| American Medical News 1993 Mike Mitka |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| Budget basics: a well-drawn financial chart can keep your practice on course. | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Calif. Blue Cross to convert managed care to for-profit. | Health | Mike Mitka |
| California Blue Cross is using its market power. (organization cuts physician fees) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| HCFA chief dumps Medicare carrier. (Health Care Financing Administration; King County Medical Blue Shield) | Health | Mike Mitka, Julie Johnsson |
| Health system reform or not, physician salary caps are coming. | Health | Mike Mitka |
| HHS probe questions hospital expenses, but investigators' motives also under fire. (Health and Human Services Department) | Health | Mike Mitka, Julie Johnsson |
| HMO hand strengthened; court says exclusive HMO contracts don't violate antitrust. (health maintenance organization) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| HMOs expect to prevail under managed competition. (health maintenance organizations, managed health care competition)(includes related article on preferred provider organizations) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| HMOs oppose rules protecting doctors from risk. (health maintenance organizations; proposed rules about physician incentives in Medicaid and Medicare managed care) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| IRS targets doctors' role in integrated systems. (Internal Revenue Service) | Health | Mike Mitka, Julie Johnsson |
| Lawsuits embroil military managed competition test. (losing bidders file suit) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Making the numbers work for you: doctors can use RBRVS to manage managed care. (Resource-Based Relative Value Scale for physician reimbursement) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Managed care for Medicaid: programs in N.Y., Md. aim for better physician pay, lower costs. | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Medicare carrier efficiency ratings are down in 1992. | Health | Mike Mitka, Julie Johnsson |
| Military wants RBRVS; doctors worry it may be extended further. (resource-based relative value scale) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Primary care hit in Medicare visit work-value revision. (physicians will be reimbursed less for follow-up consultations) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Proposed Stark lab rule threatens group practices. (Rep. Pete Stark's rule defining group practices as having no fewer than five physicians for each office location) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| RBRVS: expectations meet reality in first year of payment reform. (relative value scale payment systems; Medicare) | Health | Mike Mitka, Bill Clements, Greg Borzo |
| RBRVS still creating hassles in Medicare claims processing. (resource-based relative value scale payment system) | Health | Mike Mitka, Julie Johnsson |
| Ready or not, here are outcomes 'report cards.' (outcomes research) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| State regulators consider model HMO provider contract. (health maintenance organization) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| States eye equal Medicare pay for rural, urban doctors. (Oregon, Ohio and Wisconsin may equalize physician Medicare payment rates; Minnesota, Nebraska and Oklahoma have already instituted state-wide rates) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Study questions savings of Medicaid managed care. (study by Rand Corporation) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Survey studies doctor autonomy, control in groups. (group practices; January, 1993 American Medical Association Study) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Volunteering curbs: drug industry aims to avoid price limits through self-control. | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Where does the money go? You can't make a good business decision unless you know. Cost accounting can help you find out. (physicians' offices) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| Whistle-blower: settlement in Medicare abuse suit too low. (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida pay $10 million Medicare mishandling settlement) | Health | Mike Mitka |
| You pay for what you get: management firms offer physicians capital and administrative help - at a price. (includes related article) (Vertical Integration, part 4) | Health | Mike Mitka |
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