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June 2009 FeaturesCover Story Employers Move Into Primary Care Can a Medical ‘Facebook’ Help Your Plan Thrive? Alzheimer’s Drug Pipeline Is Robust, And Usage Is Quickly Expanding Liability Concern Balances Medical Tourism’s Cost Appeal Peer-Reviewed Evaluating the Tools Used to Assess the Medical Home DepartmentsEditor’s MemoWith Workplace Clinics, What’s Old Is New Legislation & Regulation 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. Snapshot Administrative tasks related to managed care cost physician practices $31 billion per year Compensation Monitor Perhaps health plans should collaborate on P4P Formulary Files Retail and mail copayments on the rise Tomorrow’s Medicine Knee Replacement Procedure Means Less Stress, Bone Loss Unicompartmental joint operation doesn’t require storing various joint fittings to accommodate each patient's anatomy Plan Watch 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/ Managed Care Outlook Six therapeutic categories account for most drug costs NewsPatient Hospital Transitions Interrupt Continuity of Care
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