Testing the limits

Article Abstract:

Former Schering-Plough employee Ouida Sue Parker, in a suit against the company and Metropolitan Life Insurance, is challenging the practice of placing a time limit on group disability policy mental health benefits. Parker's case is unusual because it argues that such limits violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against mentally disabled employees.

Legal services, Attorneys, Offices of Lawyers, Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical preparations, Surety insurance, Income Loss Insurance, Innovations, Cases, Laws, regulations and rules, Pharmaceutical industry, Drugs, Insurance industry, Lawyers, Mental illness, Mental disorders, Schering-Plough Corp., SGP, Employment discrimination, Disability insurance, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Parker, Ouida Sue, Burson, Kaye

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Doc shopping

Article Abstract:

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts unveiled its Health Navigator interactive kiosks in May 1995. The ATM-like, multimedia kiosks provide consumers information on primary-care physicians, prescription drugs, wellness and other topics, and they are equipped with printers, which allow users to get information in writing. Four Health Navigator units are currently in use.

Usage, Health care industry, Information services, Interactive computer systems, Interactive media, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Inc.

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True values: while ethical decisionmaking and managed care aren't mutually exclusive, executive are struggling to find a common denominator

Article Abstract:

Managed care organizations form decisions more often based upon an ethical basis in the 1990s. It may be the decision of an ethics committee or a formal set of principles. Health care for the poor programs are the result of some of these ethical concerns. Managed care groups will blend business and medical ethics.

Cover Story, Ethical aspects, Managed care plans (Medical care)

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