...Douglas A. Hastings The degree of confidentiality to be accorded data gathered and analyzed by Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) in the course of their medical peer review activities is a crucial and controversial issue in health policy. In late 1977, a consumer organization...

...Douglas A. Hastings Increasingly, medical peer-review organizations are entering into contracts with insurance companies and self-insured employers to conduct utilization reviews and quality-of-care assessments. Such private review activities raise new legal issues, requiring analysis of state law...

...Sherry Glied; Adam Sacarny Abstract This review critically evaluates perspectives on waste in the US health care sector. The conventional discussion of waste is often imprecise and blames factors outside the purview of the health care system. Taking an economic perspective, we propose...

.... For a variety of reasons, the methodology and procedures employed failed to reveal the adverse effects of Proposition 13 on health services. This paper deals with the actual and potential role of health systems agencies (HSAs) in monitoring such effects, commenting in public hearings on budget review...

...Deborah Stone Copyright © 1982 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1982 From the Book Review Editor In the great scheme of things, time goes too fast and we all read too slowly. Far be it from me to tamper with a great scheme; but, in the spirit...

...David G. Warren Copyright © 1983 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Review Essay The Coming of Age of Health Law: An Examination of Recent Textbooks When Emmanuel Hayt died earlier this year, the trumpet was sounded for the passing of an age.' Every...

...Ronald C. Lippincott Vanderbilt Law Review , Volume 34, No. 4, May 1981, “A Special Symposium: Market-Oriented Approaches to Achieving Health Policy Goals” Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 532 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

...Stephen Shmanske; Tina Stevens In this paper we present the results of an empirical study of Arizona's medical malpractice review panels. We compare insurance company claim files data from before and after the implementation of panels to analyze the effects of the panel system. The data indicate...

...David M. Frankford © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 JHPPL 25.3-05.BkRevs (565-612) 5/12/00 11:59 AM Page 565 Books: Review Symposium on Women’s Health Book Review Editor’s...

...William J. Moore; Karen Gutermuth; Etienne E. Pracht Aggregate pooled cross-sectional and time-series annual state data for 1985 to 1992 were used to estimate the systemwide effects of retrospective drug utilization review programs (Retro-DUR) on Medicaid drug and nondrug outcomes. The results...

...David M. Frankford © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.1-06 Book Review All 1/25/01 10:16 AM Page 119 Books: Review Symposium on The Politics of Medicare: A Thirty-Year Retrospective on Ted Marmor’s...

... with characteristics of the population, whether they reflect differences in access and need, or whether a substantial portion of the variation is associated with differences in the medical care system itself. This review discusses the methods used to define the areas, the dependent variables that have been studied...

...Danny Ermann Utilization review (UR) programs seek to determine whether specific services are medically necessary and whether they are delivered at an appropriate level of intensity and cost. Although UR programs have been operating for more than 40 years, they have changed dramatically during...

...David M. Frankford © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 JHPPL 25.2-04 Book Review 3/28/00 4:05 PM Page 377 Book Review Editor’s Introduction David M. Frankford The issues presented by euthanasia...

... of Chicago Press. JHPPL 26.3-08 Books 5/3/01 5:20 PM Page 635 Books: Review Symposium on Remembering Present and Future Institutions of Health Care Book Review Editor’s Introduction...

..., Britain,and Canada . New York: Oxford University Press. JHPPL 26.1-06 Book Review All 1/25/01 10:16 AM Page 119 Books: Review Symposium on The Politics of Medicare: A Thirty-Year Retrospective on Ted Marmor’s...

...Eliot Freidson © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Books: Review Symposium on Eliot Freidson’s Professionalism: The Third Logic Finding Soul in a “Medical Profession of One” The ideological core...

...Thomas R. Oliver In 1985, Congress established the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC) to help formulate changes in the system used by Medicare to pay for physician services. The recommendations of the PPRC and subsequent legislative action led to fundamental reform. As a new type...

... operations. This article reviews the literature on SSOPs. It considers whether SSOPs are effective mechanisms for reducing health care costs, how SSOPs affect outcomes, how physician errors affect the value of SSOPs, and what noncon-firmation rates and rates of surgery indicate about the appropriateness...

... Press 1996 Books A Double Review from Two Disciplines Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, and Theodore R. Marmor, eds. Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Heal of Populations. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994...