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HMOs and Health Care in the United States

In eight pages this paper discusses America's managed health care delivery systems in an overview of HMOs and their negative perce...

New York's HMOs and Managed Health Care

In fourteen pages this paper presents an overview of managed health care and then focuses upon legal, staffing, and financial cons...

PPOs v. HMOs

an employer. Under the HMO system the traditional fee-for-service setup of medicine in which a doctor is paid for each patient vis...

Senior Citizens and Healthcare Issues

In eight pages such healthcare issues as managed care, health rationing, improved medical technology, and increased life expectanc...

Dilemmas and Issues Facing Managed Care Workers

In six pages this paper discusses problems including ethics that are confronting managed care workers and what is being proposed t...

The life and work of Charlotte Gilman

A paper which discusses the life, work and theories of the writer Charlotte Gilman, and looks specifically at the role of feminism...

Managed Care and Medical Ethics

In forty five pages this research study examines medical ethics in the managed care organization environment. Thirty sources are ...

Promotion of Good in TV Talk Shows

In five pages this research paper discusses how TV talk shows promote public awareness of such issues as higher education, career ...

Nursing Profession and Managed Care

In twenty pages this research paper examines how the field of nursing has been impacted by managed care in a consideration of its ...

Employment Candidates and Psychological Testing

In five pages this paper discusses job application processes and managed care organization psychological testing of prospective em...

Financial Statements: Helping To Evaluate A Hospital's Financial Viability

having done so. Performance measures in general help to provide a composite of the respective hospitals financial viability, howe...

Case Management and Managed Care

the caregiver needs other information, information that is clinical "for patients or covered members from all segments of integrat...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

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...

U.S. DentalCare and a Program of Managed Care

and Types of Patients Treatment Type Daily Total Annual Total Age Group Perio Oper Prosth Endo Income Income 20 - 30 2 1 1 0 808...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

Early Childhood Education Professionals and an Administrative Training Literature Review

in the "people" business. Nothing could be further from the truth or more damaging to the organization. Managing non-profit and se...

Managed Care Organizations and Psychological Services

In twenty pages this paper examines mental health services as they have increasingly become a part of the managed care landscape. ...

The Use of a Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Health Care Industry

defined as the indicator of positive or negative cost effectiveness (Russell et al, 1996). The problems that stem from this proc...

Problems of Managers Regarding Managed Care

By the early 1930s, the issue had become politically viable and in 1938 "the struggle over control of health care spilled over int...

Economics and Health Care

can add to scarcity, such as time and income (Schenk, 2004). Furthermore, resources are limited, such as manpower, machinery and n...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

History and Implications of Medicare's Managed Care

cover the costs of catastrophic illness, but otherwise they maintained their own routine health care. The route of health care ac...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

HMOs and The Evolution of Managed Care

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

The Development of Healthcare Financing in the US

millennia ago, it is the first recorded use of pooled payment systems to proved healthcare. There are many examples of similar soc...

Nursing Relevance of Jean Watson's Theory of Caring

phenomenological, existential, and qualitative components (Cohen, 1991). These combine to create a theory that addresses the pers...

Medical Practice: How Insurance Changed the Industry

a great deal throughout the 20th century. As the quality of care increased, patients began living longer, and the focus of medicin...