The Managed Care Contracting Handbook

The Managed Care Contracting Handbook
Author: Maria K. Todd
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1439866570

Managed care contracting is a process that frustrates even the best administrators. However, to ignore this complexity is to do so at your own expense. You don‘t necessarily need to bear the cost of overpriced legal advice, but you do need to know what questions to ask, what clauses to avoid, what contingencies to cover ... and when to ask a lawyer

Managed Care Contracting

Managed Care Contracting
Author: Reed Tinsley
Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This book provides thorough guidance on how to successfully negotiate both discounted fee-for-service and capitated managed care contracts and offers strategies designed to improve managed care contracting relationships.

Managed Care Contracting

Managed Care Contracting
Author: William A. Garofalo
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-01-06
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780787945817

Today's heath care marketplace is highly competitive, requiring managed care providers to contract with dozens of insurers to survive. Each of these contracts comes with their its unique terms and conditions-making the contracting process overwhelmingly complex and giving many health care executives major headaches. Written by three of the country's leading health care consultants and attorneys, Managed Care Contracting is the first book to offer executives with no legal background practical, step-by-step advice on how to create winning contracts between health care organizations, payers, and employers. In straightforward language, free of legalese and jargon, this much-needed resource demystifies managed care contracting and prescribes some critical advice for hospital and physician group practice executives. The authors present helpful guidelines for evaluating the various types of managed care contracts and explain the most significant terms and concepts executives are likely to encounter. A treasure trove of information for health care executives no matter what their experience level, Managed Care Contracting Examines how to develop a contracting strategy Reviews the fundamentals of negotiating the contract Frames the key steps in the contracting process Provides a managed care contract negotiations checklist Dissects sample hospital and physician contracts Analyzes the contract risk factors by the type of payment explores the implications of changing financial incentives Outlines the most up-to-date information in the regulatory environment Includes illustrative examples and helpful tables and chartsFor health care executives who are just beginning the complex contracting process and for the more experienced who require the most current information on the topic, Managed Care Contracting provides the knowledge and tools they need to succeed. "Managed Care Contracting is a very timely

The Managed Care Contracting Handbook

The Managed Care Contracting Handbook
Author: Maria K. Todd
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040081118

Managed care contracting is a process that frustrates even the best administrators. However, to ignore this complexity is to do so at your own expense. You don‘t necessarily need to bear the cost of overpriced legal advice, but you do need to know what questions to ask, what clauses to avoid, what contingencies to cover ... and when to ask a lawyer