Readings in Managed Health Care

Readings in Managed Health Care
Author: Peter Reid Kongstvedt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This collection of readings is a companion To The Essentials of Managed Health Care, Second Edition. These articles, taken from four Aspen journals (Managed Care Quarterly, Health Care Management Review, Journal of Health Care Finance, and Quarterly Management in Health Care) provide indepth coverage of key issues and topics in managed care.

The Managed Health Care Handbook

The Managed Health Care Handbook
Author: Peter Reid Kongstvedt
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 1448
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780834217263

This thoroughly revised and updated book provides a strategic and operational resource for use in planning and decision-making. The Handbook enables readers to fine-tune operation strategies by providing updates on critical managed care issues, insights to the complex managed care environment, and methods to gain and maintain cost-efficient, high quality health services. With 30 new chapters, it includes advice from managers in the field on how to succeed in every aspect of managed care including: quality management, claims and benefits administration, and managing patient demand. The Handbook is considered to be the standard resource for the managed care industry.

Essential Readings in Nursing Managed Care

Essential Readings in Nursing Managed Care
Author: Susan Odegaard Turner
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780834213265

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Essentials of Managed Health Care

Essentials of Managed Health Care
Author:
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 715
Release: 2013
Genre: Managed care plans (Medical care)
ISBN: 1449604641

Peter Kongstvedt provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of managed health care and health insurance. With a primary focus on the commercial sector, the book also addresses managed health care in Medicare, Medicaid, and military medical care. An historical overview and a discussion of taxonomy and functional differences between different forms of managed health care provide the framework for the operational aspects of the industry as well.

Health Services Management

Health Services Management
Author: Anthony R. Kovner
Publisher: Health Administration Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781567930658

Managed Care Essentials

Managed Care Essentials
Author: Health Administration Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Managed care plans (Medical care)
ISBN: 9781567931129

Clarifies for executives many of the aspects of the growing method of delivering health care. The topics include developing structures for effective managed care contracting, understanding the backlash against managed care, anticipating the future, monitoring access, and managing information. There is no index.

Readings in American Health Care

Readings in American Health Care
Author: William G. Rothstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780299145309

Readings in American Health Care is an introduction to the historical development and current status of a wide variety of health care topics. The readings, written by historians, sociologists, economists, physicians, nurses, and public health researchers, are organized in sections: * Basic Concepts: mortality trends, concepts of disease, changes in medical therapy * Public Health: AIDS, cigarette smoking, preventive medicine, fluoridation * Health Care Professions: cardiology, pathology, women in medicine, nursing, podiatry, midwives * Health Care Organizations: hospitals, HMOs * Mental Illness * Financing Health Care * Medical Education * Issues: abortion, ethical issues, cancer control, prenatal care, home care, the pharmaceutical industry * Background Readings: American medicine from 1920 to midcentury. The readings were chosen especially for course use in history, sociology, public health, and related fields, but can also provide useful background reading for anyone interested or involved in American health care. Each selection includes an introduction, questions for the reader, and a bibliography. Scholars and students alike will find the book an invaluable resource.

Health Services Management

Health Services Management
Author:
Publisher: Health Administration Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2013
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781567936018

This tenth edition features twenty new cases that provide a unique overview of management and organizational behavior theory. The role of the health services manager is explained throughout the updated version of this classic textbook. Topics covered include: service-line management; healthcare reform; the medical home; accountable care organizations; community benefit; and CEO compensation. This book uses a three-pronged approach to examine the skills and experience health services managers need to succeed. Commentaries introduce the topic and provide the context for the readings and cases that follow. Readings bring fresh voices to the topic and provide evidence and timely examples. Cases give students practice in making managerial decisions in a wide variety of settings and situations. --

Contemporary Managed Care

Contemporary Managed Care
Author: Marsha R. Gold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Look inside the "black box" of managed care. This compilation provides a wealth of recent research & analysis on such topics as the evolution & shape of managed care, managed care & the market, managed care & public programs, & public policy. Also discusses possible future trends for managed care.