September 2005
The savings to consumers and employers are apparent, but are health plans left holding the bag in mail-order pharmacy?
Q&A
The godfather of disease management talks about how the industry went wrong, and is now going right, in describing its own value
Insurers worry that these facilities will ultimately increase costs at nearby community hospitals
Biotech drugs are a quickly growing component of health plan budgets. Here are the latest management techniques.
WellPoint Chairman Leonard Schaeffer and other health plan leaders believe they can help with a chronic societal issue
TOMORROW'S MEDICINE
Increasingly, treatments are being developed that combine the use of devices and medication.
Compensation Monitor
Editor’s Memo
The Formulary Files
Managed Care Outlook
Legislation & Regulation
Though there are challenges to serving the elderly, movers and shakers say that they should be able to cut costs in pilot populations by 5 percent.
Viewpoint
Impossible-to-enforce mandates won't work. Pharmacy directors and others must pose the right questions to the right people.
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