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the caregiver needs other information, information that is clinical "for patients or covered members from all segments of integrat...
the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...
In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...
By the early 1930s, the issue had become politically viable and in 1938 "the struggle over control of health care spilled over int...
figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...
century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...
In fifteen pages this paper examines Medicare in an assessment of fee for services vs. managed care plans. Fifteen sources are ci...
In five pages this paper presents a physician interview sample in which he expresses the system changes he would implement with re...
physician should have more power than presently granted. II. Solutions In trying to come up with solutions, one should first...
In a paper consisting of five pages the key supporters, opponents and flaws of the bill are considered. There is also a letter ad...
In twenty pages this paper examines mental health services as they have increasingly become a part of the managed care landscape. ...
In five pages this paper defines health care management and then considers changes and what adaptations management will have to ma...
In 11 pages managed care is considered in an overview of its pros and cons with the primary focus being on systems in the states o...
teams keeps the companys name at the industrys forefront THREATS * Restricted expansion within a very defined and specific niche i...
In fourteen pages this paper examines systems of managed care from a current and future nursing perspective. Eight sources are ci...
In ten pages managed healthcare plans are examined in terms of the pros and cons of using formularies and the emphasis is on that ...
In ten pages the advantages of using formularies in healthcare plan management are discussed. There are eighteen bibliographic so...
to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...
as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...
cover the costs of catastrophic illness, but otherwise they maintained their own routine health care. The route of health care ac...
providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...
majority group in the United States. When considering other population groups, the disparities are even greater. The purpose her...
and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...
have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...
it actually created more problems than it solved? An Overview of Fragmentation Once upon a time, medicine was a fairly str...
Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...
staff or group model HMOs would provide all health care by the mid-1990s, but, in actuality, such HMOs have been declining in numb...
the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...
partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...