Vol. 7, No. 12
December 1998
Health care stakeholders will be watching when HCFA installs a risk-adjustment methodology for Medicare+Choice. Could such a system work in the private sector? Who would gain? Lose?
At least in California, HMOs are becoming superfluous, says one physician who sees them being replaced by physician-owned and -controlled medical management companies.
Health plans often contract with large regional laboratories to save money, but microbiologists and some physicians see quality eroding in several ways. Has consolidation gone too far?
Managed care goes international. Is the world just another new market, a business opportunity, for stateside HMOs -- or is this also a golden opportunity to learn from overseas experience?
Editor's Memo
News and Commentary
Health Spending Lowest in 40 Years, But HCFA
Estimates Trend Won't Last
AAHP's Analysis Of Election Day: We Told You So
Doctors Heading To the Country To Escape HMOs?
Medicare Payment Formula Triggers Specialists'
Suit
Aetna Rewrites Doctor Contracts; AMA Not
Swayed
Where health expenditures have been, and
where they are likely to go
Headlines on deadline
Washington Insight
State Initiatives
Suicide Prompts First Challenge of HMO
Liability Law in Texas
Court Allows Suits Against Pa. HMOs Over Care
Issues
Mass. Medicare Plans Will Limit Drug Benefits
New Jersey Sues Management Co., Seeks HMO's
Reins
Colorado Seeks Proof of Quality From Health
Plans
Citing Losses, Florida Closes Troubled Plan
Compensation Monitor
Ethics
Legal Forum
Managed Care Outlook