{"title":"How managed care could coopt the public sector.","authors":"T P Weil","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since current public officials lack the courage and political will to significantly raise payroll taxes or constrain Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits, it can be expected that long-term deficit spending will continue, effecting a predictable series of events that have strong, negative ramifications for the American health care system. The author suggests modifications to how our nation's health system should be organized and financed in order to avert these dire predictions.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 2","pages":"68-72, 75, 78 passim"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21035566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 1996 Justice Department/FTC statements on physician joint ventures and multiprovider organizations.","authors":"E R Hoffmann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 1996 Justice Department/FTC statements suggest that under some market conditions, competitors who are members of a provider organization may fix prices if the agreement on price is reasonably necessary and subordinate to potential efficiencies created by the group. The author discusses to what extent agencies' statements protect an agreement on price among competitors from being challenged under the antitrust laws.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 2","pages":"103-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21035558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HMOs irreversibly changing the role of the hospital.","authors":"T P Weil","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 2","pages":"83, 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21035567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A vendor's guide to six managed care trends.","authors":"L Scott","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Heraclitus said it 23 centuries ago: \"Nothing endures but change.\" People naturally resist change; therefore, it is important to construct a formal plan to help our people adapt and embrace change. The author provides six movements that have overtaken managed health care and some suggestions as to how the vendor can survive and thrive through these changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 2","pages":"111-2, 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21035559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disease state management: who should pay?","authors":"C M Kozma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 2","pages":"96-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21035570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health care's move toward differentiation.","authors":"R Kaminsky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the basis of competition changes, so will the focus of the health care industry's senior managers. The author believes that health plans that differentiate their product offerings, in the eyes of their customers, will be most successful.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 2","pages":"129-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21035561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Over-the-counter drugs as a new managed care benefit.","authors":"B S Scheur, R M Aaron","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nonprescription or over-the-counter (OTC) drugs represent many opportunities for physicians, insurers, manufacturers, and pharmacies to work together synergistically to provide more cost-effective care for patients. The authors review the reasons for offering an OTC drug benefit and provide two proposals on how to implement the benefit in an HMO environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 2","pages":"88-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21035569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Internet revolution: transforming health care delivery.","authors":"D Goldstein, J Flory","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 2","pages":"56-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21035563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing the rules: coverage of nonprescription drugs.","authors":"R P Navarro","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 2","pages":"84-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21035568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A breakdown of the changes in HMO premiums.","authors":"D L Cole","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80070,"journal":{"name":"Medical interface","volume":"10 1","pages":"50-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21035694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}