Managed care and the health of a nation.

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...

Designing a managed care model for emerging respiratory infectious diseases in the Iranian health care system

Background and Aim: The purpose of this study is to design a model of managed care for emerging respiratory infectious diseases in the Iranian health care system in 1399. Methods: To achieve this goal, first the effective factors and indicators affecting the managed care model for emerging respiratory infectious diseases are identified based on content analysis technique and then these factors...

Potential anticompetitive effects of most favored nation contract clauses in managed care and health insurance contracts.

Covering a breaking revolution: the media and managed care.

The health care revolution, an inherently complex undertaking, has been oversimplified. With the nation moving into and election year, it is incumbent upon the media, health plans, and policymakers to enlarge and enlighten the health care debate.

Money, mission, and medicine: an innovative managed care partnership between the community health centers of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University.

Across the nation, states are placing their faith in managed care as the solution to the rising health care costs associated with the Medicaid program. Historical providers of care to the vulnerable and uninsured are competing in this new price-sensitive market while struggling to remain faithful to their missions. In Maryland, a unique partnership between an academic health center (Johns Hopki...

Interregional Patient Mobility in the Italian NHS: A Case of Badly-Managed Decentralization; Comment on “Regional Incentives and Patient Cross-Border Mobility: Evidence From the Italian Experience”

The article by Brenna and Spandonaro on interregional mobility for acute hospital care in Italy raises important issues concerning social and territorial equity in a healthcare system. Based on Regions and private providers’ strategic behavior, the hypothesis adopted to explain patient cross-border mobility (CBM), demonstrated by statistical analysis, may be further explored using qualitative m...