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Some HMOs are attempting their own limited reforms. Just a month before the Goodrich award, all HMOs in California agreed to submit to review by an outside panel of doctors. Fifteen states allow patients to appeal HMO decisions to a state board, though critics say the panels almost always side with the insurer...
...tumor soon after she was told her headaches were nothing more than anxiety attacks, the Texas model is serving as something of a laboratory for reformers elsewhere. The landslide of litigation that critics predicted failed to materialize. Only one malpractice suit has so far been filed. The new state review panels expected to be deluged by 4,400 appeals from unhappy patients in the first year alone, but only 280 cases were heard, and in half those the boards ruled for the HMO. Doctors in the state say HMOs seem to have become more inclined to accept suggested treatments...
STILL DEAD, THOUGH Pol Pot died of an overdose, not a heart attack as Cambodian officials claimed last April, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review. The late dictator swallowed tranquilizers and antimalarial pills upon discovering that a Khmer Rouge comrade, Ta Mok, planned to turn him over to the U.S. for trial. Ta Mok offered to make Pol Pot available in March, the article by journalist Nate Thayer claimed. But U.S. officials declined, saying they needed more time to prepare to arrest...
Some good and bad news on managed care: Aetna U.S. Healthcare said last week that it would allow its customers to appeal coverage denials to an external review board. Other HMOs, like United Healthcare, are expected to follow suit. But many HMOs are raising average co-payments for prescriptions $5 to $15. Tip: stick with generic drugs...
...director, film critic and biographer Peter Bogdanovich thinks out of the box--these days, way out of the box. His latest effort: directing a Wonderful World of Disney TV movie about parental role reversal. (It airs Jan. 24, and it's fun!) But don't look for a review in Film Comment...