Download or read book Essentials of Managed Health Care written by Peter Reid Kongstvedt and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Insurance and Managed Care written by Peter R. Kongstvedt and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Insurance and Managed Care: What They Are and How They Work is a concise introduction to the workings of health insurance and managed care within the American health care system. Written in clear and accessible language, this text offers an historical overview of managed care before walking the reader through the organizational structures, concepts, and practices of the health insurance and managed care industry. The Fifth Edition is a thorough update that addresses the current status of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), including political pressures that have been partially successful in implementing changes. This new edition also explores the changes in provider payment models and medical management methodologies that can affect managed care plans and health insurer.
Download or read book Managing Managed Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-04-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managed care has produced dramatic changes in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse problems, known as behavioral health. Managing Managed Care offers an urgently needed assessment of managed care for behavioral health and a framework for purchasing, delivering, and ensuring the quality of behavioral health care. It presents the first objective analysis of the powerful multimillion-dollar accreditation industry and the key accrediting organizations. Managing Managed Care draws evidence-based conclusions about the effectiveness of behavioral health treatments and makes recommendations that address consumer protections, quality improvements, structure and financing, roles of public and private participants, inclusion of special populations, and ethical issues. The volume discusses trends in managed behavioral health care, highlighting the emerging role of the purchaser. The committee explores problems of overlap and fragmentation in the delivery of behavioral health care and discusses the issue of access, a special concern when private systems are restricted and public systems overburdened. Highly applicable to the larger health care system, this volume will be of particular interest to all stakeholders in behavioral healthâ€"federal and state policymakers, public and private purchasers, health care providers and administrators, consumers and consumer advocates, accrediting organizations, and health services researchers.
Download or read book Essentials of Managed Health Care written by Peter Reid Kongstvedt and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2007 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managed Care
Download or read book Essentials of Managed Health Care written by and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Kongstvedt provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of managed health care and health insurance. With a primary focus on the commercial sector, the book also addresses managed health care in Medicare, Medicaid, and military medical care. An historical overview and a discussion of taxonomy and functional differences between different forms of managed health care provide the framework for the operational aspects of the industry as well.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Managed Health Care written by Sophie M. Korczyk and published by . This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managed health care is one of the most confusing areas any consumer can deal with. Rules and regulations are constantly changing, providers are always merging and changing their offerings, and paperwork abounds. In easy-to-understand language, this book explains how to understand options, how to get treatment for chronic and long-term illnesses, how to get the most care for the least cost, and more.
Download or read book Managed Care written by Peter Kongstvedt and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of managed health care -- Types of managed care organizations and integrated health care delivery systems -- Network management and reimbursement -- Management of medical utilization and quality -- Internal operations -- Medicare and Medicaid -- Regulation and accreditation in managed care.
Download or read book The Managed Health Care Handbook written by Peter Reid Kongstvedt and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised and updated book provides a strategic and operational resource for use in planning and decision-making. The Handbook enables readers to fine-tune operation strategies by providing updates on critical managed care issues, insights to the complex managed care environment, and methods to gain and maintain cost-efficient, high quality health services. With 30 new chapters, it includes advice from managers in the field on how to succeed in every aspect of managed care including: quality management, claims and benefits administration, and managing patient demand. The Handbook is considered to be the standard resource for the managed care industry.
Download or read book The Well managed Healthcare Organization written by Kenneth Ray White and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Griffith's name appears first on the earlier ed.
Download or read book Managed Care What It Is and How It Works written by Peter R. Kongstvedt and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Third Edition of Managed Health Care: What It Is and How It Works is a concise introduction to the foundations of the American managed health care system. Written in clear and accessible language, this handy guide offers an historical overview of managed care and then walks the reader through the organizational structures, concepts, and practices of the managed care industry. This thorough revision has been completely updated with all the newest data on this dynamic industry and features all new sections on: pay for performance, consumer directed health plans, new approaches to care management, as well as advances in information technology.
Download or read book A Study Guide to Essentials of Managed Health Care written by Peter Reid Kongstvedt and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managed Care written by Peter Reid Kongstvedt and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A managed care expert overviews the history, structure, regulation, and issues of the complex US health care system. This second edition work was originally published by Aspen in 2002. Much of the information is distilled from another of the doctor's books, The Managed Care Handbook, 4th ed. An extensive glossary is included, but there are no refer
Download or read book Health Insurance and Managed Care written by Peter R. Kongstvedt and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Insurance and Managed Care: What They Are and How They Work (formerly titled Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works) is a concise introduction to the foundations of the American managed health care system. Written in clear and accessible language, this handy guide offers an historical overview of managed care and then walks the reader through the organizational structures, concepts, and practices of the managed care industry. The Fourth Edition is a thorough update that addresses the impact of the Affordable Care Act throughout the industry including: - New underwriting requirements - New marketing and sales channels - Limitations on sales, governance, and administrative (SG&A) costs and profits - New provider organizations such as Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCHMs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO’s) - New payment mechanisms such as shared savings with ACOs, and severity-adjusted diagnosis related groups - Changes to Medicare Advantage - Medicaid expansion and reliance on Medicaid managed care
Download or read book Readings in Managed Health Care written by Peter Reid Kongstvedt and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of readings is a companion To The Essentials of Managed Health Care, Second Edition. These articles, taken from four Aspen journals (Managed Care Quarterly, Health Care Management Review, Journal of Health Care Finance, and Quarterly Management in Health Care) provide indepth coverage of key issues and topics in managed care.
Download or read book The Economic Evolution of American Health Care written by David Dranove and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David Dranove, a leading health care economist, tackles these and other key questions in the first major economic and historical investigation of the field. Focusing on the doctor-patient relationship, he begins with the era of the independently practicing physician--epitomized by Marcus Welby, the beloved father figure/doctor in the 1960s television show of the same name--who disappeared with the growth of managed care. Dranove guides consumers in understanding the rapid developments of the health care industry and offers timely policy recommendations for reforming managed care as well as advice for patients making health care decisions. The book covers everything from start-up troubles with the first managed care organizations to attempts at government regulation to the mergers and quality control issues facing MCOs today. It also reflects on how difficult it is for patients to shop for medical care. Up until the 1970s, patients looked to autonomous physicians for recommendations on procedures and hospitals--a process that relied more on the patient's trust of the physician than on facts, and resulted in skyrocketing medical costs. Newly emerging MCOs have tried to solve the shopping problem by tracking the performance of care providers while obtaining discounts for their clients. Many observers accuse MCOs of caring more about cost than quality, and argue for government regulation. Dranove, however, believes that market forces can eventually achieve quality care and cost control. But first, MCOs must improve their ways of measuring provider performance, medical records must be made more complete and accessible (a task that need not compromise patient confidentiality), and patients must be willing to seek and act on information about the best care available. Dranove argues that patients can regain confidence in the medical system, and even come to trust MCOs, but they will need to rely on both their individual doctors and their own consumer awareness.
Download or read book Care Without Coverage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Making Managed Healthcare Work written by Peter Boland and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1993 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Managed Healthcare Work is your comprehensive guide to developing and implementing a new strategic approach to managed care that's practical, performance-based, and results-oriented. Learn how to prepare for, identify, pursue, negotiate and implement a new type of managed care arrangement that can accomplish the objective of delivering quality care at competitive prices.
