For the companies, the intentions of managed care executives like Alan Sokolow, chief medical officer of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, are frightening.
In fact, Judge Lamberth said, the working groups included scores of people from private industry, including managed care executives with potential conflicts of interest.
Patients who take similar drugs, like Nexium, Prevacid, Protonix and Aciphex, may soon find that their health insurers have made the medications more expensive or harder to obtain, managed care executives said.
[Page A1.] More H.M.O.'s Are Exiting Medicare More health maintenance organizations, including Cigna and Aetna, will soon pull out of Medicare or curtail their participation, disrupting insurance coverage for thousands of elderly people, according to federal officials, independent experts and managed care executives.
Distrust is not mistrust, nor the opposite of trust, but a complimentary dimension that can enable doctors, nurses, managed care executives, and even governments who subsidize healthcare, to understand the specific and even positive role of distrust in patient doctor trust.
OVER-THE-COUNTER PRODUCTS -- Every doctor and managed-care executive has an example in this area.
In a twist, one member of the Cuomo administration panel was Ramon Rodriguez, a former managed-care executive and a former State Parole Board chairman in the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's father, Mario.
As a private attorney, as counsel to the Oregon State Senate, as a managed-care executive and finally as Chief Petitioner for Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, she has championed initiatives that enable individuals to consider a full range of choices and be full participants in their healthcare decisions.
More health maintenance organizations will soon pull out of Medicare or curtail their participation, disrupting insurance coverage for hundreds of thousands of elderly people, according to federal officials, independent experts and managed-care executives.
