Disability and the managed care frenzy: a cautionary note.

Disability And The Managed Care Frenzy: A Cautionary Note

THE ILLUSIVE LOGIC OF INTEGRATION Healthcare Forum Journal (September/October 1994): 26-31 THE PROSPECT OF HEALTH REFORM HAS UNLEASHED A FRENZY OF activity in healthcare: mergers, consolidations, alliances, physician-hospital organization

THE PROSPECT OF HEALTH REFORM HAS UNLEASHED A FRENZY OF activity in healthcare: mergers, consolidations, alliances, physician-hospital organization development, practice acquisition, and the like. These strategies assume managed care-based reform, in which funding for those who are newly enfranchised will flow not to individual providers, but to systems and networks. This assumption is probably...

Analysis of the Impact of Managed Pressure Drilling Technology on Current Casing Program Design Methods (TECHNICAL NOTE)

This paper analyzed the characteristics of managed pressure drilling (MPD) technology and impact of wellhead back pressure on the wellbore annulus pressure profile, and found that the application of this technology provides room for improvement to the current casing program design. Meanwhile, the equivalent density of drilling fluid in wellbore annulus needs to consider the impact of back press...

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...

Implications of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) programs for managed care pharmacy.

In the last 2 decades, health care management has been challenged by more aggressive therapy, the increased number of specialty medications, and more stringent guidelines to monitor adverse events or health risk. To promote patient safety, various communication requirements are mandated to increase the risk awareness of patients and physicians. These include black-box warnings, "Dear Health Car...