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Needed: A New ‘Bill of Rights’ For Mental Health Care Providers
Behavioral health care organizations, argues this administrator, are being monitored to death. He suggests that a set of ground rules be applied to avoid duplication and ensure fairness to all parties
Whatever Happened to Exclusive Contracting?
A few years ago, experts predicted that HMOs would be lining up exclusive “teams” of primary care physicians, specialists and hospitals. Today they don’t agree whether that prophecy was wrong or has simply been delayed.
The momentum in managed care has shifted to for-profit plans, but don’t count out not-for-profits, particularly these three innovative and — for many enrollees — beloved HMOs. They aren’t resting on their laurels.
An Interview with Scott Weingarten, M.D.
This noted internist and lifelong Angeleno has nothing against the art of medicine. He just wants to complement it with the most rigorous science available.
Diary of the Birth of an HMO
Even with hospital money and PPO experience behind you, getting a new HMO started is a daunting proposition. Here’s the step-by-step story of how one Louisiana health plan took the plunge.
In police lingo, ‘SWAT’ stands for Special Weapons And Tactics. It’s an apt metaphor for the team of workers a physician’s office can assign to Solve Worrisome Account Troubles.
Jeffrey J. Denning
Projecting a Leaner Managed Medicare
If Congress tightens the belt on Medicare HMOs, it could slow the march of elderly Americans into managed care, creating complications for physicians. But that march won’t be stopped.
Departments
EDITOR’S MEMO
What You’re Reading Is a Well-Oiled Machine
STATE INITIATIVES
Impact of New Texas HMO Liability Law Depends on How Congress Treats ERISA
WASHINGTON INITIATIVES
EMPLOYER UPDATE
Medstat Promises Satisfaction Reports That Are Free of Suspicion of Bias
COMPENSATION MONITOR
Family physicians prosper as managed care spreads
LEGAL FORUM
Get Help Fighting Fraud Investigation, But Don’t Shoot Yourself in the Foot
ETHICS
Anticipating Managed Care in the Year of Lindbergh
MANAGED CARE OUTLOOK
When HMOs contract with organized delivery systems
News & Commentary
Florida Warns 40% of State’s HMOs It May Force Them Into Receivership
Paul Lendner ist ein praktizierender Experte im Bereich Gesundheit, Medizin und Fitness. Er schreibt bereits seit über 5 Jahren für das Managed Care Mag. Mit seinen Artikeln, die einen einzigartigen Expertenstatus nachweisen, liefert er unseren Lesern nicht nur Mehrwert, sondern auch Hilfestellung bei ihren Problemen.