August 2010
Cover Story
PCMH projects around the country have begun to demonstrate that the new strategy can reduce costs and improve the quality of care that people receive
Payers should benefit as the rate of introduction of blockbuster products declines
The overall effect on human health could be extensive and costly for payers, experts warn
Forget about sending members to Thailand for major surgery; there’s a center of excellence here that can do the job at a good price
Tapped by President Obama in a recess appointment, Donald Berwick, MD, will lead the CMS at least till the end of next year. Here, selections from our Berwick file.
Q&A
A medical ethicist says it’s time to acknowledge that limited resources will cover limited services
Peer-Reviewed
Legislation & Regulation
Plans try to figure out how to deal with federal guidelines on services that take effect next month
Compensation Monitor
The Formulary Files
Tomorrow’s Medicine
The search for an acceptable oral MS drug may be over if fingolimod (Gilenia) survives an FDA review this fall
Plan Watch
Network Health Alliance uses a team approach to bring primary care to an often hard-to-reach — and very costly — population
Managed Care Outlook
Follow us
Today's popular content
- How Doctors Are Paid Now, And Why It Has to Change
- Through the Looking Glass
- Occupy the OR
- What the Primary Care Physician Shortage Means for Health Plans
- Specialty Pharmacy Management Will Become More Intense
- Large employers agree on rewarding healthy behavior
- It's To Plans' Benefit To Spell Out Authority
- Health Plans Can Learn From VHA Turnaround
- Insurers skeptical of usefulness of companion diagnostics
- Transparency Called Key To Uniting Cost Control, Quality Improvement
Recent blog posts
- Health Care Industry’s Moment of Truth Is Approaching
- 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
