Modern Healthcare back issues from January 1997:
Doc wallets fatter in '95.(American Medical Association statistics on physician income)
Jan 06, 1997;
Mo. Blues' status at issue: state judge finds for-profit conversion a violation.(Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri)
Jan 06, 1997;
The HMO scramble: hospitals, systems team up for managed care.(health maintenance organizations)
Jan 06, 1997;
Disclosing doc incentives: new rules force HMOs to tell how physicians are paid; consumer groups dissatisfied.(new federal rules for health maintenance organizations)
Jan 06, 1997;
VHA picks Oacis database: alliance to help firm create electronic medical records.(Oacis Healthcare Systems)
Jan 06, 1997;
PROs branch out: broadening quality-assurance efforts.(peer review organizations)
Jan 06, 1997;
For-profits face challenges: acquiring not-for-profit hospitals will be tougher as states increase objections.(Outlook 1997)
Jan 06, 1997;
Another year of cost cuts: managed care forces frugality; economics of scale elusive.(Outlook 1997)
Jan 06, 1997;
Legal barriers to merging: trustees will need creativity in making deals, setting up charitable funds.(Outlook 1997)
Jan 06, 1997;
HMOs draw worried looks: merger wave gets scrutiny as media slam industry.(health maintenance organizations)(Outlook 1997)
Jan 06, 1997;
Post-acute-care potential: hopes for cost-quality balance move beyond hospital.(Outlook 1997)
Jan 06, 1997;
New tech a tangled Web: execs weigh potential of unproven Internet advances.(Outlook 1997)
Jan 06, 1997;
Getting organized: managed-care firms, Columbia among labor's targets.(Outlook 1997)
Jan 06, 1997;
Retooled survey: VHA to focus on link of physicians and data sources.
Jan 06, 1997;
A balancing act: pols consider cuts in Medicare payment rates to HMOs.(politicians)
Jan 13, 1997;
Making the case: federation seeks equal treatment in sales of not-for-profits.
Jan 13, 1997;
Not-for-profits have say; advocate Miller a step ahead in conversion debate.(Linda Miller)
Jan 13, 1997;
A loss of confidence: AHA report: public believes hospitals' priorities have changed.(American Hospital Association)
Jan 13, 1997;
All systems go; Tenet, OrNda post quarterly earnings as merger nears.(Tenet Healthcare Corp., OrNda HealthCorp.)
Jan 13, 1997;
Michigan hangs tough; for-profits can't find a toehold in hostile terrain.
Jan 13, 1997;
Doc income data impact; rising pay likely to have little effect on policy debate.(doctors' income)
Jan 13, 1997;
Shifty maneuver? Republican lawmakers warn Clinton against home health spending transfer.
Jan 13, 1997;
Teaching docs to save: GM-led partnership aims to make cost part of physicians' treatment decisions.(doctors)
Jan 13, 1997;
Back in public hands; California district reclaims privatized hospital.(El Camino Hospital in Mountain View)
Jan 13, 1997;
Delivering end-of-life care; Supreme Court to rule on doc-assisted suicide bans.(doctor-assisted)
Jan 13, 1997;
Premier, Cerner team up; Alliance seeks to cut costs, time from buying data systems.
Jan 13, 1997;
U.S. Diagnostic sued; criminal record of key adviser at issue in shareholder suits.(Keith G. Greenberg)
Jan 13, 1997;
For-profits spurned; N.C. county county hospitals stay private, citing community interests.(Wake Medical Center, Durham Regional Hospital)
Jan 13, 1997;
Clinton's new weapon; experts say line-item veto will be used rarely; time will tell.
Jan 13, 1997;
Providers must face up to managed-care dilemma.(Editorial)
Jan 13, 1997
Plain and simple: wanted: straightforward proposal for access to healthcare to overcome GOP reluctance.(Word From Washington)(Column)
Jan 13, 1997;
Outsourcing moves into new territory.(Cover Story)
Jan 13, 1997;
Surveying best practices; eight health plans offer lessons for other HMOs.(Managed care)
Jan 13, 1997;
Identity crisis: teaching hospitals find they're misunderstood.(American Medical College report)(Marketing)
Jan 13, 1997;
Burned by success; ProPAC advises rate freeze as hospital Medicare profits soar.(Prospective Payment Assessment Commission)
Jan 20, 1997;
When in doubt, diversify; $1.3 billion deal puts Columbia in pharmacy benefits field.(Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.)
