...David C. Colby; Thomas Rice; Jill Bernstein; Lyle Nelson Medicare's experience with balance billing provides valuable lessons for policy making for national or state health care reform. Medicare developed several policies to encourage physicians to become participating providers who accept Medicare...

...Elianne Riska Ellen S. More. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 340 pp. $49.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Drachman, Virginia G. 1984 . Hospital with a Heart...

.... Burgess M. A. Halsey N. A. . 2006 . Compulsory Vaccination and Conscientious or Philosophical Exemptions: Past, Present, and Future . Lancet 367 : 436 – 442 . Point-­Counterpoint Finding the Proper Balance between Freedom...

... coincide with far-reaching state interventions in determining provider fees. A new, more satisfactory balance between corporatism, etatism, and market mechanisms must still be found. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Algemene Rekenkamer [General Accounting Office]. 1990...

... Geriatrics Society 43 ( 3 ): 348 -353. Variation in State Spending for Long-Term Care: Factors Associated with More Balanced Systems Robert L. Kane...

.... Mechanic , D. 1997b . Muddling Through Elegantly: Finding the Proper Balance in Rationing. Health Affairs 16 ( 5 ): 83 -92. Mechanic , D. 1998a . The Functions and Limitations of Trust in the Provision of Medical Care. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 23 ( 4 ): 661 -686...

...Per Lægreid; Ståle Opedal; Inger Marie Stigen This essay focuses on the balance between governmental control and enterprise autonomy by examining the Norwegian hospital reform. We describe the enterprise model and give a description of the policy instruments that the government, as owner, has for...

..., balanced presentation of evidence. Reviewing the full spectrum of literature from the United States and abroad, we present a Constitutional medical-legal analysis of whether home birth with direct-entry midwives is in fact a safe alternative to physician-attended hospital births, and whether there is a...

... Approach. Health Services Research 38 : 1467 -1485. Balancing Regulatory Controls and Incentives: Toward Smarter and More Transparent Oversight in Long-Term Care Edward Alan Miller...

... bathhouses? The author argues that although the government has the power to close the baths in the name of public health, it should not do so without careful and conscious balancing against the privacy rights infringed upon by its actions. Balancing the tension between public health policy and individual...

... policy via the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. However, full implementation of risk adjustment was delayed due to clashes with the managed care industry over payment policy, concerns over perverse incentives, and problems of data burden. We review the history of risk adjustment leading up to the Balanced...

... solidarity still prevails among insured persons. It is argued that lasting political attempts to shift the balance between solidarity and self-reliance in favor of the latter could weaken this moral infrastructure of the welfare state and, as a consequence, the statutory health insurance system could lose...

..., to finance the training of young physicians also hangs in the balance. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 References American Academy of Actuaries. 1996 . Medicaid Managed Care: Savings, Access and Quality. Washington, DC: American Academy of Actuaries. American Hospital...

..., opposition, and roadblocks in the form of design standard policies. Work in trail development requires a team of many players, and it is necessary to balance their varied motives to accomplish a shared overall goal. Foresight through the master planning process is also a vital component of successful trail...

... national models. On balance, we argue that a resort to private finance is more likely to harm than to help publicly financed systems, although the effects will vary depending on the form of private finance. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Angus Reid. 2000 . Seventeen-Country Poll on Taxes...

...Karl Kronebusch; Brian Elbel The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 established federal grants to the states to create the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This presented the states with a number of implementation choices concerning administrative models for the new programs, as well as...

... uncertain. While overall benefits may outweigh costs in Texas, differing political and fiscal circumstances may alter the balance in other states considering private insurance arrangements. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 References Brecher , C. 1984 . Medicaid Comes to...

... patients for the sole purpose of protecting health care workers should be discouraged, since the protection of health care workers can already be accomplished through universal blood and bodily fluid precautions. In balancing the inconvenience caused by universal blood and bodily fluid precautions against...