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Who: Foundation Health Systems, Inc. (Los Angeles) and Physician Health Services, Inc. (Shelton, Conn.) When: May 8, 1997 (announced); expected to become official end of year. Total Employees: 1,022-Physician Health Services (PHS); 15,000-Foundation Health Systems,… Continued

July 17-19: Understanding Managed Care (An Introduction For Managers New to Managed Care). American Association of Health Plans. Washington, D.C., 202/728-4040 September 10-13: Second Annual Educational Conference of Healthcare Strategy and Market Development. Desert Springs,… Continued

The days of winning over Medicaid recipients through overly aggressive direct marketing incentives are quickly coming to an end, as more and more state Medicaid agencies are stepping up efforts to "protect the healthcare interest"… Continued

Partnership Healthcare Giants Team Up To Study Consumer Feedback to Physician Access To measure enrollee feedback and satisfaction, CalPERS, the second largest purchaser of healthcare in the nation and largest in California, and Health Net,… Continued

Does your state use a health benefits consultant/broker-based program to enroll Medicaid recipients into a managed care Medicaid plan? More than likely it does, according to the recent Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment Study, conducted by… Continued

CHICAGO – Useful marketing tips from the conference floor of "Strategies in a Dynamic Healthcare World," sponsored by The Alliance for Healthcare Strategy and Marketing held here last month, looks at Medicaid marketing strategy, building… Continued

When the marketers at PHAMIS Inc. (Public Health Automated Medical Information Systems) geared up to launch its corporate identity campaign last Fall, they went to the Himalayan mountains. PHAMIS and its agency, Phinney Bischoff Design… Continued

"Psychographics." It sounds like the doodles you made with Spiro-Graph kits when you were a kid. But it’s actually a proven scientific method for segmenting the population into distinct groups of personality types – and… Continued

For many state health departments where heat descends upon its markets only in the summer months, educating the public on heat-related emergencies and risk factors requires highly orchestrated public education campaigns that county health departments… Continued

The following lists some of the key (and most recent) guidelines drafted by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) Office of Managed Care for use by states that allow health plans to market to Medicaid… Continued