Jan 20, 1997;
Dispro funds targeted; Clinton budget may also have per-capita Medicaid cap.(Medicaid disproportionate-share payments)
Jan 20, 1997;
Doing it right: Mayo takes managed care into its own hands in Ariz.(Mayo Clinic Scottsdale)
Jan 20, 1997;
Maryland, D.C. Blues to merge operations.
Jan 20, 1997;
For-profits' case buoyed; study: charity care continues as not-for-profits convert.(Boston University School of Public Health report)
Jan 20, 1997;
Judge blocks Coney Island Hospital deal.(New York State Supreme Court Justice Herbert A. Posner)
Jan 20, 1997;
Boston hospital picks not-for-profit partner.(New England Medical Center, Lifespan)
Jan 20, 1997;
Claim to fame: five 1997 inductees headed to Health care Hall of Fame.
Jan 20, 1997
Another slice of the pie; Virginia hospital adds affiliation with Bon Secours.
Jan 20, 1997;
Rule of reason redux; Hyde bill would ease antitrust rules for doc networks.(Rep. Henry Hyde, doctor networks)
Jan 20, 1997;
Calif. case may hike outpatient payments.
Jan 20, 1997;
'Second request' blues; FTC probe stalls drugmaker's buy of pharmacy management company.(Federal Trade Commission)
Jan 20, 1997;
Pols PAC it in; campaigns draw $42 million from healthcare interests.(politicians, political action committees)(Citizen Group report)
Jan 20, 1997;
Maine link: Waterville hospital, system eye mergerlike deal.(Inland Hospital, Eastern Maine Healthcare Corp.)
Jan 20, 1997;
Managed care's seamy side; it's time to fight back as executives get rich and patient-care standards drop.(Commentary)
Jan 20, 1997;
1997 Trustees of the Year.(Cover Story)
Jan 20, 1997;
Rope 'em in; Kan. ties together payers to launch performance standards.(Kansas)
Jan 20, 1997;
Defibrillators beat drugs; disputed study finds implanted device cut heart attacks in high-risk patients.(Guidant Corp. study)(Technology)
Jan 20, 1997;
Will docs embrace unions? Some predict rise in organizing to counter managed care.
Jan 20, 1997;
Medicare winners, losers: managed care takes biggest hit in Clinton budget plan.(Clinton Administration's budget plan for fiscal year 1998)
Jan 27, 1997;
Baylor on selling block? University, health system boards at odds over sale.(Baylor University, Baylor Health Care Systems)
Jan 27, 1997;
Readying the big stick: AAMC set to challenge HHS' double-billing probe.(Association of American Medical Colleges, Health and Human Services' Medicare billing)
Jan 27, 1997;
SEIU takes aim: union wants JCAHO to give up 'deemed' status.(Service Employees International Union, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)
Jan 27, 1997;
Tenet moves on St. Louis: acquisition of 3 hospitals would pose new market possibilities.(Tenet Healthcare Corp.)
Jan 27, 1997
The baseline game: setting the rules for Medicare, Medicaid budgeting.(Washington Report)
Jan 27, 1997;
Physicians risk squandering public-opinion ground gained.(Editorial)
Jan 27, 1997
A monumental task.(President Clinton's effort to balance the budget, its effect on Medicare and Medicaid, and other predictions for his second term)(Cover Story)
Jan 27, 1997;
A bow to quality: St. Luke's in Kansas City, Mo., gets '97 NCQHC award.(National Committee for Quality Health Care award)
Jan 27, 1997;
Homing in on home care: Columbia quietly builds largest hospital-based home-care firm in just two years.(Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.)
Jan 27, 1997;
For sale or lease: more for-profits opt for leasing route in hospital deals.(for-profit health systems' acquisition approach to not-for-profit hospitals)
Jan 27, 1997;