December 2000
Tools of the Trade
There are ways for low-income groups to avoid paying top dollar for prescriptions. Here's one way physicians can educate consumers.
RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES
Although they're an old form of managed care, the best continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) strive to be life maintenance organizations.
PLAN-PROVIDER CONTRACTING
State legislatures that tackle medical group insolvencies have come up with strategies that sometimes shift accountability to HMOs.
A CONVERSATION WITH BECKY J. CHERNEY
The CEO of a large Florida employer coalition insists that the information that companies are beginning to demand will force the industry to change.
Health plans concerned about the cost of pharmacy benefits might want to look at potential effects of prescription drug reimportation — formulary issues and legal questions, to name two — even if full implementation is a while off.
Compensation Monitor
EDITOR'S MEMO
Managed Care Outlook
State Initiatives
Systems & Software
Washington Watch
Follow us
Today's popular content
- Through the Looking Glass
- How Doctors Are Paid Now, And Why It Has to Change
- Occupy the OR
- Specialty Pharmacy Management Will Become More Intense
- What the Primary Care Physician Shortage Means for Health Plans
- It's To Plans' Benefit To Spell Out Authority
- Health Plans Can Learn From VHA Turnaround
- Insurers skeptical of usefulness of companion diagnostics
- Return to Jackson Hole? The Push for a Standard Benefit
- Four Ways To Avoid Being Deselected
Recent blog posts
- Through the Looking Glass
- Physician Practices Hiring Care Coordinators
- Who Will Pay for High-Cost Biologics?
- Health exchanges stumble to the starting line
- It's Elementary
- Yet Another Warning About Antibiotic Overprescribing
- Let the EMR Backlash Begin
- Not a Third World Experience
- UK: Health Care Policy Mayhem…and a Very Public Scandal
- Small Businesses Look at Health Care Changes and Say ‘Duh!’
