Author: United States. Social and Rehabilitation ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicaid
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Medicaid Eligibility Quality Control
Author: United States. Social and Rehabilitation ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicaid
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Essentials of Managed Health Care
Author: Peter Reid KongstvedtPublisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 9780763724962
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Managed Care Programs
Author: Momoka ItoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781604564891
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A physician usually manages a healthcare organisation and is responsible for a patient's primary needs especially medical care such as physical therapy or surgery. This book provides information concerning patients' well-beings as well as the effects of health care costs and how they reflect on the quality of care of healthcare facilities.
National Summary of State Medicaid Managed Care Programs
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Health Insurance and Managed Care
Author: Peter R. KongstvedtPublisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 128415209X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
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.
Managing Managed Care
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309175054
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
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.
Medicaid Managed Care
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
America's Health Care Safety Net
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030906497X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
America's Health Care Safety Net explains how competition and cost issues in today's health care marketplace are posing major challenges to continued access to care for America's poor and uninsured. At a time when policymakers and providers are urgently seeking guidance, the committee recommends concrete strategies for maintaining the viability of the safety netâ€"with innovative approaches to building public attention, developing better tools for tracking the problem, and designing effective interventions. This book examines the health care safety net from the perspectives of key providers and the populations they serve, including: Components of the safety netâ€"public hospitals, community clinics, local health departments, and federal and state programs. Mounting pressures on the systemâ€"rising numbers of uninsured patients, decline in Medicaid eligibility due to welfare reform, increasing health care access barriers for minority and immigrant populations, and more. Specific consequences for providers and their patients from the competitive, managed care environmentâ€"detailing the evolution and impact of Medicaid managed care. Key issues highlighted in four populationsâ€"children with special needs, people with serious mental illness, people with HIV/AIDS, and the homeless.
Remaking Medicaid
Author: Stephen DavidsonPublisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Written for health care executives, physicians, nurses, policymakers, health services researchers, and scholars, Remaking Medicaid offers a vision of the future to which conscientious policymakers and provider organizations, working together, can aspire.
Medicaid Managed Care
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description