[PDF] Managed Care And Monopoly Power eBook

Author : Deborah HAAS-WILSON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674038118

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As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase in health care costs is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals, as the health care sector undergoes reorganization and consolidation. There are two tools to limit the growth of monopoly power: government regulation and antitrust policy. In this timely book, Deborah Haas-Wilson argues that enforcement of the antitrust laws is the tool of choice in most cases. Focusing on the economic concepts necessary to the enforcement of the antitrust laws in health care markets, Haas-Wilson provides a useful roadmap for guiding the future of these markets.

Author : Michael A. Morrisey
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This volume analyzes the use of managed care by employers, the effects of managed care on providers, and antitrust implications of the changing market structure. It offers some observations on the changing American health- care market and the implications of these changes on health policy issues.

Author : Carl F. Ameringer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2008-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520254805

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Along the way, he explores questions about the acquisition, control, and loss of political and economic power in a book that provides an essential perspective on the politics and law behind health policy in the United States."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Frank W. Musgrave
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317457250

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Designed as a primary text for courses in health care economics and policy analysis, this comprehensive work places the issues and economic analysis of the health care industry in the context of market forces driving the industry, including negotiated markets, managed care, and the growing influence of oligopolies. Written in accessible prose, without the aid of technical jargon and mathematical formulations, the content is rich with applicable, understandable economic concepts and analysis, and examples of market failure and government involvement. Some of the major policy issues covered are drug pricing, Medicare and Medicaid reform, the medically uninsured, for-profit hospital monopoly price power, managed care competitive pricing, and new negotiated markets. The relevant economic concepts employed in the text include price elasticity of demand/supply, market structure from competitive to oligopolistic markets, monopoly pricing power, measures of health care inflation and the biases of the CPI, demand and supply factors, inverse relationship of present health care expenditures as a percentage of GDP, measures/concepts of efficiency, and the role of government in a market era.

Author : John Eugene Billi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0472023721

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Representatives of industry, government, caregivers, and consumers join scholars and policy analysts in comparing market forces to regulation as potential means for righting what is wrong with managed care. The contributors that John E. Billi and Gail B. Agrawal have gathered here quickly move the healthcare debate beyond the classroom, think tank, and statehouse to the boardroom and examining room. Some argue strongly that the solution is to be found in the democratic process and government intervention, while others maintain that only market forces in a competitive environment can respond quickly to the needs of consumers and purchasers alike. The contributors' diverse opinions about the oversight of managed care reflect an enduring divide, one that will affect how society ultimately resolves questions about the inevitable tradeoffs among health-care quality, cost, and access in an environment of limited resources. The Challenge of Regulating Managed Care will appeal to policymakers, those in the medical field, and all readers interested in the American experience with managed care. John E. Billi is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Education; Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, University of Michigan Medical School; and Associate Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Michigan. Gail B. Agrawal is Associate Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Author : Jack Glaser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
ISBN : 9781556129599

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Glaser and Hamel offer readers an opportunity to step back from the ethical issues connected with modern health care and reflect on what we are doing, how we are doing it, and what impact our actions (and omissions) are having on the common good. While offering a new ethical paradigm that takes into account the three realms of ethical complexity (societal issues, institutional issues, and individual issues), this book offers articles for reflection and self-examination on various aspects of managed care, taking into account specific issues such as rationing, financial incentives, and full disclosure.

Author : Aspen Health Law Center
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : 9780834212275

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Antitrust laws touch upon a wide range of conduct and business relationships in the delivery of health care services, and the issues that should be of concern to health care organizations are described. Health Care Antitrust provides practical overviews of the principal legal issues relating to health care antitrust, as well as a general understanding of antitrust analysis as applied to contractual relationships and business strategies that present antitrust risks in a managed care environment.