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This Week's Health Business News
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Prescription Solutions Develops Model for Boosting Drug Safety
and Lowering Costs for Elderly Patients
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Disruptive Physicians Heighten Hospital Risks at a Time When Collaboration
Is Key to Effective Compliance
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Blues Plans Expand Hospital Pay-for-Performance Programs Into
New States, Smaller Hospitals
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First-Quarter 2008 Was Worst Stock Performance for Public Health
Plans Since Late-1997
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Incentives for Patients to Switch From Prescription to Over-the-Counter
Drugs Can Produce Large Savings for Members and Plans Alike
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News from Washington and the States
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Health Plans, PBMs Consider New Ways to Boost the Health Literacy
of Their Members
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Maine Hospital Settles Medicare Billing Allegations for $1.15
Million
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Appeals Court Rules Against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
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Health
Plans Applaud Passage of Genetic Antidiscrimination Bill
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Appeals Court Rules Against Treating Indigent Patients as ‘Ping-Pong
Balls’
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Health Plan Business
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More Health Plans Adopt 'Never-Event' Policies That Don't Reimburse
for Treatment Needed to Correct Medical Errors |
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Medicare Advantage
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CMS Could Soon Issue Guidelines or Regulations to Control Medicare
Advantage Marketing |
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Colo. Access Joins State, CHCS In New Medicaid Pilot Program
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans
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To Appease Regulators and Providers, Calif. Blue Cross Says It Will
No Longer Ask Doctors to Review Individual Applications |
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PBMs, Health Plans Are Working with States to Stem the Alarming
Increase in Abuse of Prescription Drugs |
| Specialty Pharmacy |
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New Single-Specialty Company Targets Efficiencies Through Integrated
Approach to Oncology Management |
| Consumer-Directed Health Care Plans |
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Health Plans Are Developing Powerful New Web-Based Personal Health
Records to Allow Consumers to Manage Their Health |
| Medicare Compliance |
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Enforcement Agencies May Soon Look at Hospitals for Improper Financial
Relationships With Device Manufacturers |
| HIPAA Compliance |
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California Expands Its Data Breach Notification Law to Include Medical
Information and Insurance Data; Other States Likely to Follow |
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