Coingate Phase II: managed care organizations: task force takes aim at its newest target in the workers' comp investigation.
There is no end in sight for the two-year-old investigation into the investment practices of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation--probably because new mini-scandals are regularly being added to the mix. The three most recent cases to be opened up by the inspector general's office are investigations...

Johns Hopkins HealthCare Teams with Center for Health Value Innovation.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-22 October 2008-Johns Hopkins HealthCare Teams with Center for Health Value Innovation(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Johns Hopkins HealthCare (JHHC), a group providing a full spectrum of healthcare products and services, has joined The Center for Health Value Innovation, an organization dedicated to establishing...

Building research relationships with managed care organizations: issues and strategies. (Research Methods).
Managed care is now the dominant form of healthcare in the United States. The need for clinical research about the organization, delivery, and outcomes of primary care services in managed care models is high, yet access to managed care organizations as sites for clinical research may be problematic. The...

MEDecision Introduces CaseAlert(TM): Software Will Help Managed Care Organizations Identify High-Risk Patients.
Methodology Gives MCOs Highly Descriptive Analyses of Risk Factors WAYNE, Pa., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- MEDecision, Inc., a market leader in medical management software, today announced the general availability of its latest product, CaseAlert. The software system enables managed care organizations to analyze provider, facility...

Managed care organizations and the rationing problem.
By and large, neither bioethicists nor economists have offered a satisfactory account of how managed care organizations should ration health care. Both disciplines would like to guarantee adequate care to all without defining adequacy. But it cannot be done. The more we rely on market forces to distribute health...

Be tough in negotiating managed care contracts.
MIAMI -- Pediatricians typically undervalue themselves with managed care organizations but need to negotiate and fight for all the money owed them, according to Dr. Richard Lander. "Yes, you can make money today in the world of managed care," Dr. Lander said. "In the real world, we...

AMSSM and SelfCareNet Team to Develop a Self-Care, Symptom-Based Healthcare Information Content.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-8 September 2008-AMSSM and SelfCareNet Team to Develop a Self-Care, Symptom-Based Healthcare Information Content(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com SelfCareNet (SCN) is a provider of pre-visit, symptom-based, self-care health information. Christopher Madden, M.D., board-certified in family and sports medicine, authored the content. "I...

Water Street Healthcare Partners Acquires HealthPlan Holdings.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 October 2008-Water Street Healthcare Partners Acquires HealthPlan Holdings(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Water Street Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced that it has acquired HealthPlan Holdings, Inc. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, HealthPlan is...

Check Gardasil adverse-event data.
Since July 22nd, you have no doubt received phone calls from anxious parents who heard the news report about adverse events associated with the human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil. As usual, the media did a good job of creating anxiety both among parents and prescribing physicians. I've heard how much...

Trends in managed care organizations: implications for the physician executive. (Beyond Managed Care).
TODAY'S MANAGED HEALTH care industry is in turbulence. However, this tumult is creating potential opportunities for future-oriented, flexible, and innovative physician executives of health care organizations. Certainly, the catastrophic operational failures of the Oxford Health Plan provide lessons that can be applied to new initiatives. These lessons, revolving around...