| Date |
State |
Title of Article |
| 2007 November |
Minnesota
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
U.P. Michigan
Wisconsin |
Focus: Health Care Pricing
Through the maze, darkly
Rising medical costs are shining the spotlight on the complexity of health care pricing.
Transparency to the rescue?
The semantics of health care prices
Transparency is obscured by the complexity of today’s health care system.
Is there a consumer in the house?
If you haven’t heard of consumer-driven health care, hang around, because it will likely be making a visit to a health plan near you. |
| 2007 March |
Minnesota
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
U.P. Michigan
Wisconsin |
Intensive care for rural hospitals
Critical access program brings life, hope back to some rural hospitals. But if access is the goal, it may be overmedicating. |
| 2007 January |
Minnesota
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
U.P. Michigan
Wisconsin |
Focus: Health Care Capital Spending
Rx for aging health care facilities
Health care capital investment has surged across most of the district, but the wish list isn't necessarily getting any shorter.
You are what you reimburse
What drives capital spending in health care?
Follow the money.
The next IT in health care
Sophisticated information technology is a must-have for health care organizations. |
| 2006 March |
Minnesota
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
U.P. Michigan
Wisconsin |
Putting a price, and a cap,
on pain and suffering
How the current medical malpractice
crisis affects the Ninth District. |
| 2006 January |
Minnesota
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wisconsin |
Focus: Rural Pharmacies
The other pharm crisis
The pharmacy industry faces a multitude of challenges, and rural areas confront the possibility of losing pharmacy services.
Sidebar: Filling a prescription for more pharmacies
Cash, check or third party?
Prescription benefit plans are squeezing retail pharmacies.
Special delivery?
Innovations are changing how, where and when people receive pharmacy services. Not everyone is thrilled. [Web only] |
| 2002 July |
Minnesota
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
U.P. Michigan
Wisconsin |
Cures
for health care ills
Are there answers to our health care problems? Here are four ideas
and how they're faring in the Ninth District |
| 2002 May |
Minnesota
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
U.P. Michigan
Wisconsin |
Focus: Health Care Costs
The cost of living
Health care spending is higher than ever and still climbing.
Why? And what can be done about it?
Life is good
Considering benefits—and accurately measuring costs—is
critical when evaluating health care spending.
Beyond supply and demand
The reasons for increased health care costs go beyond simple supply
and demand, and solutions are tougher than they seem. |
| 2002 May |
Minnesota
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
U.P. Michigan
Wisconsin |
Rural health
care: Heal thyself?
|
| 1997 January |
Montana |
Rural hospitals
get new life, sustain towns |
| 1997 January |
U.P. Michigan |
Telemedicine network
links U.P. hospitals |
| 1994 April |
Minnesota |
Virginia
clinic launches new physician program |
| 1994 April |
South Dakota |
Telemedicine
furnishes lifeline to rural hospitals and clinics |
| 1993 July |
Wisconsin |
Eau Claire
hospital expansion: Who will benefit? |
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