Why managed care has failed to contain health costs.

Why managed care cannot contain hospital costs--without rationing.

Reports of Its Demise Are Premature

care costs, and they have failed to fill the gaping voids in coverage. Yet politicians continue on a path to increase the involvement of these failed models of ‘reform’ by expanding their participation in our public programs. . . It is long past time for our nation to open up the dialogue on replacing these antiquated health plans. . . . ” The New York Times Letter to the Editor December 26, 20...

Evaluation of managed health care in contagious and non-contagious diseases in Golestan province, northern Iran during 2016

Background and Objective: Managed health care is one of the main components of universal health care systems, which recently has drawn more attentions. Therefore, based on the high costs of health system, poor quality of services, reduce efficiency, it is necessary to study and design a model to distinguish managed form unmanaged systems in Iran. This study was done to evaluate the managed heal...

The consumer-driven approach: can it pick up where managed care left off?

Managed care has failed and health care costs are once again out of control. Given the current political, social and economic environment, there are now two options: a single-payer health care system, or an aggressive and global employer health benefits redesign that strongly encourages consumer-driven behavior. This article discusses the failure of managed care and ways that employers can prom...

Impact of managed care on mental health services.

The cost of mental health care continues to rise at a rate greater than that of the rest of the health care sector. Efforts to contain the rising costs of psychiatric and substance abuse care have spawned different strategies for reducing use of expensive hospital resources. Strategies that focus on the management of hospital episodes case by case fall under the rubric of managed care. In this ...