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Health Maintenance Organizations' System Improvements

In three pages this paper examines how HMOs can be improved in order to ensure better care quality. Three sources are cited in th...

Relationship Between Patient and Doctor and Managed Care

In eight pages this paper examines the HMO model in a discussion of managed care and its impact upon the relationship between doct...

Health Care Industry Strategic Planning

In eleven pages this paper discusses strategic planning in the health care industry with HMOs and their impact, the relationship b...

Health Payment Systems and Economics

In eight pages the U.S. medical economy is examined within the context of HMOs and their impact. Seven sources are cited in the b...

Issue of Controlling Drug Prices in Healthcare

In eleven pages drug price control as it relates to healthcare and specifically HMOs are examined in terms of the impact of health...

HMOs and Metaparadigms of Nursing

the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...

Preventive Strategies, Cost Containment, and Managed Care

stability, while the goal of tertiary prevention "is to help the patient return to wellness following treatment" (Torakis and Smig...

Uninsured and HMOs

citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years, the general system also has been char...

Crisis in Health Care and the HMO Model

wider array of coverage options so that all patients would be treated well. In essence, while people cannot choose any doctor they...

Controlling Costs and HMOs

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

Questions Regarding Issues in Managed Care

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

Healthcare Definitions and the Retail Drug Sector

such the journey to one of these stores will often be more convenient. Value is also added with the use of own brands, differentia...

Rationing Health Care and Ethics

where there is reduced access and denial of necessary services to patients in general (Lens, 2002). This situation causes increa...

Medical Consent and Dependents Over the Age of 18

have declined given their knowledge of the fact that the pain their daughter was experiencing was not that atypical and was obviou...

Organizational Structures and Health Care Management

structure that supports whatever methods need to be used in the process. Requiring that one vice president oversee nursing in two...

HMO Effectiveness Speaker Notes

are able to take advantage of preventive measures (i.e., flu shots, cholesterol screening, diabetes screening), then it is reasona...

Managed Care Research and Ethical Issues

majority group in the United States. When considering other population groups, the disparities are even greater. The purpose her...

Planning to Resolve the Crisis in Health Care

suggest that his promise which never materialized, is not completely out of the question ("Health insurance " 1997). In order to ...

Failure of OmniCare

statement reported a negative worth of $8 million (Webster, 2002). For awhile, it appeared as though the Detroit Medical C...

Regulation of HMOs

(Sullivan, 2000). His regular doctor did not send him to the hospital, he sent Joseph to a nursing home with instructions to call ...

Parties Cannot Allege Malpractice if Insurance Refuses to Pay 'Justices Restrict Right to Sue HMO'

separate Texas lawsuits where insured parties had sued their HMO for failure to provide procedures or care recommended by their ph...

Contract Payment Alternatives and HMOs

same basic framework. If specific fees are determined contractually and the HMO remains solvent, then there is little risk associ...

Performance of HMOs

GNP had increased to 15 percent and had topped the $1 trillion mark for a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the count...

PPOs, HMOs, and Their Differences

In eighteen pages this report contrasts the differences between Preferred Provider Organizations and Health Maintenance Organizati...

Analysis of HMOs Problems

In twelve pages this paper analyzes the problems associated with Health Maintenance Organizations in an exploration of their ineff...

HMOs and Primary Care Physicians

In ten pages this paper discusses PCPs in terms of disadvantages associated with primary care physicians being used as gatekeepers...

Overview of HMOs

In five pages heath maintenance organizations are the focus of this overview that defines them, discusses their purpose, and means...

HMOs and the Adoption of Information Systems

database administrator fulfills a role on the operational side of information systems integration. In order to effectively integra...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Assessing Quit Smoking Plan

The positive health benefits of quitting begin within minutes of the last smoke, however, it is very hard to quit. This paper repo...