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Prevent Crime From Paying: Fight Managed Care Fraud
Despite popular belief, managed care is not fraud-proof. Every $1 that health plans spend to set up special investigation units could result in $7 recovered.
Frank Diamond
Tracking Disparities in Care
Having employer-sponsored benefits does not guarantee good service. Differences in race, education, and income are also factors.
MargaretAnn Cross
Quality Improvement: It’s Not the Road You Take – It’s Getting There That Counts
Leading-edge health plans and medical delivery systems are shelving their diverse interests in search of common methods of betterment.
Bob Carlson
Hospitalists Make It Look Easy
These physicians have been on the job for several years, and evidence is mounting that they are one of the HMO industry’s real success stories.
Marlene Piturro
Is 34 Weeks an Acceptable Goal For a Complicated Singleton Pregnancy?
Departments
EDITOR’S MEMO
Has the Time Come for NCQA To Get Tough With HMOs?
LEGISLATION & REGULATION
National Mental Health Parity Bill Poised To Pass This Time Around
COMPENSATION MONITOR
For locum tenens physicians, money’s not everything – but it’s not bad
THE FORMULARY FILES
HMO drug formulary access increases for COX-2s
SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE
Decision Support Made Practical
LEGAL FORUM
How To – And Not To – Disclose Medical Errors to Patients
MANAGED CARE OUTLOOK
Survey: ’90s boom didn’t increase number of covered employees
News & Commentary
Though M+C Erosion Slows, Reimbursement Still an Issue
Headlines On Deadline…
NCQA Report Not Just About HEDIS Any More, Doctor
Health Plan Refines Effort To Tier Hospitals
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.