Virginia Business - May 2005

COVER STORY
The Medicaid money crunch
Program's problems affect cost of health care for everyone.

Program helps the needy get discounted medications

Medicaid Roundtable: Administrators at hospitals around Virginia were asked: How does Medicaid funding affect access to care in your area?

COMMERCIAL INSURANCE
Executives waiting to see how probes affect industry

Directory of insurance brokers in Virginia

CONSTRUCTION
Fairfax's answer to sprawl: taller, denser developments around Metro stations

Would expanding Tysons Corner mall double the trouble?

Publisher's profile

REGIONAL REPORT
Fate of Hampton Roads' economy lies in direction of military budget

Mentorship helps small company survive loss of federal contracts

DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Corner
- Results that no one expected

Virginia Ideas
- Utah has lessons for Virginia on handling sprawl and transportation

Around the Old Dominion
- Northern Virginia transportation: pain now, gain later
- Training good employees from the ground up
- Cyberspace gets a little bigger
- Revenge of the nerds
- Philip Morris plans $300 million center
- Peebles expands its local presence

In the Workplace
- Forget Big Brother, these days the IT staff may be watching
- On the regulatory front
- Employee assistance programs boost productivity and profits
- Employment outlook survey

Followups
An update on companies and trends featured in recent issues:
- AirTran Airways
- Allen & Allen
- L. Douglas Wilder

Reporter's Notebook
Notes and thoughts from the travels of Virginia Business writers and editors

For the Record
Mergers & acqusitions	Cutbacks, closings	Stocks, financing
Deals	Products, services	Legal, regulatory
New plants	Divestitures	Noteworthy
People	Expansions
Contracts	Real estate