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AIS's Health Business
Daily
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May
1, 2008
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"It
is our opinion that [health plans] are going to be
much bigger government contractors. Medicare, Medicaid
and state health initiatives [are] going to drive
incremental enrollment growth and earnings over the
next several years. Medicare will be a cornerstone
of that growth."
—
Tom Carroll, an equities analyst at Stifel Nicolaus
Capital Markets, told AIS's Health Plan Week.
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30%
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…of
today's health care spending is for care that is inappropriate,
Alissa Fox, VP of legislative and regulatory policy
at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, told
The AIS Report on Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans.
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New
Webcast: Learn How to Create and Manage the Modern
Healthcare Formulary, May 13th - Move beyond spreadsheets
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healthcare platform with an online formulary. Create
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People
On the Move |
Diplomat
Specialty Pharmacy hired Mike Maynard as
director of national accounts. Maynard was an integrated
delivery network/renal account manager with Roche
Pharmaceuticals.…The Cooperative Exchange,
the association for health care transaction clearinghouses,
named new officers. They are President Doug Bilbrey
of SSI Group, Inc.; Vice President Ana English
of ENS, an Ingenix (UnitedHealth Group) company;
and Treasurer Charlotte Martin of Gateway
EDI. |
Never-Event Payment Policies:
How Major Health Plans Are Getting Tough on Preventable
Hospital Errors
An Audioconference - May 13, 2008
Learn how to implement and enforce never-event payment
methods — from Aetna's chief medical director for
national accounts, medical director of Anthem Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Virginia, and The Leapfrog Group. Click
here to register today. |
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Senators
Rockefeller, Hatch and Wyden and Congressmen Stark,
Waxman and Camp to Speak at Health Reform Conference
July 10-11.
Click
here.
Implementing
'Medical Homes' To Improve Patient Care and the Bottom
Line: Steps That Health Plans and Providers Should Take
An audioconference
May 21, 2008
Register
today.
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