Arnold Relman argues that medical education does not prepare students and residents to practice their profession in today's corporate health care system. Corporate health care administrators agree: Physicians ente...
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Arnold Relman argues that medical education does not prepare students and residents to practice their profession in today's corporate health care system. Corporate health care administrators agree: Physicians enter the workforce unskilled in contract negotiation, evidence-based medicine, navigating bureaucratic systems, and so forth. What about practicing physicians? Do they agree as well? According to this study, they do. Feeling like decentered double agents and unprepared, physicians find themselves professionally lost, struggling to balance issues of cost and care and expressing lots of negativity toward the cultures of medicine and managed care. However, physicians are resilient. A group of physicians, who may be called proactive, are meeting the professional demands of corporate health care by becoming sophisticated about its bureaucratic organization and the ways in which their professional and personal commitments fit within the system. Following the lead of proactive physicians, the auf hors support Relman's thesis that education for both students and physicians requires a major overhaul.
Risk adjustment may be a sensible strategy to reduce selection bias because it links managed care payment directly to the costs of providing services. In this paper we compare risk adjustment models in two populations...
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The notion of using case managers to coordinate care and services to the elderly has become increasingly popular. Case management appears to be seen by some as the route to reform and rationalization of the financing ...
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A stratified, random sample of 80 providers in the Massachusetts Medicaid Managed Mental Health/Substance Abuse Program were interviewed by phone to assess their views of the program in year four. Providers continued ...
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A stratified, random sample of 80 providers in the Massachusetts Medicaid Managed Mental Health/Substance Abuse Program were interviewed by phone to assess their views of the program in year four. Providers continued to believe that access and quality were the same or better than a year earlier, that client severity continued to increase while length of stay decreased, that readmissions and emergency room admissions were the same as a year earlier, and that aftercare was the same or better than a year earlier. Substantial problems were reported in the integration of services, in linkages with support services, and with administration of the program.
In urban areas, employers are frequently in the forefront of efforts to implement managed care initiatives at the community level, either individually or through coalitions. While employer-driven managed care initiati...
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In urban areas, employers are frequently in the forefront of efforts to implement managed care initiatives at the community level, either individually or through coalitions. While employer-driven managed care initiatives also exist in rural areas, they are less common and much less is known about them. This article describes and analyzes the early experience of a large rural employer-the state of South Dakota-in its attempt to develop and implement a managed care initiative. Several aspects of that experience suggest that employer-driven managed care models in urban sites may require reexamination and redefinition for implementation in rural areas.
In Belgium the management and administration of the compulsory and universal health insurance is left to a limited number of non-governmental non-profit sickness funds. Since 1995 these sickness funds are partially fi...
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The healthcare environment is rapidly changing as managed care penetrates your community. Risk management in the office setting is becoming more critical as the strategies for preventing claims in the first place beco...
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The healthcare environment is rapidly changing as managed care penetrates your community. Risk management in the office setting is becoming more critical as the strategies for preventing claims in the first place become more important. It is time to reexamine the environment that is being created, increase the involvement of patients in their own care, create documentation systems and recognize when you are at risk.
As managed care spreads through the health care service industry, marketing professionals are faced with the challenge of marketing highly integrated systems. This paper explores three questions related to this develo...
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