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...Mina Silberberg Ann E. P. Dill. Managing to Care: Case Management and Service System Reform. New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 2001. 216 pp. $40.95 cloth;$20.95 paper. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Baker, F., and R. S. Weiss. 1984 . The Nature of Case Manager Support. Hospital...

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

...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...

... . 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...

...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...

...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...

... corporation upon physicians' medical practice in four owned hospitals. Findings indicated that HCA hospital managers were most directly influenced by the local competitive environment and their own personal agendas in responding to PPS incentives. Corporate influence actually softened payment system...

...Paul B. Ginsburg Alain C. Enthoven, Theory and Practice of Managed Competition in Health Care Finance (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1988), 162 pp., $64.00. Distributed in U.S. by Elsevier Science Publishing Co. Inc. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Reference Jones...

...Michael S. Sparer Nearly every state now encourages (or requires) its Medicaid beneficiaries to enroll in managed care. There is, however, extraordinary variation in every aspect of state managed care policy. In this article, I examine the managed care initiatives of two states, New York...

... populations. We discuss the constraints and opportunities that CHCs face in a health care system that is rapidly moving away from fee-for-service medical care toward a model of managed competition. We describe the role that the National Association of Community Health Centers has played in advocating for CHCs...

...Mark Schlesinger; Bradford Gray; Elizabeth Bradley As American medicine has been transformed by the growth of managed care, so too have questions about the appropriate role of nonprofit ownership in the health care system. The standards for community benefit that are increasingly applied...

...Colleen M. Grogan An Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)–Medicaid managed care policy consensus has emerged in the American states. Although there are two main organizational forms—primary care case management and risk-based capitation models—states are converging on the risk-based...

...Richard A. Culbertson This study compares the perspectives of eighteen managed care executives and twenty-four faculty practice executives on critical policy issues related to the managed care marketplace. Market sites studied in 1994 included four major metropolitan areas: Minneapolis–St. Paul...

... of Health Politics, Policy and Law 23 ( 1 ): 35 -52. Jacob , Julie A. 1998 . Task Force Seeks New Agency to Oversee California Managed Care. American Medical News , 12 January, p. 4. Jacobs , Alan. 1998 . Seeing Difference: Market Health Reform in Europe. Journal of Health Politics...

...Allen Buchanan Three ethical criticisms of managed care are often voiced: (1) by “skimming the cream” of the patient population, managed care organizations fail to discharge their obligations to improve access, or at least, to not worsen it; (2) managed care organizations engage in rationing...

...Ezekiel J. Emanuel; Lee Goldman The public is very suspicious and fearful that managed care threatens their health because of its interest in reducing costs. Because physicians’ decisions control 75 percent of all health care spending, managed care organizations are focusing their cost-cutting...

... that the user fee reform has helped politicians manage delegation and reduce delay in new-drug review. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Bakke, O. M., M. Manocchia, F. de Abajo, K. Kaitin, and L. Lasagna. 1995 . Drug Safety Discontinuations in the U.K., the U.S. and Spain from 1974–1993...

...Ellen Waldman Peter D. Jacobson. Strangers in the Night: Law and Medicine in the Managed Care Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 296 pp.$36.00 cloth. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Bloche, M. Gregg, and David M. Studdert. 2004 . A Quiet Revolution: Law as an Agent...

...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...