Managed Care Regulation

General

• Managed Care Law Web Links (St. Louis University School of Law)
• HMO Commercialization: Must Good HMOs Go Bad? (NEJM 5/21)
• Is Regulation Inevitable? (NEJM 5/28)
 

Federal

• A GAO Report finds Plans are Holding Back Information (GAO report, 4/98)
• Analysis of HCFA Regulation on Physician Incentive Plans (Families USA: 2/3/97)
• Federal Managed Care Bills and You
• President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry
• Presidential Announcement (3/26/97)
• President Endorses "Patient Bill of Rights" (11/20/97)
• Final Report
• Draft Preamble on Patient Rights (9/30/97)
• Draft Chapter on Consumer Responsibilities (9/26/97)
• Draft Chapter on Patient Confidentiality (9/29/97)
• Draft Chapter on Participation in Treatment Decisions
• Draft Chapter on Emergency Services/Research Trials
• Final Report Issued: (Ordering Info for Free Copy) (AllPolitics.com: 3/13/98)

 
• Executive Order Extends Bill of Rights to Federal Patients (2/20/98) (CNN/Time Magazine report)
• Patient Access to Responsible Care Act (PARCA)
• Legislation (H.R. 1415 introduced by Rep. Charlie Norwood)
• (HMO Reforms: Would Add Modest Costs, Study Says (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Legislation (H.R. 3605, S. 1890 introduced by the Democratic Leadership)
• "Health Care QUEST" or "Health Care Quality, Education, Security and Trust Act" [introduced by Sen. James Jeffords (R-VT) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT)]
• HMO Decision-Making, Patient Opinion Poll in U.S. News Online
• Patient "Bill of Rights" Adopted Without Study of Cost Impact
• HMO Reform: Clinton Calls Patients' Rights "Urgent" ( AP/Philadelphia Inquirer)
• AAHP Press Release: Local Business, Industry Leaders Cite "Devastating" Impact of New Health Care Mandates on Families, Workers and Businesses in Louisiana (3/18/98)
• Analysis
• Legal Analysis of PARCA (HIAA, 2/12/98)
• Legal Analysis of PARCA (NAM, 12/18/97)
• Testimony (NAM, 10/28/97)
• List: Mandates in PARCA (Citizens for Sound Economy, 10/28/97)
• Testimony (Citizens for Sound Economy, 10/27/97)

States

• Texas Department of Insurance: Internet Complaint Information System
 provides data of the state's complaints against HMO's and other health insurers by consumers
• Key State HMO Consumer Protection Provisions (Families USA, 1/97)
• HMO Consumers at Risk: States to the Rescue (Families USA, 7/96)