

Helen Darling
Huge challenges cannot be avoided.

Leonard Schaeffer
The enduring problem of rising costs.

Kenneth S. Abramowitz
Consumer-directed health care won't fly.

Joseph Newhouse
Technology's good and ill effects.

Paul Fronstin
No end in sight to medical inflation.

Alice Gosfield
Rise of nonphysician clinicians.

Newt Gingrich
Health care needs to catch up.

J.D. Kleinke
"A final underwriting death spiral."

Cooperation Gets to Heart of the Matter

When cardiac surgeons started visiting each others' hospitals, good things happened for patients. MCOs could cooperate too.

Let the Sun Shine In

Paying for good provider performance will encourage health care transparency, improving the overall health care system.

Just What Do Reinsurers Offer for Free?

For starters, case management.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Memo

Business as unusual.

Viewpoint

Don't dismiss alternative medicine.

News and Commentary

Matter of Trust: HMOs Get Little
Large Employers Now Use DM To Cut Their Costs
Study: Loosening of Managed Care Hurts the Poor
Headlines On Deadline ...

Legislation and Regulation

Medicare law presents opportunity.

Compensation Monitor

Opportunities for physician executives.

Formulary Files

Hiking copayments hurts compliance.

Ethics

Logic flies when EMRs are debated.

Tomorrow's Medicine

New drugs to fight tumors.

Outlook

Major reform not in store for 2004.