|
Dementia services in managed care: Issues and trends
|
Over the past ten years, healthcare in the United States hs undergone rapid change. The growth of managed care health systems has been dramatic. In 1998, approximately 6.1 million Medicare recipients (16 percent) were enrolled in managed care plans, and in some states enrollment rates were much higher (HCFA, 1998). For example, California has more than 1.4 million people enrolled in some form of managed care, representing 39 percent of the state's elderly. The majority of these managed care plans now accept enrollees on a risk-contracted, capitated basis, with increasing numbers predicted to ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)
|
|
Managed care for the elderly: A threat or a promise?
; ...stand to gain-and lose-the most from managed care. In the 1990s, the nation's medical...their healthcare through some form of "managed care"that is, through a health plan that...than younger Americans participate in managed care, even here the numbers have grown dramatically...
|
|
Psychodynamics and managed care: The art of the impossible?
; ...psychodynamic psychotherapy under managed care is virtually impossible. Notwithstanding...the many adversities posed by managed care, there are ways to productively...psychodynamic psychotherapy under managed care using theory, practice applications...
|
|
Federal, state or other: public wants regulation of managed care despite cost: survey.
; Public apprehension over whether managed care will deliver care when it's most needed...of support for federal regulation of managed care plans, according to a survey released...National Survey of Americans' Views on Managed Care found that only 19% of the respondents...
|
|
Managed care has not had an adverse effect on drug makers.(Industry Overview)
; NEW YORK - Managed care has drastically altered the economics...Gianforcaro, IMS' marketing director for managed care services. Third-party sources now...scripts. But what is surprising is that managed care's focus on cost containment has not...
|
|
Managed Care Industry Faces Public Image Problem.(Originated from The Boston Globe)
; CHICAGO--Jul. 30--The managed care industry faces a conundrum: People say they dislike managed care even as they join health maintenance organizations...I wish I didn't have to use the words 'managed care,' said Dr. John Ludden of Harvard Pilgrim...
|
|
Evaluating managed care effectiveness: A societal perspective
; ...employment-based health care benefits, managed care has become the predominant framework...design. Plan options that emphasize managed care have been added to Medicare and Medicaid programs, making managed care the primary model for health financing...
|
|
Consumer-oriented managed care: Oxymoron or new direction?
; Introduction The article "Managed Care: The Next Generation" provides a fresh perspective on managed care, a field that started as a "calling...public need perspective on the concept of managed care and its potential in meeting demands...
|
|
Embattled and embittered or empowered and evolving: Nurse practitioner attitudes toward managed care
; ...nurse practitioners (NPs) toward managed care and to identify the sources of...interviews about the impact of managed care on their practice. Conclusions: The sources of NP negativity about managed care for many study participants lay...
|
|
Managed Care Surveys: Something to Talk About.
; ...than 60 million people have enrolled in managed care plans, and more than 10, million people...continue to sign up each year. Why? Because managed care organizations claim to control the rising...and -- right or wrong -- they blame managed care. Patient satisfaction surveys are the...
|
|
|
Who's regulating managed care?
; Laws targeting managed care companies have proliferated in recent...have singled out and taken aim at managed care. There is no doubt that the industry...more consumers have entered the managed care system and faced denials of or limitations...
|
For more facts and information,
see all results
