The McKesson system is used by managed care organizations and other providers to organize health care delivery.
Everybody is looking to control costs, from the government to managed care organizations to employers.
Patients will be better protected if there were greater symmetry between doctors and managed care organizations.
Opinion polls show that voters want Congress to set stringent standards for health insurance, especially managed care organizations.
In 1998, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that half of all beneficiaries would eventually be in such managed care organizations.
Some of the mistakes that were being made by managed care organizations -- they stopped making those mistakes".
The later problems, he wrote, came from inexperience managed care organizations and the state's lack of fiscal control.
But some drug makers have used "nominal" prices in sales to hospitals and managed care organizations, subverting the intent of the law, officials contend.
Health maintenance organizations, managed care organizations, insurance companies and drug companies all operate on a legally mandated responsibility to maximize profits for shareholders.
One is that managed care organizations may make deals with hospitals that give them the best prices, and ignore the information on the quality of health care.
Medicaid payments made to the managed care organizations have increased to more than $7 billion last year from $1 billion in 1996, the attorney general's office said.
