The economics of health-care delivery are causing an increased consolidation via proliferation of large integrated delivery systems. [FN1] As this consolidation continues, two trends are emerging in health law that apparently will yield a form of greater liability and accountability for organized providers of health care, especially managed care organizations (MCOs).[FN2] The first trend arises...

Pharmacoeconomics is defined as the science of identifying and comparing costs and the consequences of drug therapy in health care programs. As a sub-discipline of health economics, pharmacoeconomics, is fairly a new research discipline in the world which has come about mainly in response to economic pressures on health systems. The root of this pressure lies in the mismatch of enhanced demand ...

increasing of the aging population in most of the developed countries should be more attention to the health issues of this aged group. in iran, the ageing program has been launched and some institutes or organizations have been in charge of this program. the coordination of health policies and activities in elderly care programs and ageing networks could be helped to improve of elderly life sp...

T otal compensation for senior medical managers in HMOs increased, on average, 5 percent last year — similar to growth rates of previous years. According to a study by the Tampa, Fla.-based Physician Executive Management Center, a physician executive search firm, compensation for these people (medical directors, vice presidents for medical affairs, and physicians with similar titles) varies lit...

Skeptics question nonprofit health care on the grounds that nonprofits fail to distinguish themselves from their for-profit counterparts and do not reliably provide community benefits commensurate with their tax subsidies. Drawing on the most recent and comprehensive evidence, we assess these charges, judging them to be either wrong or incomplete. Although conventional critiques are therefore u...

The PMHP provides mental health services for pregnant and postnatal women, train those who work with mothers to improve the quality of their care, form partnerships to promote the scale up of services and inform local and global interventions through robust research and advocacy. We support state agencies and partner with non-profit organisations to achieve health and social development objecti...

North American hospitals have historically struggled to engage in prevention and health promotion activities because they have not been incentivized or held accountable for doing so. However, in order to be exempt from federal taxes, 3,000 non-profit hospitals in the US must now regularly assess the health status of the communities they serve, and take action to address identified health needs....

Our findings indicate a substantial need for language services for both commercial and public HMO members. Publicly-insured HMO members are generally offered more language services than their commercial counterparts. However, commercial HMOs have been inconsistent in offering such services across types of coverage despite the fact that HMOs receive federal funds and are required to provide lang...