The players have changed, but is the game the same?
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Forecasting↗
Biomedical subjects
K Hallam
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Don't bank on it. GAO report finds doc databank information often outdated, inaccurate or incomplete.
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Data Collection↗
Internet firm exits managed-care plan.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans↗
Quacking to the end. Lame-duck administration to issue flurry of final rules on a range of healthcare laws.
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.↗
Compromise key to healthcare issues. Bipartisan support needed to pass Medicare prescription drug benefit, HMO reform, BBA relief.
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Aged↗
Medical errors redux. Industry braces for second Institute of Medicine report seen as 'equally radical' to first.
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Evaluation Studies as Topic↗
HCA redoubles effort to lower Va. taxes.
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Hospitals, Proprietary↗
Intermountain seeks to regain tax status.
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Health Maintenance Organizations↗
Lobbyists in black. AHA criticized for failure to back medical-errors bill.
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American Hospital Association↗
Relief bill favors HMOs over hospitals.
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Economics, Hospital↗
Groups pull plug on standards unit.
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Accreditation↗
Physicians caught in the Web. Thanks to Internet, doc disciplinary data now just a mouse click away.
The states are busy making more information available to the public about disciplinary actions taken against doctors. Streamlining the process is the Internet. Most states now post data on Web sites detailing actions taken against docs for unethical, questionable or criminal conduct. The next target for those seeking more information on their healthcare providers: the National Practitioner Data Bank. One lawmaker promises legislation that would open it to the public.
Community Participation↗
Next target: National Practitioner Data Bank.
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Community Participation↗
Joining the throng. American Medical Group Association adds name to those seeking more Medicare money.
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Budgets↗
Healthcare front and center. Democrats say managed care, drug benefit and uninsured will be key to November success.
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Health Policy↗
The man who would be chairman. Iowa's Sen. Grassley is next in line to head another powerful healthcare panel.
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American Hospital Association↗
Hospitals to HCFA: postpone PPS again.
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.↗
House OKs doc bargaining.
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Collective Bargaining↗