Author : Peter Reid Kongstvedt
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : 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.
Author : Peter Reid Kongstvedt
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2001
Category : 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.
Author :
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2013
Category : 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.
Author : Anthony R. Kovner
Publisher : Health Administration Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781567930658
Author : William G. Rothstein
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 1995
Category : 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.
Author : Health Administration Press
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2000
Category : 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.
Author : Peter Reid Kongstvedt
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Managed Care Programs
ISBN : 9780763739836
Managed Care
Author :
Publisher : Health Administration Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2013
Category : 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. --
Author : Marsha R. Gold
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1998
Category : 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.
Author : Anthony R. Kovner
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Health facilities
ISBN :
This book examines the skills health services managers need today to succeed in a variety of settings. The format, which focuses on six core competencies, provides an excellent overview of the basics of health services management.
