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December

� Wikipedia often misses important drug facts - Dec. 29
� United subsidiary launches consumer Web site - Dec. 29
� Helping students, residents find or sell a home - Dec. 29
� Model law banning silent PPOs could serve as draft for state legislatures - Dec. 29
� Brief: Spending for generic drugs drops - Dec. 29
� Brief: Retail clinics serving relatively small patient population - Dec. 29
� Brief: Rescission reform introduced in California again - Dec. 29
� Tech-savvy med students fear life without EMRs - Dec. 29
� How to handle the transition to a new office manager - Dec. 29
� Check fine print before selling your practice - Dec. 29
� Most patients rely on word of mouth when picking a new doctor - Dec. 22
� Usefulness of home monitoring devices studied - Dec. 22
� Feature: Taking it to the bank: A new strategy for health plans - Dec. 22
� Brief: Report: 47% of New Jersey hospitals posted losses in 2007 - Dec. 22
� Brief: Plea offered in snooping case - Dec. 22
� Brief: Former Coventry CEO now executive board chair - Dec. 22
� Google uses online queries to see where flu interest is peaking - Dec. 15
� Feature: Preparing for disaster: How would your practice cope? - Dec. 15
� Brief: Medicare to launch PHR pilot program - Dec. 15
� Brief: Health Net CMO returns - Dec. 15
� Economy sends physicians to hospitals for help - Dec. 15
� Make sure your patient's consent is truly informed - Dec. 15
� Doctors want further scrutiny of Horizon for-profit conversion - Dec. 8
� Feature: Go tech go: Championing new health IT - Dec. 8
� Brief: Aetna chief medical officer resigns - Dec. 8
� Brief: Indiana RHIO launches disease effort - Dec. 8
� Brief: Largest retail clinic opens - Dec. 8
� Adopting e-prescribing with an EMR is challenging - Dec. 8
� Maryland doctors warn about Blues' pay cuts - Dec. 1
� Laws bolster penalties for privacy breaches in California - Dec. 1
� Brief: FBI probes threat against pharmacy benefit manager - Dec. 1
� Brief: WellPoint enters medical tourism - Dec. 1
� Tough economic times call for vigilant business sense - Dec. 1
� What bosses want: Accuracy with health insurance claims tops the list - Dec. 1
� Best approach to retaliation suit: Don't let it happen - Dec. 1

November

� Tourniquet designed for fingers and toes - Nov. 24
� Developer offers concierge care to luxury condo buyers - Nov. 24
� Michigan medical society to launch health IT exchange - Nov. 24
� Feature: Finding the right floor: How much should insurers spend on medical care? - Nov. 24
� Brief: Microsoft user group expands - Nov. 24
� Health plans feel economic pain, brace for more - Nov. 24
� Feature: Bottom line blues (MGMA annual meeting) - Nov. 17
� Brief: Cigna expands its reach - Nov. 17
� Brief: PHRs join interoperability project - Nov. 17
� Brief: Sermo expands forums - Nov. 17
� Brief: New CEO appointed for Blues company - Nov. 17
� Pay for referrals may be illegal as well as unethical - Nov. 17
� Feature: Selling the subsidy: Questions remain on hospital-physician IT collaboration - Nov. 10
� Brief: Aetna, Microsoft collaborate on PHR portability effort - Nov. 10
� Brief: EMR user certification offered - Nov. 10
� Doctors tally the economic value practices bring to communities - Nov. 10
� Merging practices find IT may not blend well - Nov. 10
� Doctors' punch line: biopsies made easier - Nov. 3
� Pennsylvania ponders final comments on proposed insurance deal - Nov. 3
� Medical travel doesn't have to be overseas - Nov. 3
� Brief: WebMD makes deal with marketing firm - Nov. 3
� Brief: Ohio medical society wants Anthem investigation - Nov. 3
� Survive the credit crisis by keeping on top of finances - Nov. 3

October

� Guarding their treasure: Health plans try to hold on to financial reserves - Oct. 27
� Brief: Company launches PHR/social network combo - Oct. 27
� Brief: N.Y. physicians feel insurer pressure - Oct. 27
� 4 areas you can look to for lost profits - Oct. 27
� Feature: Divided by duty: While a doctor serves the country, the practice must still serve patients - Oct. 20
� Brief: Health IT grows - Oct. 20
� Brief: Cigna expands Medicare business - Oct. 20
� Brief: Fla. Medicare Advantage plan in receivership - Oct. 20
� Check filing requirements when retaining PAs, NPs - Oct. 20
� Tenn. Blues reboots physician rating program - Oct. 13
� Feature: Is your EMR legal? A document can look like a medical record, but not meet the legal definition. - Oct. 13
� Brief: First in-store clinic for Mass. - Oct. 13
� "Smart" technology moving to clinics, physician offices - Oct. 13
� Former CEO to pay United investors $30 million - Oct. 6
� Studies produce no consensus on Pennsylvania Blues merger - Oct. 6
� Survey looks at impact of health risk assessments - Oct. 6
� Brief: R.I. sees return of insurer - Oct. 6
� Brief: Health Net makes rescission deal - Oct. 6
� Your bank may need a wellness check - Oct. 6

