Managing Care: A Shared Responsibility
Managing Care: A Shared Responsibility

Author: Joseph L. Verheijde

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-01-07

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1402041853

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This book traces the growth of managed care as a mechanism for curbing excessive growth in health costs, and the controversies that have risen around for-profit health care. Also examined are decentralization in US health care, and the absence of comprehensive health care planning, access rules, and minimum health care benefit standards. Finally, the author proposes a framework for improving access to quality, affordable health care in a competitive market environment.

Improving Health in the Community
Improving Health in the Community

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1997-05-21

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0309055342

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How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities. With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority. Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts in the right direction. Within a broad definition of community health, the committee addresses factors surrounding the implementation of performance monitoring and explores the "why" and "how to" of establishing mechanisms to monitor the performance of those who can influence community health. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues. Improving Health in the Community presents an attainable vision of a process that can achieve community-wide health benefits.

Managed Care Quality
Managed Care Quality

Author: A. F. Al-Assaf

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-07-26

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1000162141

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Managed care organizations are paving the way to the future of health care delivery in the United States and countries around the world. As managed care systems evolve, a major concern is quality. Managed Care Quality: A Practical Guide is a collection of applications and experiences gathered from practicing health professionals in the field of managed care. This first "how to" guide was written to help managed care organizations meet the common objective of ensuring the best quality of services and care. Managed Care Quality: A Practical Guide presents successive steps in implementing quality in health care organizations. It introduces the methods, skills, and practices involved in quality health care programs and offers solutions to problems typically encountered in managed care.

Three Realms of Managed Care
Three Realms of Managed Care

Author: Jack Glaser

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781556129599

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Glaser and Hamel offer readers an opportunity to step back from the ethical issues connected with modern health care and reflect on what we are doing, how we are doing it, and what impact our actions (and omissions) are having on the common good. While offering a new ethical paradigm that takes into account the three realms of ethical complexity (societal issues, institutional issues, and individual issues), this book offers articles for reflection and self-examination on various aspects of managed care, taking into account specific issues such as rationing, financial incentives, and full disclosure.

Ethical Challenges in Managed Care
Ethical Challenges in Managed Care

Author: Karen Grandstrand Gervais

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780878407194

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Through twenty case studies that illustrate a wide range of ethical challenges, this book explores the goals, methods, and practices of managed care, and offers practical guidance for addressing the ethical and policy issues inherent in such a system.

Managed Care
Managed Care

Author: Peter Reid Kongstvedt

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780763724986

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A managed care expert overviews the history, structure, regulation, and issues of the complex US health care system. This second edition work was originally published by Aspen in 2002. Much of the information is distilled from another of the doctor's books, The Managed Care Handbook, 4th ed. An extensive glossary is included, but there are no refer

Purchasing Managed Care Services for Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment
Purchasing Managed Care Services for Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment

Author: Stephen Moss

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1997-06

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780788140358

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Intended to provide guidance to those in State AOD (alcohol & other drug treatment) & Medicaid agencies who will be undertaking essential roles as planners & managers of managed care contracts. The guidelines & recommendations presented in this document were developed by a panel of experts from States that are already well advanced in developing State managed care plans for AOD clients. Contents: managed care overview; access to treatment; comprehensiveness of treatment; financial considerations; & consumer protections. Glossary & bibliography. Organizational readiness checklist.