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Vol. 13, No. 2
February 2004
Devices Everywhere, Some Pretty Pricey
If health plans covered all the new technology that's being launched at so furious a rate, they'd go bankrupt. How do plans decide what to cover?
Q&A: Extolling Virtues of Not-for-Profits
Howard J. Berman of the Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Health Care says that not-for-profits still provide services that no one else can or will, and that the nation needs them.
Johns Hopkins University and American Healthways collaborated on a methodology to evaluate disease management programs. Industry acceptance is spotty.
HMOs and health foundations do not work together often, and that's too bad. If what's going on in California is any indication, health plans may be missing an opportunity.
Oral Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
Intensive glycemic control reduces microvascular and macrovascular complications associated with type 2 diabetes, improves patients' outcomes, and ultimately decreases costs.
Can HMOs save Medicare?
News and Commentary
New Twist on an Old Effort: Paying People To Live Right
Access Equal In For-Profits, Not-For-Profits?
Per capita health care spending growth slows [chart]
Headlines On Deadline...
Meet new Medicare risk adjustments.
Cost shifting pays off for employers.
Primary care salaries hold steady.
New treatments for alpha1-antitrypsin.
Employer interest in CDHPs weighed.
Better times for health insurers.