Group practice strategies to manage pharmaceutical cost in an HMO network

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans 32%
• Case Management 11%
• Case Managers 42%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 45%
• Cross-Sectional Studies 6%
• Drug and Narcotic Control 11%
• Drug Costs 12%
• Gatekeeping 50%
• Group Practice 100%
• Health Expenditures 10%
• Health Maintenance Organizations 90%
• Linear Models 8%
• Managed Care Programs 11%
• Medical Records 8%
• Nurses 15%
• Organizations 8%
• Outpatients 46%
• Pharmaceutical Preparations 29%
• Physicians 13%
• Practice Guidelines 9%
• Practice Management 12%
• Primary Care Physicians 11%
• Primary Health Care 24%
• Regression Analysis 6%

Social Sciences

• Case management techniques 17%
• case managers 34%
• costs 40%
• drug 6%
• expenditures 7%
• gatekeeper 10%
• Group 2%
• group practice 90%
• group size 10%
• interaction 8%
• managed care 10%
• management 8%
• Medical records 10%
• medication 31%
• nurse 13%
• outpatient care 13%
• pharmaceutical 67%
• physician 20%
• regression analysis 7%
• sales representative 29%