September

� Doctor's magnetic invention raises cane - Sept. 22
� Retail clinic targets Hispanic population, cultural differences - Sept. 22
� Florida law takes on overpayment claims, assignment of benefits - Sept. 22
� Feature: Putting on the charm: Insurers try a new tack to sell themselves - Sept. 22
� Brief: Wis. health care system extends hours - Sept. 22
� Brief: Fla. Blues buys HMO - Sept. 22
� Will New Jersey Blues filing prompt for-profit rush? - Sept. 22
� Staying attuned to employee needs can lower turnover - Sept. 22
� Insurers focus earnings discussion on the future - Sept. 15
� Feature: Goodwill hunting: What's your practice worth? - Sept. 15
� Brief: NCQA will certify physician ranking programs - Sept. 15
� Separation plan needed when physician leaves practice - Sept. 15
� Surgical plates make a fashion statement - Sept. 8
� Feature: Parallel universe: Entering an online 3-D world - Sept. 8
� Brief: Surgery goes live online - Sept. 8
� Brief: Hospital chain expands - Sept. 8
� Brief: HIE accreditation coming - Sept. 8
� Brief: Internet health use up - Sept. 8
� Brief: Ex-CareFirst CEO sues over pay cut - Sept. 8
� Paper perceived safer than e-records - Sept. 8
� Before you buy, evaluate the vendor's responsiveness - Sept. 8
� Pennsylvania Blues merger could hinge on definition of market - Sept. 1
� Virtual medicine: Companies using webcams for real-time patient encounters - Sept. 1
� Brief: Hospital employees fired for snooping - Sept. 1
� Brief: Settlement with former United executive moves forward - Sept. 1
� Metal theft can disrupt physician office - Sept. 1

August

� Biggest challenges facing groups - Aug. 25
� Feature: Who's behind the card? Plans sometimes administer, rather than insure - Aug. 25
� Brief: Ohio fines United - Aug. 25
� Brief: Humana buys Tennessee health plan - Aug. 25
� Office manager is struggling; now what? - Aug. 25
� Medical schools, research groups to offer content for new online resource - Aug. 18
� Feature: Greening your practice: Cutting costs while conserving energy - Aug. 18
� Brief: Aetna introduces its own plan for "young invincibles" - Aug. 18
� Examine buy-in provisions of employment agreements - Aug. 18
� Blues plans settle rescission cases in California - Aug. 11
� Feature: Setting the pace: A case study of how the Indiana Health Information Exchange works - Aug. 11
� Brief: Vermont starts tech fund - Aug. 11
� Brief: Texas insurer pays $20 million fine - Aug. 11
� Automation seen to aid informed consent - Aug. 11
� Aetna tries paying patients to take their meds - Aug. 4
� Former CareFirst CEO's severance package cut in half - Aug. 4
� Doctor's invention sprang from patient need - Aug. 4
� Brief: Aetna reimburses overcharged students, underpaid doctors - Aug. 4
� Brief: Business group provides medical tourism guide for employers - Aug. 4
� Do you need an MBA, or are there alternatives? - Aug. 4

July

� United settles lawsuits, warns of falling profits - July 28
� Feature: Insurers are the new worried well (America's Health Insurance Plans annual meeting) - July 28
� Brief: Intel wins approval to market personal health system - July 28
� A lockbox service can protect your practice's cash - July 28
� Report details how much insurers spend on care in California - July 21
� Marshfield Clinic puts its EHR on the market - July 21
� Feature: Making the practice switch: One doctor became an employee, the other started his own office - July 21
� Brief: E-prescribers merge - July 21
� Job hunting? Cast wide net, read contract - July 21
� Privacy framework for personal health records developed - July 14
� States rapped for lax regulation of individual insurance market - July 14
� Feature: Know your EMR needs (Towards the Electronic Patient Record conference) - July 14
� Brief: GE cuts imaging workers - July 14
� Brief: HCSC buys care management firm - July 14
� Brief: S.C. finally gets prompt-pay law - July 14
� One answer to EMR data entry: Hire a scribe to do it - July 14
� For-profit hospitals find ways to cut the bad debt they carry - July 7
� PHR vendors bypass patients, pitch to business - July 7
� Aetna requires doctors to opt out of workers' compensation network - July 7
� Ministries offer bill-sharing as insurance alternative - July 7
� Brief: Safeway joins $4 generics push - July 7
� Brief: Walgreen Co. buys infusion services company - July 7
� Brief: Highmark offers tech grants - July 7
� Assess benefits in hiring management firm - July 7
� A successful sabbatical can take years of planning - July 7

