[PDF] Managed Competition In Health Care eBook

Author : A.C. Enthoven
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 148329272X

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These lectures review the research and experience on the subject of health care economy. The author also sets down a moderately rigorous statement of the economic concepts underlying the kind of competition that he regards as the most promising way to achieve a reasonable degree of equity and efficiency in health care. The first lecture is on the public policy goals of health care financing and delivery and discusses efficiency in health care. The second presents an economic analysis of the systems for organizing and financing medical care systems in the United States. The third lecture is about ``managed competition'', and the fourth reviews American experience with efforts to convert from the traditional system to a competitive system.The book is addressed primarily to economists, health policy makers and health services researchers. It explains how market forces may be managed in pursuit of equity and efficiency in health care. It addresses systematically many of the causes of market failure and proposes a strategy (``managed competition'') for overcoming them. It should be of interest to policy makers in any country interested in incentives for more efficient health care delivery. It should also be very useful supplemental reading for courses in health care economics.

Author : Michael E. Porter
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2006-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1422133362

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The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums—not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets. In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Teisberg reveal the underlying—and largely overlooked—causes of the problem, and provide a powerful prescription for change. The authors argue that competition currently takes place at the wrong level—among health plans, networks, and hospitals—rather than where it matters most, in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of specific health conditions. Participants in the system accumulate bargaining power and shift costs in a zero-sum competition, rather than creating value for patients. Based on an exhaustive study of the U.S. health care system, Redefining Health Care lays out a breakthrough framework for redefining the way competition in health care delivery takes place—and unleashing stunning improvements in quality and efficiency. With specific recommendations for hospitals, doctors, health plans, employers, and policy makers, this book shows how to move health care toward positive-sum competition that delivers lasting benefits for all.

Author : Lenny Seigel
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 1993-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781568064215

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Examines the potential of the managed competition approach to reduce the level & rate of growth of national health expenditures, & the specific features of managed competition that could generate significant savings.

Author : John D. Wilkerson
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN :

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This edited collection--written by the movers and shakers in the industry--provides a "big picture" look at the rapidly changing health care environment. The book explores the important issues affecting the move to a managed care such as measuring and monitoring quality, mergers, the physician-patient relations, , and reconfiguring the work force.

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Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The Congress is considering a range of alternatives for reforming the health care system. This study, requested by the Subcommittee on Health of the House Committee on Ways and Means, examines the potential of the managed competition approach to reduce the level and rate of growth of national health expenditures, and the specific features of managed competition that could generate significant savings. In keeping with the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) mandate to provide objective and impartial analysis, this study contains no recommendations.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 1993-07
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
ISBN : 9780788100260

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Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309083435

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Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.

Author : Warren Greenberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822308935

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"Competition. Deregulation. Free market forces. The debate over competition in health care that raged in the 1970s brought with it a new economic jargon, a vocabulary of concepts and issues unheard of in hospitals a decade earlier. "Competition in health care has developed to a greater degree than most economists predicted ten years ago. That is the conclusion of Warren Greenberg in his introduction to Competition in the Health Care Sector: Ten Years Later, a retrospective of a 1977 Federal Trade Commission conference, which produced the landmark treatise Competition in the Health Care Sector: Past, Present, and Future. Seven of the ten original papers are reexamined; a chapter on the nursing home industry has been added. "As with the original volume, Greenberg predicts that the retrospective will become a critical element in the health care economic literature."--Hospitals

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 030946921X

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.