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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...

HMOs and Price Reduction

In nine pages this paper discusses how HMO providers attempt to slash costs for health care goods and services. Six sources are c...

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...

Insurance Companies, Health Professionals, and HMO

In ten pages this paper examines the issues involving health care professionals and insurance companies as they relate to HMO and ...

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...

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...

Failure of OmniCare

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Overview of HMOs

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

Analysis of HMOs Problems

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

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...

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...

Government Regulations And American Cinema

the Code and ended with its demise" (Doherty, 1999, p. 1). While some hollered censorship, others countered those conjectures by...

Environment Management in the UK

capita tend to have higher living standards. However, this can be misleading. GDP does not equate to financial well-being or acces...

The Three Strikes Law of California

Nine pages and eight sources. This paper provides an overview of the Three Strikes Statute in California. This paper considers t...

UK's Regulation of the TV Industry Present and Future

In five pages the regulation of the UK television industry currently and the future changes that will result from the consolidatio...

Changing Communications Through Regulation in Great Britain

In twelve pages a White Paper from 2000 that outlined Great Britain's proposed communications environmental changes is approached ...

Environmental Regulation Tools

In ten pages this paper discusses how environmental waste can be regulated by the EU through such tools as emissions trading, eco ...