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M Wilcox

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Should non-patient volunteers donate eggs?

Egg donation is associated with medical and surgical risks regardless of the source of eggs, be it through commercial, altruistic or more recent egg-share donors. Egg sharing is the only system that does not turn a healthy woman (the donor) into a patient. Using carefully selected egg-share donors, pregnancy rates for both donor and recipient are as good as any egg-donation programme, with one cohort of eggs being used with more efficiency. We propose that anonymous egg sharing, as licensed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), minimizes risk, is ethically sound and should be considered as the only acceptable form of anonymous egg donation.

Altruism↗
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Outcomes measurement and management with a large Medicaid population: a public/private collaboration.

Recipients, consumer advocates and purchasers expect managed care companies, in partnership with their provider networks, to measure and to continuously improve quality of care. This task is especially challenging when the beneficiaries of that care are covered by a publicly funded program. Yet this will be an increasingly common occurrence as more states contract with managed care companies for the care management of their Medicaid populations. In this article, the authors describe the outcomes measurement and management program of the first statewide managed Medicaid behavioral health carve-out program. Much of the foundation of that program has been built through collaborative efforts between the Massachusetts Division of Medical Assistance as purchaser, MHMA as managed care vendor, recipients, providers and other stakeholders. The authors report on the FMH/MHMA experience and what they learned. The principles derived from this outcomes program may be helpful to other states and to managed care companies undertaking similar public/private partnerships.

Consumer Behavior↗