June

� Feature: What's in their wallets? Health plan executives bring home the bucks - June 23
� Brief: Physician payment plan to be tested - June 23
� Brief: Survey looks at trust in Web sites - June 23
� Brief: Microsoft, Kaiser to pilot Web service - June 23
� Brief: Pa. sets July hearings on plan merger - June 23
� Patients rarely use online ratings to pick physicians - June 23
� More Americans find insurance pays for visits to retail clinics - June 16
� Aetna vows to continue settlement terms - June 16
� Feature: Revitalizing dead space: Finding an innovative place for your practice - June 16
� Brief: U.K. national network delayed - June 16
� Brief: Wisconsin plans agree to provide consumers out-of-pocket estimates - June 16
� How to put together a nurse practitioner contract - June 16
� Connecticut puts restrictions on silent PPOs - June 9
� Google enters personal health record market - June 9
� Feature: Twilight of the beeper: Today's technology offers other ways of keeping connected - June 9
� Brief: Medical debt bill vetoed - June 9
� "Vaccine against libel" could have some side effects - June 9
� 2 California insurers agree to cover members with rescinded policies - June 2
� E-prescribing campaign aims at patients to reach doctors - June 2
� Feature: Social networking etiquette: Making virtual acquaintances - June 2
� Brief: ACP writes on e-health - June 2
� Brief: Medicare plans see scrutiny in Illinois - June 2
� Some physicians charge deposits to curb no-shows - June 2

May

� Hospitals underrate malicious intent in data breaches - May 26
� Feature: Misfortune telling: Folding together data to forecast your patients' health futures - May 26
� Brief: Target follows Wal-Mart on Rx prices - May 26
� Brief: Kaiser rolls out EHR - May 26
� Ohio hospital pays patients for bills from competing facilities - May 19
� Feature: Relative risk: Keeping financial enterprise all in the family - May 19
� Brief: UCSF patient information left online - May 19
� Brief: Wal-Mart offers more drug discounts - May 19
� Brief: Aetna presses vendors to offer employee health benefits - May 19
� Brief: WellPoint buys dental company - May 19
� Brief: Brailer firm invests in e-prescribing - May 19
� Brief: Miami patient data stolen - May 19
� Health plans say they'll risk losing members to protect profit margins - May 19
� Smokers' suspensions spotlight incentive plans - May 12
� Kentucky measure calls for clearer contracts for doctors, plans - May 12
� Feature: Calculate your ideal patient load: How to strike the correct balance - May 12
� Brief: Leapfrog adds CPOE to hospital survey - May 12
� Colorado moves to regulate tiered networks - May 5
� Feature: EMR success stories: Practices that are thriving after the changeover - May 5
� Brief: EMR disease system tested - May 5
� Brief: Regence, Tenn. Blues buy IT company - May 5
� Brief: Aetna wins major corporate contract - May 5
� Use your practice contract to ease into retirement - May 5

April

� Walk-ins welcome, but only if they're healthy - April 28
� Doctor-staffed retail clinics to open - April 28
� Walgreens enters work-site clinic market - April 28
� Boomer loyalty: Insurers draw on a little help from their friends to market pre-Medicare coverage - April 28
� Brief: Maine fines insurer $1 million - April 28
� United has dropped some doctors in retainer practices - April 21
� Online feedback site adds doctor category - April 21
� Feature: Crimeproof your practice: How to improve office safety - April 21
� Brief: Small business insurance costs grow quickly - April 21
� Brief: WellPoint: No pay for "never events" - April 21
� Brief: Health network includes private PHRs - April 21
� Insurers reach accord on P4P principles; standards still to be worked out - April 21
� Simple steps can maximize efficient use of office space - April 21
� Most states working toward implementing e-health programs - April 14
� Online tool allows Minnesota patients to weigh cost, perks - April 14
� Feature: Motivating the mediocre: Getting the maximum out of someone who's giving you the minimum - April 14
� Brief: Minnesota gives EMR loans - April 14
� Ohio mandates clarity in health plan contracts - April 14
� United panned in survey of hospital execs - April 7
� Aetna launches personalized health search engine - April 7
� Feature: Selling the bitter EMR pill (HIMSS meeting) - April 7
� Brief: Kaiser, Microsoft launch study - April 7
� Brief: Misys, Allscripts merge - April 7
� Brief: Humana buys Illinois health plan - April 7
� Review medical office lease before signing - April 7

