...Etienne E. Pracht The objective of this article is to understand the political motivations underlying Medicaid managed care reforms by examining the determinants of enrollment of beneficiaries in managed care plans in the fifty states. To highlight the role of the model variables, including...

...Virginia Gray; David Lowery; Erik K. Godwin In the 1990s, strong incentives for managed care organizations to control costs, once regarded as a fortuitous confluence of interests, came to be seen as antithetical to consumers' interests in quality of care. In response to this change in political...

...Thomas R. Oliver Policy Entrepreneurship in the Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of Managed Care and Managed Competition Thomas R. Oliver...

..., uncritical support for patient auton- omy and the ideal of the completely managed death have required their proponents to trivialize plausible concerns about coercion, depression, and self-destructive impulses among the dying or about death-dealing anger disguised as compassion among their caretakers...

... . Patients’ Rights in Managed Care: Exit, Voice, and Choice. New England Journal of Medicine 337 ( 3 ): 210 -216. Blendon , Robert J. , Mollyanne Brodie, John M. Benson, Drew E. Altman, Larry Levitt, Tina Hoff, and Larry Hugick. 1998 . Understanding the Managed Care Backlash. Health Affairs 17...

...Christopher J. Conover; Peter J. Rankin; Frank A. Sloan A comparative study was conducted in two neighboring states, Tennessee and North Carolina, to determine whether Medicaid managed care (implemented in Tennessee as TennCare) affected prenatal care, care patterns at labor-delivery, and birth...

...” of organizational politics, rather than treating them as constraints in an otherwise rational, managerial system. Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 The Politics of Management in Health Care: A British Perspective Stuart C. Haywood...

...Ae-Sook Kim; Edward Jennings This article utilizes a theoretical framework of policy innovation, diffusion, and reinvention to investigate the evolving nature of Medicaid managed care programs over time. By estimating two separate models, one for primary care case management (PCCM) and a second...

...David Chinitz; Victor G. Rodwin Abstract The field of health policy and management (HPAM) faces a gap between theory, policy, and practice. Despite decades of efforts at reforming health policy and health care systems, prominent analysts state that the health system is “stuck” and that models...

...Abraham B. Bergman, M.D. Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Guest Editorial Needed: Humanism in Health Program Managers Abraham B. Bergman, M.D., Children’s Orthopedic Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, Washington...

...Barnett R. Parker Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Special Bibliography From the Health and Health-Related Management Science/ Operations Research Literature Compiled by Barnett R. Parker, University of North...

...Arnold D. Kaluzny W. Richard Scott, Marin Ruef, Peter J. Mendel, and Carol A. Caronna. Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 442 pp. $58.00 cloth. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001...

... Economic Review 53 (5): 941 -973. Bergthold, L. 1990 . Purchasing Power in Health: Business, the State, and Health Care Politics . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Blendon, R., M. Brodie, J. Benson, D. Altman, L. Levitt, T. Hoff,and L. Hugick. 1998 . Understanding the Managed Care...

...Jeffrey M. Prottas; Eugenia Handler The implementation of state-sponsored voluntary case management programs for public assistance recipients creates provider and recipient recruiting problems that are unique to the state's economic environment, its political climate, its historic relationship...

... that tools are available to enable sponsors (active collective agents on the demand side who contract with health plans to structure and manage competition) to use competition to achieve a reasonable degree of efficiency and equity for their sponsored populations. All this implies a more complex, dynamic...

...Donald W. Light Diana Chapman Walsh, Corporate Physicians: Between Medicine and Management (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987), 267 pp., $30.00 paper Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 References Bosk , C. 1979 . Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical...

...Frank S. Bloch Jerry L. Mashaw, Bureaucratic Justice: Managing Social Security Disability Claims (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983), 238 pp., $25.00 Copyright © 1985 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1985 Jerry L. Mashaw...

...Joseph White Managing the Right Premium Joseph White The Brookings Institution The Clinton administration’s proposal seeks to join two concepts, man- aged competition and a global budget...

... of society. Meredith Minkler, University of California, Berkeley Susan Bartlett Foote. Managing the Medial Arms Race: Innova- tion and Public Policy in the Medical Device Industry. Berkeley: Uni- versity of California Press, 1992. 299 pp. $35.00 cloth. The great American...

...Karl Kronebusch; Mark Schlesinger; Tracey Thomas While the states engaged in an extended period of adopting and revising laws regulating managed care during the 1990s, there has been to date only limited empirical assessment of the impacts of these laws. For this analysis, we constructed a data set...