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Business of Medicine archive: News briefs

March 2000 News Briefs

  • Capitation continues to grow
  • OIG: Fees for Medicare+Choice plans need to be readjusted
  • In San Diego, a new source of help for the uninsured

November 1999 News Briefs

  • Doctors earning more, but only by working harder
  • Humana changes its plan to review high level claims
  • HMOs expect to raise premiums by 10%
  • ABIM recertification exams to be offered twice a year
  • NCQA to measure physicians
  • Wanted: student abstracts
  • Two new products from AHA help fight heart disease

July/August 1999 News Briefs

  • Working less, earning less
  • Patient dissatisfaction grows with managed care
  • Consolidation hits HMOs
  • Help sought to rebuild Nigerian hospitals
  • Minorities' health status sinking

May 1999 News Briefs

  • Fewer small businesses offering health care benefits
  • CDC to conduct hantavirus update
  • Joint Commission to create public advisory group
  • New Governors-elect
  • ACP-ASIM supports measure to help low-income seniors
  • College says new patient protection proposal falls short

April 1999 News Briefs

  • Study: Physicians are key to health plan success
  • New awards promote care of diverse groups of seniors

May 1998 News Briefs

  • FDA addresses worries about certain drug substitutions
  • As 'gatekeeping' grows, so do concerns

November 1997 News Briefs

  • Primary Care Day boasts dinners, lectures, health fairs, more
  • Uninsured rate stuck despite better job rate
  • CDC: progress on flu shots, but not for African-Americans

June 1997 News briefs

  • Presidential advisory commission meets to create patient rights bill
  • Don't forget to use new palliative care code

March 1997 News Briefs

  • Too many doctors?
  • States limiting marketing of Medicaid HMOs
  • Managed care scores low on credibility survey
  • Health care costs on the rise—but modestly

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