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Articles in July, 1991 issue of Business & Health

• The issue of the decade? - health care reform and lack of access to medical care will become a major political concern - editorial
  by Kenneth Moss
• Bundling outpatient costs - Health Care Financing Administration's plans to expand prospective payment system to outpatient care with formation of Ambulatory Patient Groups - column
  by Joyce Frieden
• Overutilization and M.D. self-referrals - physicians referring patients to health care facilities and laboratories in which they have an ownership interest - Column
  by Peter Kazon
• Rising retiree costs - Data Watch
• Time to feed the FASB: corporate America's imminent challenge: how to cope with the new accounting rules without blowing the budget - or blowing off retiree health care programs - Financial Accounting Standards Board's rules on accounting for current and
  by Linda Stern
• Managed care: the final option - column
  by Henry Aaron
• Lighten up! Texas Utilities learned that seeking employee input before making benefits changes pays off in increased employee cooperation
  by Stanley Siegelman
• No bailout required; Great Western Financial is one savings and loan with its eye on the bottom line. Its health care cost increases have been nickels and dimes compared to the corporate average
  by Lynne Christensen
• UR only as good as what you save: UR is making strides toward becoming friendlier to employees, employers, and physicians. But is it really helping to control costs? - utilization review; includes articles on mental health/substance abuse benefits, catast
  by Marc Grobman
• Making the workplace a fit place: "ergonomically safe" is the new buzzphrase. It means adapting the task to the human limitations of the worker - includes article on the components of good ergonomical employer management programs
  by Aileen Kantor
• Practice audits made perfect - recovery of overpayments through medical practice audits
  by Mark Holoweiko
• Managed care law west of the Pecos - Texas law on managed care and utilization review - column
  by Robert McCarthy
• Case management: solving the 70/10 equation: when costs run amok and patients languish, who ya gonna call? - includes articles on artificial intelligence in case management and steps involved in creating a care plan for a quadriplegic
  by Pamela Taulbee