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the caregiver needs other information, information that is clinical "for patients or covered members from all segments of integrat...
the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...
century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...
to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...
as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...
cover the costs of catastrophic illness, but otherwise they maintained their own routine health care. The route of health care ac...
providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...
majority group in the United States. When considering other population groups, the disparities are even greater. The purpose her...
and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...
have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...
it actually created more problems than it solved? An Overview of Fragmentation Once upon a time, medicine was a fairly str...
Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...
staff or group model HMOs would provide all health care by the mid-1990s, but, in actuality, such HMOs have been declining in numb...
In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...
By the early 1930s, the issue had become politically viable and in 1938 "the struggle over control of health care spilled over int...
the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...
partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...
that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...
In fifteen pages this paper examines Medicare in an assessment of fee for services vs. managed care plans. Fifteen sources are ci...
In five pages this paper presents a physician interview sample in which he expresses the system changes he would implement with re...
physician should have more power than presently granted. II. Solutions In trying to come up with solutions, one should first...
In a paper consisting of five pages the key supporters, opponents and flaws of the bill are considered. There is also a letter ad...
In four pages this paper discusses how heath care quality has deteriorated as a result of the managed health care system. Four so...
In eight pages this paper examines the HMO model in a discussion of managed care and its impact upon the relationship between doct...
This paper examines how economic issues such as supply and demand, consumerism, and competition affect marketing strategies for th...
In twenty pages this research paper examines how the field of nursing has been impacted by managed care in a consideration of its ...
In twenty pages this paper examines mental health services as they have increasingly become a part of the managed care landscape. ...
In five pages this paper defines health care management and then considers changes and what adaptations management will have to ma...
In forty five pages this research study examines medical ethics in the managed care organization environment. Thirty sources are ...