March

� Subpoenas issued to insurers in New York rate-setting probe - March 24
� Feature: Getting paid for prevention: Physicians facing coding challenges - March 24
� Brief: Aetna pays $6.6 million in refunds in Maine - March 24
� Brief: Cigna chooses examiner in N.Y. - March 24
� Brief: Tenn. Blues delays doctor rankings - March 24
� New Web site on imaging safety draws criticism - March 24
� How to manage without micromanaging - March 24
� Aetna will continue paying for colonoscopy anesthesia -- for now - March 17
� Google lifts veil on its personal health record - March 17
� United-Sierra merger in Nevada approved -- with conditions - March 17
� Feature: Rumor control: How to battle online misinformation - March 17
� Brief: Health Net reports major breach of physicians' personal information - March 17
� Illinois bill says stores can't have both clinics and tobacco - March 10
� Feature: Politics in practice: How to keep it professional when staff gets partisan - March 10
� Brief: Health plans not a hit with consumers - March 10
� Insurer finds EMRs won't pay off for its doctors - March 10
� Essential provisions of retainer contracts - March 10
� Web site helps doctors find office mates - March 3
� Blues stops asking doctors for rescission help - March 3
� Feature: Are you recession-proof? How the credit crunch affects medicine - March 3
� Brief: Study: Wii improves simulated surgery - March 3
� Brief: Patient records go on bracelet - March 3
� Brief: WebMD merger off - March 3
� Brief: Doctors fight insurers' conversion - March 3
� Brief: Colo. lawmakers consider tiering rules - March 3
� Brief: Tenn. Blues starts ratings - March 3
� New York takes on United over tactics as industry arbiter of physician pay - March 3

February

� Analysts focus on insurers' health outlays - Feb. 25
� California regulatory actions shadow United's pursuit of Sierra - Feb. 25
� Feature: Charting your patients' insurance: It's all in a simple grid - Feb. 25
� Brief: Marriott offers PHR - Feb. 25
� Brief: Microsoft, Mayo team up - Feb. 25
� Wal-Mart partners with hospitals to rapidly expand in-store clinics - Feb. 25
� UnitedHealth faces stiff fines in California - Feb. 18
� Feature: Picking the right process: Deciding the best way to submit claims - Feb. 18
� Brief: Wal-Mart rolls out PHR - Feb. 18
� Brief: Health IT spending increasing - Feb. 18
� Brief: Study notes California IT use - Feb. 18
� Brief: Plan exec speaks out against merger - Feb. 18
� Closing your practice: What to do and when to do it - Feb. 18
� Quick clinics and health kiosks are taking off at airports - Feb. 11
� Massachusetts society evaluates health plans' doctor-rating programs - Feb. 11
� Feature: Making room for faith: Handling religious expression at the office - Feb. 11
� Brief: New hospital company formed - Feb. 11
� Can the Massachusetts Blues revive capitation? New twist includes quality bonus - Feb. 11
� Aetna to stop paying for anesthesiologists during colonoscopies - Feb. 4
� Feature: Is Txting 4 U? Doctors let fingers to the talking - Feb. 4
� Brief: Nursing homes focus of IT standards - Feb. 4
� Study's solution to no-shows: overbooking - Feb. 4
� Take care when firing a patient - Feb. 4

January

� Massachusetts sets new rules for health clinics in retail stores - Jan. 28
� Feature: Private plans, public money: Insurers target federal funds - Jan. 28
� Brief: Wisconsin cancels tech bidding - Jan. 28
� Insurers' online forums invite patients to vent - Jan. 28
� Rural practice: Perceptions and experience - Jan. 28
� Analyze payer mix before deciding how to change it - Jan. 28
� Health plan looks to doctors to steer patients' imaging business - Jan. 21
� Maryland to issue report cards on PPO plans - Jan. 21
� Feature: Giving credit to get what's due: How doctors can help patients pay the bill - Jan. 21
� Brief: Oregon gets health network funding - Jan. 21
� Leapfrog Group updates P4P Web site - Jan. 14
� Neurosurgeon automates answering service - Jan. 14
� Physicians fight Aetna over caps on out-of-network pay - Jan. 14
� Brief: Pediatrix acquires neonatal group - Jan. 14
� Brief: New HIT group forms - Jan. 14
� Brief: Aetna, Cigna expand online consults - Jan. 14
� Enrollment drop has United vowing to be nicer - Jan. 14
� Where patients get their information - Jan. 14
� Don't just sign whatever the EMR vendor provides - Jan. 14
� Former United CEO settles in case charging stock backdating - Jan. 7
� Feature: Click to play: YouTube and similar sites have more doctors getting ready for their close-ups - Jan. 7
� Brief: Anthem offers cheaper small-biz plan - Jan. 7
� Brief: AHIP, Blues and HL7 to work on PHRs - Jan. 7
� Regional exchanges slow to get going - Jan. 7

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