Managed care: emphasis on managed.

Managed care : Practice

The results of coordinating and changing patterns of health care using managed care activities and organizations are reviewed in this article. Although utilization review and high-cost case management programs reduce the use of expensive services, incentives for providers of care, placing them at risk, are important for managing the intensity of health care. Managed care appears capable of redu...

Managed care: practice parameters.

The adoption of RBRVS has and will continue to dramatically alter the way in which physicians are paid. The debate over national health care continues to be a top item on the nation's agenda. Experiments on the predetermined rationing of health care are now being conducted. While these topics have stolen the headlines, another important movement has quietly gained great momentum. Louis Sullivan...

Considerations in managed care.

Managed Care Effectiveness

Managed care issues were volatile during the last 5 years and the related publications mirror that controversy. An important trait of the articles published on managed care was how quickly they outdated. Much of the literature published in 1999 focused on the source of the managed care backlash or was in response to proposed patients’ bill of rights legislation; for example, the October 1999 is...

Managed care: provider profiling.

The Physician Payment Review Commission has examined the potential of profiling physician practice patPR. Lee and A.B. Bindman, Institute for Healty Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco. P.R. Lee, D.W. Shapiro and R.D. Lasker, Physician Payment Review Commission. A.B. Bindman, Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital. terns within the context oi c...