...Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette “Selective pregnancy reduction” is a medical procedure used to reduce a multiple pregnancy, often a multiple pregnancy induced by in vitro fertilization or drug therapy. In such instances, healthy embryos are sacrificed in order to maximize the chances of survival of the...

...Jill A. Marsteller; Randall R. Bovbjerg; Len M. Nichols; Diana K. Verrilli As managed care has spread, so has legislation to force plans to contract with any willing provider (AWP) and give patients freedom of choice (FOC). Managed care organizations’ selective networks and provider integration...

...Mark S. Freeland; Sandra S. Hunt; Harold S. Luft There is a burgeoning interest in selective contracting for specialized hospital services based on volume, price, and quality. The systematic exclusion or inclusion of particular institutions has been extolled by some as an arrangement to reduce...

...Lynne R. Davidson This paper asserts that the selection of medical specialty by women physicians-in-training is a “choice by constraint.” Comparative data on men and women interns and residents are provided in order to document parameters of constraint in three separate areas: 1) subjective reasons...

...), was used to study insurance plan selection when multiple fee-for-service options as well as HMOs are available. There is evidence of biased selection of health risks in the FEHBP, yet historically the program has exhibited considerable stability. The stability may be attributable partly to control...

.../0509/22205.html . USA Today/Gallup Poll . 2009 . Swine Flu (USAIPOUSA2009-TR0505) . May 5 . Red State, Blue State, Flu State: Media Self-­Selection and Partisan Gaps in Swine Flu Vaccinations Matthew...

...Karen J. Merrikin; Thomas D. Overcast Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination against the handicapped in any program receiving federal funds. With its implementing regulations, Section 504 may well apply to the selection of patients for medical treatments. This...

...William P. Brandon Marmor Theodore R. and Klein Rudolf . Politics, Health, and Health Care: Selected Essays . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2012 . xv + 573 pp. $95.00 cloth. Copyright © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 The British philosopher Michael Oakeshott...

...Mark Pauly; Sean Nicholson Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Jackson-Beeck , Marilyn , and Joel Kleinman. 1983 . Evidence for Self-Selection among Health Maintenance Organization Enrollees. Journal of the American Medical Association 250 ( November ): 2826 -2829...

... the claims process was well targeted, thelevel of claims making and receipt was low, with the ratio of successful claims to potentially compensable events being approximately 1:30. Comparison of social and clinical characteristics of the two data sets revealed a degree of selectivity. Compared with...

...David G. Warren This feature of the journal is intended to promote communication among readers by providing a selected listing of personal milestones and organizational changes, announcements of selected grants offered and awards made, a calendar of national and international meetings, titles of...

... prominent role. However, achieving accessible and affordable coverage in this market is a long-standing challenge, in large part due to the threat of adverse risk selection. New Jersey pursued comprehensive reforms beginning in the 1990s to achieve a stable, accessible, and affordable individual market. We...

...John F. Kilner In light of the growing prominence of an age criterion in patient selection, it is essential to scrutinize the ethical legitimacy of arguments being offered both for and against using age as a criterion. Accordingly, the present study first explores the primary justifications for an...

... into uncommunicative and unproductive rhetorical posturing. A sensible approach toward formulating national health policy requires that competing values be identified and discussed explicitly. This article will examine the effect that selection of different theoretical perspectives can have on the...

... to, quality of, and complementarity of health care delivery. Examples are selected from the experience of the United States and West European countries. Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Prepared for the Internationl Conference on “Changing National...

... limited number of pegs on a board as they select from a wide range of insurance options. Randomly distributed health events illustrate the consequences of insurance choices. In 1999-2000, the authors conducted fifty sessions of CHAT involving 592 residents of North Carolina. The exercise was rated highly...

.... Achieving a stable enrollment base is particularly hard because Medicaid eligibles have few incentives to enroll and once enrolled often lose their Medicaid eligibility. Traditional HMOs control the amount of services provided through physician selection, financial incentives on physicians, and monitoring...

... American use of nursing homes in 2000 took place in the South and West. Average nursing-home case-mix acuity for African Americans and Caucasians were essentially identical, suggesting that shifts in payment incentives have eliminated the selective admission of easy-care private-pay (predominantly...

... Arlington is for activists to pressure elected officials to select professional managers who see bikeways as crucial to the overall transportation system. Then it is important to formalize the government-citizen relationship through an advisory panel. Also, in Arlington, the incremental creation of biking...