| American Medical News 1996 Sharon McIlrath |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| AMA leaders renew push for Medicare overhaul plan. (American Medical Association) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Blues plan starts initiative on children's cancer treatment. (Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Bundling Medicare localities: HCFA consolidation plan could hike pay for rural doctors. (Health Care Financing Administration) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Can Medicare HMOs cope with end-stage renal disease? (health maintenance organizations) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Care varies by region. (Medicare; study by Dr. John Wennberg) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Clinton budget includes single doctor update. (President Bill Clinton; 1997 budget proposal) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Clinton hopes to kill anti-fraud provisions AMA backed.(Bill Clinton to repeal provisions of health insurance bill supported by American Medical Association) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| DRGs for doctor pay: HCFA proposes bundling hospital, physician services. (diagnosis-related groups for Medicare payments, US Health Care Financing Administration) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Educators face likely financial cuts but want to call own shots. (graduate medical training) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| GAO report slams 'information gap' in Medicare HMOs. (General Accounting Office; Health Maintenance Organizations) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| GOP eases up on Medicare. (Republican congressmembers change Medicare plan) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Health insurance reform faces an uncertain road. | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Inching toward budget deal? (healthcare aspects of 1996 fiscal budget impasse) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Insurance reform cracks logjam: breakthrough clouded by continued disputes.(health insurance reform legislation) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Judge, patients urge changes to Medicare HMO appeals.(Arizona ruling on Health Maintenance Organization appeals) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Leave job, keep insurance. (US Congress passes incremental health reform bill) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Legislation is bogged down on provider-sponsored organizations.(includes comparison of PSO bills) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Less pay from Medicare? New reports on volume targets, fee updates hint at lower reimbursements. | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Low response kills survey. (Health Care Financing Administration survey of physicians' costs) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Make insurance individually owned: AMA promotes incentives to let workers buy coverage. (American Medical Association) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Medicare HMO pilot programs face practical, political hurdles. (payments to health maintenance organizations) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Medicare reviews values. (physician pay)(includes information about commenting on payment modifications) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Medicare's shaky future. | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Medicare to test new managed care models in urban, rural sites.(includes related article on participants in the Choices pilot program) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Medigap or managed care? (insurance policies that cover Medicare co-payments, deductibles) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| MSA debate slows insurance reform. (medical savings accounts) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| New restrictions on HMOs? Congress looking at gag rules, 'drive through' mastectomies. (health maintenance organizations) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Partisan split on MSAs could derail health insurance bill. (medical savings accounts) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Proposals hazy on changes in Medicare GME funding.(graduate medical edcucation) | Health | Mike Mitka, Sharon McIlrath |
| PSOs fight for unique status, lower financial standards. (provider-sponsored organizations) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Putting the brakes on physician supply. | Health | Mike Mitka, Sharon McIlrath |
| RBRVS pay change delay: specialties at odds over practice costs.(resource-based relative value scale for physician payments from Medicare) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Senate bill boosts mental health coverage. | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Senate OKs insurance bill. (health insurance legislation sponsored by Senators Nancy Landon Kassebaum and Edward M. Kennedy) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Standards for emergency services: groups OK 'prudent layperson' rule for payment. (includes related article on Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| What are your practice costs? (planned survey of medical-practice costs) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
| Where they stand: health issues take a supporting - but possibly pivotal - role. (1996 presidential elections)(Election '96) | Health | Sharon McIlrath, Diane M. Gianelli, Christina Kent |
| Who will regulate provider-run plans? (provider-sponsored organizations) | Health | Sharon McIlrath |
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