Managed Care

by Brown, Montague

• ISBN13: 9780834205048
• ISBN10: 0834205041
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

Summary

Here in 25 authoritative articles drawn from the highly respected journal, Health Care Management Review, discover what you'll need to lead your organization into the generation of managed care. From short-range issues like making existing product lines efficient to the policy logic of building comprehensive, integrated systems, this reference will help managers in a provider, insurer, buyer, or government organization create a successfully integrated organization.

Table of Contents

Managed Competition: The Future?

Getting To Go in Managed Care

Strategy, Structure, and Managed Care

Vertical Integration in Health Services

Vertical Integration

The Economic Transformation of American Health Insurance

Health Maintenance Organizations

Hospital Health Care Plan Affiliations

Hospitals and Managed Care

Strategies Employed by HMOs to Achieve Hospital Discounts

The Growth and Effects of Hospital Selective Contracting

Contracts between Hospitals and Health Maintenance Organizations

Product Lines in a Complex Marketplace

A Hospital Administrator's Guide to Successful HMO Negotiations

Critical Factors for Successful Hospital-Based Case Management

Physicians and Managed Care

Factors for Success

Lessons Learned Hiring HMO Medical Directors

Critical Factors in Recruiting Health Maintenance Organization Physicians

Career Paths of Physician Executives

Physician-Managers

The Secrets of Medical Management

Impact of IPAs on Fee-for-Service Medical Group

Organization and Management Issues in Managed Care

Determinants of HMO Success

An Assessment of Employer's Experiences with HMOs

Management Information Systems

Controlling Disenrollment in Health Maintenance Organizations

A Model for Understanding Benefit Segmentation in Preventive Health Care

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