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Medical Economy of the United States and the Impact of HMOs

The individual physician, or group of contracted physicians are, therefore, considered liable for the incurred costs of medical tr...

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...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

A Wireless Network for a Healthcare Organization

analysts may obtain much of the data in advance they may not be able to foresee of data required by management. The ability to acc...

HMOs and The Evolution of Managed Care

century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...

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...

Global Economy and Health Care

is the best product, [healthcare providers] will just use a cheaper product, and then if it doesnt work, theyll go to your product...

HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

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...

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 ...

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...

PPOs, HMOs, and Their Differences

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

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...

Analysis of HMOs Problems

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Different Health Plan Types

12 pages and 12 sources used. This paper provides an overview of an emerging system in providing health benefits by employers. T...

Nongovernmental Organizations and Their Influence

and the World Wildlife Fund. As well as influencing states and bring change or helping people the NGOs also may seek to influence ...