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Overview of HMOs

In five pages heath maintenance organizations are the focus of this overview that defines them, discusses their purpose, and means...

Is Health Care Improved by HMOs?

In five pages this paper examines if HMO actually improves health care and by what means it endeavors to do so. Eight sources are...

HMOs and Health Care in the United States

In eight pages this paper discusses America's managed health care delivery systems in an overview of HMOs and their negative perce...

Mission and Application of the NCQA

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and its mission which is to assess A...

Cost Cutting and HMOs

In nine pages this paper discusses HMOs' cost cutting approaches and how they may ultimately cost more than they save. Six source...

Answers to Health Questions

In five pages this paper examines seven topics pertaining to the health care industry in terms of potential questions that might r...

Restrictions of HMOs

In six pages this paper examines the restrictions HMOs place regarding receiving medical care and examines emancipation and abolit...

History and Future of HMOs

also had increased dramatically: by 1994, that percentage of GNP had increased to 15 percent and had topped the $1 trillion mark ...

Managed Health Care and HMOs

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the health care industry in an overview of cost containment and HMO and managed...

HMO Industry Place of Kaiser Permanente

In nine pages Kaiser Permanente is examined in an overview of its history and position in the HMO industry. Seven sources are cit...

New York's HMOs and Managed Health Care

In fourteen pages this paper presents an overview of managed health care and then focuses upon legal, staffing, and financial cons...

Oxford, HMOs and the Health Care Industry

types of bonuses that doctors can be paid for cutting costs (Eastman & Eastman, 1997). While they have a point, if regulators will...

Health Payment Systems and Economics

In eight pages the U.S. medical economy is examined within the context of HMOs and their impact. Seven sources are cited in the b...

Health Maintenance Organizations' System Improvements

In three pages this paper examines how HMOs can be improved in order to ensure better care quality. Three sources are cited in th...

Relationship Between Patient and Doctor and Managed Care

In eight pages this paper examines the HMO model in a discussion of managed care and its impact upon the relationship between doct...

Health Care Industry Strategic Planning

In eleven pages this paper discusses strategic planning in the health care industry with HMOs and their impact, the relationship b...

HMOs and Price Reduction

In nine pages this paper discusses how HMO providers attempt to slash costs for health care goods and services. Six sources are c...

HMOs and Metaparadigms of Nursing

the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...

Preventive Strategies, Cost Containment, and Managed Care

stability, while the goal of tertiary prevention "is to help the patient return to wellness following treatment" (Torakis and Smig...

Uninsured and HMOs

citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years, the general system also has been char...

Controlling Costs and HMOs

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

Questions Regarding Issues in Managed Care

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

Crisis in Health Care and the HMO Model

wider array of coverage options so that all patients would be treated well. In essence, while people cannot choose any doctor they...

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

A Wireless Network for a Healthcare Organization

analysts may obtain much of the data in advance they may not be able to foresee of data required by management. The ability to acc...

HMOs and The Evolution of Managed Care

century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...

Historical Consideration of Health Management Organizations

In eight pages this paper considers HMOs in terms of their health care system significance and reasons behind their development. ...

Managing Managed Health Care

In a paper consisting of ten pages managed health care system's many challenges are discussed with HMOs specifically addressed in ...

Comprehensive Overview of America's Health Care System

family became very sick, required surgery, or even broke a bone. Medial bills of this sort have wiped people out and put them in b...

Managed Care's Pros and Cons

In eleven pages this paper discuses PPOs and HMOs in an evaluation of these managed care system's pros and cons. Twelve sources a...