June 2009

Features

Cover Story

Employers Move Into Primary Care
As the number of onsite clinics at factories and office parks expands, will employers start to think they don't need managed care contracts?
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Can a Medical ‘Facebook’ Help Your Plan Thrive?
Doctors share cases, brainstorms, and gripes in today’s fast-growing electronic physician communities, and pharma companies want to be a fly on the wall. So, experts say, should you.
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Alzheimer’s Drug Pipeline Is Robust, And Usage Is Quickly Expanding
Drugs for comorbidities cost far more than the drugs for the condition itself
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Liability Concern Balances Medical Tourism’s Cost Appeal
More employers and plan managers are looking at offshore options, but few are taking the plunge
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Peer-Reviewed

Evaluating the Tools Used to Assess the Medical Home
Nine instruments were reviewed based on the extent that they measured the four attributes of primary care. Only one fully met the recommended criteria.
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Departments

With Workplace Clinics, What’s Old Is New
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The Long Road to Level 1
The switch to EDI’s 5010 data interchange standards requires full readiness — called level 1 by those in the know — in 2½ years. Let the scrambling begin.
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Administrative tasks related to managed care cost physician practices $31 billion per year
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Perhaps health plans should collaborate on P4P
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Retail and mail copayments on the rise
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Knee Replacement Procedure Means Less Stress, Bone Loss
Unicompartmental joint operation doesn’t require storing various joint fittings to accommodate each patient's anatomy
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Military’s Blog Helps Cut Through Fog of Care
Tricare saves itself unnecessary grief by reaching out to beneficiaries who need only call up http://www.health.mil/TMABlog/
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Six therapeutic categories account for most drug costs
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News

Headlines on Deadline    DIGITAL | HTML

IRS Issues New HSA Limits    DIGITAL | HTML

Market Turmoil Takes Toll    DIGITAL | HTML

Medicare spending projections over the next decade    DIGITAL | HTML

Patient Hospital Transitions Interrupt Continuity of Care    DIGITAL | HTML

Searching World for Effective Care    DIGITAL | HTML