Vol. 7, No. 5
May 1998
The managed care industry has been blamed for slowing the flow of research funding. The true story is more complex.
Disease management programs can't succeed without the full support of physicians. But how do you obtain that backing?
Two executive search consultants discuss the challenges and rewards that await physicians who become managers.
Starting in 1999, a health plan's HEDIS performance will matter at accreditation time. How will this affect plans?
The Harvard Business School professor sees big changes coming to managed care, thanks to the demands of baby boomers.
Managed care plans and physicians often become uneasy partners when they share the risk of prescription benefits.
Editor's Memo
Free Market or Mandate? (Whom Do You Trust?)
News and Commentary
Doctors: FDA Threatens Strategy To Manage
High-Risk Pregnancies
N.Y. Life's Sale To Aetna Triggers Physician
Worries
Lack of Action On Appeals Law Puzzles Texans
Nurses and Kaiser Reach Agreement; HMO Boosts
Rates
Inflation could spark higher health care
costs
HMO profit margins still dropping, but not
so quickly
Headlines On Deadline...
Compensation Monitor
Not quite the Midas touch
Washington Initiatives
Jeffords's QUEST Would Establish
National Health Quality Council
Men Overboard! They're Jumping Good Ship
PARCA
Kennedy-Dingell Strips Employers' ERISA
Immunity
Few Surprises In Medicare Rules Issued
for PSOs
Mixing and matching Medicare and Medicaid
[chart]
Take as Needed...
State Initiatives
Nine States Get Federal Funding To Improve
Children's Coverage
HMOs in N.J., North Carolina, Washington
Fined
HMO Reform Is Sidelined In Oklahoma
Mass. Report Blasts Blues' Breakup Plan
California: Where the premium dollar goes
[chart]
Employer Update
Value-Based Purchasing Pioneer Corrals Hospitals and Physicians
Ethics
Genetic Testing: Can What Patients Know Hurt Them?
Legal Forum
Stark II: Don't Underestimate The Feds' Resolve to Enforce It
Managed Care Outlook
Many consumers feel quality plays second fiddle to stock price
