Lewin Insight , the e-newsletter of The Lewin Group, focuses on real and pressing health care and human services challenges faced by institutions, communities, governments and people. Stories highlight ways Lewin analyzes and helps solve these problems.

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• Framework for Developing Medication Therapy Management Programs
  This report is intended to serve as a resource for pharmacists, health plans, and PDP sponsors charged with designing and implementing a Medicare MTM program.
• Comparative Evaluation of Pennsylvania's HealthChoices Program and Fee-for-Service Program
  This report draws distinctions between what can occur under the managed fee-for-service environment versus the capitated HealthChoices model and concludes that HeatlhChoices is a highly successful program that appears to be working remarkably well for all stakeholders and to be delivering on all fronts.
• Considerations for Regulating Surplus Accumulation and Community Benefit Activities of Pennsylvania's BCBS Plans
  Just released, findings from a Lewin study of the regulation and disposition of reserves and surpluses of health insurers in Pennsylvania—specifically the four Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in the state.

• Health Information Technology (HIT) Leadership Panel Report
• Patient Friendly Billing
• Burden of Skin Diseases - 2005
• Assessment of Medicaid Managed Care Expansion Options in Illinois
• Actuarial Assessment of Medicaid Managed Care Expansion Options
• Medicaid Managed Care Cost Savings - A Synthesis of Fourteen Studies
• Design of Texas Disease Management Performance Monitoring
• Medicaid Cost Containment
• Automating Enrollment Works!
• Bush and Kerry Health Plan Analysis
• Study on Discount Drug Cards Shows Savings
• Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Conference Agenda Released
• Survey Highlights Hospitals' Varying ED Capacity Challenges
• Hospitals are Major Contributor to the U.S. Economy
• New Way to Identify and Control Health Care Costs
• Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Calculator
• Pharmacy Carve-Out Option for Arizona
• Pills and Payers: The Federal Perspective
• Road to Recovery: Behavioral Health Community Supports
• Coverage for the Uninsured - Analysis of Ten Proposals
• Paperless On-site Data Collection for Health Care Organizations
• Multivitamin Use by the Elderly Could Save Medicare $1.6 Billion
• Organ Donation: Best Practices Identified
• Patience or Patients? Key Hospital Industry Trends
• Paying for Performance: Creating Incentives for Quality Improvement
• Implementing the New Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC)
• Simplifying Medi-Cal: California's Medicaid Program
• Medicaid Dilemma & Trends Affecting Health Systems: Two TrendWatch Products
• Evaluation of a Managed Long Term Care Program
• Cost Drivers in Healthcare
• Working Disabled Program: California Looks Ahead
• Group Purchasing Organizations: Assessing Their Value
• Out-of-Wedlock Births: Reduction Efforts By States
• Older Adults Waiver for Home and Community Based Services
• Public Health Data Standards Consortium Goes Live
• Impact of President Bush's Proposed Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
• Sharp Rise in the Cost of Diabetes Nationwide

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