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9781563273919

Consumer Directed Health Care: A 360 Degree View

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  • ISBN13:

    9781563273919

  • ISBN10:

    1563273918

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-07-07
  • Publisher: Productivity Pr

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With three decades of experience in a variety of healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology firms, respected healthcare consultant, Kim Slocum applies a uniquely broad viewpoint to the U.S. healthcare crisis. He discusses how the system has evolved and debunks various myths that continue to persist. Exploring potential solutions, he balances many diverse and conflicting factors, including the movement to make healthcare more patient-centered and the growing trend to transfer significant portions of financial risk to patients via high-deductibles. Slocum closes the book by discussing what a successful consumer-directed system might look like and what steps would be required to make it happen.  

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
Prefacep. xi
"Baby How'd We Ever Get This Way"p. 1
"The Usual Suspects"p. 21
Aging Population?p. 23
Malpractice Judgments and Defensive Medicine?p. 26
Are Americans Sicker?p. 27
Technology Access?p. 29
Moral Hazard?p. 35
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse?p. 40
"Back Office" Costs?p. 44
Is It the Prices?p. 46
Consumer Directed Health Carep. 51
The RAND Health Insurance Experiment-Impact on Consumer Directed Health Carep. 61
Effects of Consumer Directed Health Carep. 63
Enrollmentp. 64
Effects on Health Care Costs, Utilization, and Qualityp. 67
Shopping Behaviorp. 71
Consumer Satisfactionp. 75
Issues Affecting Consumer Directed Health Carep. 77
Individual versus Group Insurancep. 77
Access to Datap. 80
Consumer Health Literacyp. 82
Decision Makingp. 84
Financial and Administrative Issuesp. 86
What Sort of Health Insurance Plans Do Consumers Want?p. 90
Summaryp. 91
Prescription for the Futurep. 95
Is Health Care a Right or a Privilege?p. 98
Health Care Information Technologyp. 101
Community Rating, Risk Pooling, and Universal Participationp. 105
Provider Payment Reformp. 108
Modified Consumer Financial Incentivesp. 112
Improving the Health Savings Accountp. 115
Technology Assessment and Comparative Effectiveness Reviewsp. 118
Alternativesp. 122
Epiloguep. 125
Recommended Readingp. 127
Indexp. 133
About the Authorp. 145
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