Managing Managed Care
Managing Managed Care

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1997-04-21

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0309175054

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Managed care has produced dramatic changes in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse problems, known as behavioral health. Managing Managed Care offers an urgently needed assessment of managed care for behavioral health and a framework for purchasing, delivering, and ensuring the quality of behavioral health care. It presents the first objective analysis of the powerful multimillion-dollar accreditation industry and the key accrediting organizations. Managing Managed Care draws evidence-based conclusions about the effectiveness of behavioral health treatments and makes recommendations that address consumer protections, quality improvements, structure and financing, roles of public and private participants, inclusion of special populations, and ethical issues. The volume discusses trends in managed behavioral health care, highlighting the emerging role of the purchaser. The committee explores problems of overlap and fragmentation in the delivery of behavioral health care and discusses the issue of access, a special concern when private systems are restricted and public systems overburdened. Highly applicable to the larger health care system, this volume will be of particular interest to all stakeholders in behavioral healthâ€"federal and state policymakers, public and private purchasers, health care providers and administrators, consumers and consumer advocates, accrediting organizations, and health services researchers.

Managed Care
Managed Care

Author: Montague Brown

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780834205048

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Here in 25 authoritative articles drawn from the highly respected journal Health Care Management Review, you'll 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.

Managed Care Strategies
Managed Care Strategies

Author: George B. Moseley

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780834207356

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This book is a guide to strategic training for physicians in an era of managed care. The first half of the book provides a step-by-step process to help physicians take their practices into the new world of integrated delivery systems. The second half of the book covers a variety of key topics such as credentialing, reimbursement systems, and utilization management.

Making Managed Healthcare Work
Making Managed Healthcare Work

Author: Peter Boland

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 9780834203914

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Making Managed Healthcare Work is your comprehensive guide to developing and implementing a new strategic approach to managed care that's practical, performance-based, and results-oriented. Learn how to prepare for, identify, pursue, negotiate and implement a new type of managed care arrangement that can accomplish the objective of delivering quality care at competitive prices.

Managed Care
Managed Care

Author: Margaret M. Conger

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 1999-01-27

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1452221103

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Of all the recent changes in health care, none have more dramatically affected both patients and care providers than managed care. Not only has it altered the way we pay for health care but also it has compelled a change in the way we approach health care, focusing increasingly on preventive care to reduce costs. In Managed Care, Dr. Margaret M. Conger and her colleagues examine the impact of managed care on nursing as a profession and nurses as individual caregivers. Organized into three sections, Managed Care looks at the nature of managed care, nursing strategies in acute care hospitals, and nursing strategies in community settings. Section I examines the evolution of managed care, definitions, and issues informing this method of service delivery, and nursing involvement in quality of care and case management. In Section II, the authors look at acute care settings, discussing the use of nurse extenders, advanced practice nursing, case management, automated clinical pathways, and outcome research. Section III addresses the community settings and explores case management, advanced practice roles in community health clinics, and collaboration in primary care settings. Managed Care will serve as an excellent course text on nursing and managed care, as well as being a useful introduction and shelf reference for professional nurses at all levels.

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.

The Five Stages of Managed Care
The Five Stages of Managed Care

Author: Russell C. Coile

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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Russell Coile defines the five stages of managed care, & examines strategies that providers & payors use to succeed today & prepare for the healthcare delivery system of tomorrow. Includes examples of delivery systems throughout the country. "The model Coile develops provides a useful frame of reference for organizing ideas, & the listed strategies provide a useful starting point for developing strategic alternatives."-Healthcare Financial Management magazine.

Case Management
Case Management

Author: Suzanne K. Powell

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780781718837

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The Second Edition of this comprehensive "how to" text has been completely revised and updated. This text outlines the basics of case management and illustrates some of the pitfalls encountered in the field of case management. The book provides information on the new Case Management Standards, supplies standard definitions and guidelines of case management for the practicing case manager, and presents information on caring for clients in a wide variety of health care settings. New to this edition--chapters focusing on Quality Reviews and Risk Management with a strong emphasis on Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), ethical and legal issues, and various case studies.