Download or read book HMO Enrollment in the United States written by Jessica S. Banthin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) presents estimates of the total number of people enrolled in HMO (health maintenance organization) plans for the first half of 1996."--Abstract.
Download or read book Politics and Health Care Organization written by Lawrence Brown and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among various health cost containment strategies proposed during the 1970s, none has held more sustained fascination than the health maintenance organization (HMO). For many years, policy analysts in search of market- and incentive-based alternatives to “command and control” regulation have argued that medical groups combining prepayment and group practice, and offering comprehensive medical services within a fixed budget, would hold down costs both by their own efficient operations and by the competitive pressures they would apply to the conventional systems. During the 1970s, three presidents and five Congresses worked to formulate and implement legislation to increase the HMO presence nationwide, with very modest results. Some observers concluded that but for the well-intended but counterproductive efforts of the federal government, HMOs might thrive. Indeed, the Reagan administration has called for an end to direct federal financial involvement in building HMOs—though it has also promised legislation to promote HMOs and a newly competitive health care system based on revamped financial incentives and reinvigorated markets. In this book, Lawrence D. Brown, a senior fellow in the Brookings Governmental Studies program, examines the interplay between politics and policy in the federal HMO development effort between 1970 and 1980. He argues that the basic explanation for the disappointments of the policy analysts and federal supporters of HMOs lies not in a political miscarriage but in the overambitious promises of the policy strategy itself. Tracing the poor fit between policy and politics revealed by federal efforts to translate the attractive HMO idea into a workable strategy, Brown concludes that the episode augurs poorly for the competitive reforms frequently offered as a nonregulatory solution to rising health care costs in the 1980s.
Download or read book Health Against Wealth written by George Anders and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "a must-read" by the AMA, this book reveals the problems within the HMO system that could cost people their lives. A "chilling portrait of the many ways in which HMOs can be hazardous to your health", says the "Cleveland Plain Dealer".
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of HMOs written by Jan Coombs and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing upon a wealth of research, Coombs compares HMOs throughout the nation with the one in Marshfield, which came as close as any HMO to realizing the ideal of early advocates. This book is a resource for specialists in the fields of health policy research and analysis, health care management, health law and politics, public health, and social and organizational history of medicine. It will also appeal to many readers who are disturbed by the current stae of America's health care system and are curious about its future."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book HMO Development written by Odin Waldemar Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employers HMOs and Dual Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industry and HMOs A Natural Alliance written by Richard H. Egdahl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth issue in the Industry and Health Care series takes a quick turn through unpredictable and only partially charted waters. The series as a whole has set out to explore the role of industry as a potential agent of change in the health care system, and to map the courses that may lead toward control of costs. One that looks possible is the effort now being made to infuse some competition into the health care industry through organized systems of care, known as HMOs. Health maintenance organizations, especially the fee-for-service variety known as IPAs (individual practice associations), have been a particular inter est of the Center for Industry and Health Care, where a national data base 'on IP A performance is being established with the aid of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Center's identity with HMOs, combined with its focus on industry and health care, has afforded us unusual access to nascent corporate thinking on the pros and cons of HMO sponsorship. We are grateful for these opportunities, and for the insights industry people have shared with us. This series draws heavily on that experience.
Download or read book The Insider s Guide to HMOs written by Alan Jeffrey Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practicing physician and insider offers a practical, concise guide to avoid getting lost in the healthcare shuffle.Within five years, nearly half of Americans will be insured by HMOs, which provide seemingly little choice about everything from your primary care physician to your options for more serious medical treatment As the mast radical transformation of American medicine in history takes place, HMO horror stories -- of interchangeable doctors, ineffective treatment, and services denied -- a becoming all too common.From the basic definitions and terms you need to know, to how to read your doctor, to when you may need legal help, The Insider's Guide to HMOs provides expert, dear advice on how to get the most out of the HMO system. Learn the difference between the various managed care plans available, how to get referrals to specialists inside and outside your HMO, how to evaluate the doctors in your system, what HMOs cover in an emergency, and how to get them to pay for the best available treatment for complicated or rare conditions.For everyone who has felt lost in the healthcare shuffle, The Insider's Guide to HMOs provides indispensable advice to reclaiming control of your medical care -- and getting back your peace of mind.Lively, well-argued and immensely practical. This book is packed with savvy advice about making the medical/insurance bureaucracy work for you. -- George Anders, author of Health Against Wealth: HMOs and the Breakdownof Medical Trust
Download or read book Determinants of HMO Success written by Peter D. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Questions Physicians are Asking about HMOs and the Answers written by Health Maintenance Organization Service (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HMO Development in Chicago written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managed Care Beware written by Harvey M. Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managed care is re-shaping medicine as we know it. Today, 60 million Americans receive their health care from HMOs. However, consumers learn to understand how to work with this system of health care coverage--knowing about its drawbacks as well as its advantages. Managed Care Beware offers five steps that will help HMO recipients get the most out of managed care.
Download or read book Are Fee for service Costs Increasing Faster Than HMO Costs written by Joseph P. Newhouse and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Managed Care written by William Scanlon and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HMOs Issues and Alternatives for Medicare and Medicaid written by Sidney Trieger and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Home Health written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Oversight of Medicare HMOs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
