Author : Maurice J. Penner
Publisher : Maurice Penner
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Capitation fees (Medical care)
ISBN : 9781567930511
This "from-the-trenches" guide can help you meet the challenges of forecasting a population's healthcare needs, building a provider panel, establishing financial incentives for providers, establishing information systems for managed care, negotiating managed care contracts, & managing utilization & quality.
Author : David I. Samuels
Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Capitation is defined as "a type of risk sharing reimbursement method whereby providers in a plan's network receive fixed periodic payments for health services rendered to plan members". This definition doesn't necessarily mean that hospitals need to lose money. This book provides the tools and techniques for minimizing the financial risk that is associated with this process while maintaining the bottom line.
Author : Peter Boland
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Capitation fees (Health Insurance)
ISBN : 9780965271707
Here's a challenge to conventional wisdom that will change the way you think about capitation. This hands-on resource is a collection of articles detailing the most advanced methods used by leading healthcare operational experts on how to provide high-quality care at less cost; manage financial risk more efficiently; design operational, clinical and information systems to meet the needs of patients, practitioners and managed care organizations; structure financial incentives to promote successful collaborations and make the transition from fee-for-service to risk-sharing arrangements. You'll find practical examples of how to build the trust necessary to create win-win solutions to problems that arise between competing yet interdependent interests of the various stakeholders. Edited by Peter Boland, PhD, and based on a "best practices" approach, each of the articles in the book illustrate compensation methodologies that have been successfully implemented with the support of physicians and hospitals.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 1997-02-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309056837
Market forces are driving a radical restructuring of health care delivery in the United States. At the same time, more and more people are living comparatively long lives with a variety of severe chronic health conditions. Many such people are concerned about the trend toward the creation of managed care systems because their need for frequent, often complex, medical services conflicts with managed care's desires to contain costs. The fear is that people with serious chronic disorders will be excluded from or underserved by the integrated health care delivery networks now emerging. Responding to a request from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, this book reflects the results of a workshop that focused on the following questions: Does the model of managed care or an integrated delivery system influence the types of interventions provided to patients with chronic conditions and the clinical and health status outcomes resulting from those interventions? If so, are these effects quantitatively and clinically significant, as compared to the effects that other variables (e.g., income, education, ethnicity) have on patient outcomes? If the type of health care delivery system appears to be related to patient care and outcomes, can specific organizational, financial, or other variables be identified that account for the relationships? If not, what type of research should be pursued to provide the information needed about the relationship between types of health care systems and the processes and outcomes of care provided to people with serious chronic conditions?
Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0698407180
A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.
Author : Allegra Kim
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Medical corporations
ISBN : 9781587032288
Author : Lawrence Casalino
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Capitation fees (Medical care)
ISBN :
Author : National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780309685061
The decade ahead will test the nation's nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways. Nurses live and work at the intersection of health, education, and communities. Nurses work in a wide array of settings and practice at a range of professional levels. They are often the first and most frequent line of contact with people of all backgrounds and experiences seeking care and they represent the largest of the health care professions. A nation cannot fully thrive until everyone - no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make - can live their healthiest possible life, and helping people live their healthiest life is and has always been the essential role of nurses. Nurses have a critical role to play in achieving the goal of health equity, but they need robust education, supportive work environments, and autonomy. Accordingly, at the request of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, on behalf of the National Academy of Medicine, an ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a study aimed at envisioning and charting a path forward for the nursing profession to help reduce inequities in people's ability to achieve their full health potential. The ultimate goal is the achievement of health equity in the United States built on strengthened nursing capacity and expertise. By leveraging these attributes, nursing will help to create and contribute comprehensively to equitable public health and health care systems that are designed to work for everyone. The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity explores how nurses can work to reduce health disparities and promote equity, while keeping costs at bay, utilizing technology, and maintaining patient and family-focused care into 2030. This work builds on the foundation set out by The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2011) report.
Author : fitzhugh Mullan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520938410
The general practitioner was once America's doctor. The GP delivered babies, removed gallbladders, and sat by the bedsides of the dying. But as the twentieth century progressed, the pattern of medical care in the United States changed dramatically. By the 1960s, the GP was almost extinct. The later part of the twentieth century, however, saw a rebirth of the idea of the GP in the form of primary care practitioners. In this engrossing collection of oral histories and provocative essays about the past and future of generalism in health care, Fitzhugh Mullan—a pediatrician, writer, and historian—argues that primary care is a fascinating, important, and still endangered calling. In conveying the personal voices of primary care practitioners, Mullan sheds light on the political and economic contradictions that confront American medicine. Mullan interviewed dozens of primary care practitioners—family physicians, internists, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants—asking them about their lives and their work. He explains how, during the last forty years, the primary care movement has emerged built on the principles of "big doctoring"--coordinated, comprehensive care over time. This book is essential reading for understanding core issues of the current health care dilemma. As our country struggles with managed care, market reforms, and cost containment strategies in medicine, Big Doctoring in America provides an engrossing and illuminating look at those in the trenches of the profession.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2000-12-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309183618
Clinical laboratory tests play an integral role in helping physicians diagnose and treat patients. New developments in laboratory technology offer the prospect of improvements in diagnosis and care, but will place an increased burden on the payment system. Medicare, the federal program providing coverage of health-care services for the elderly and disabled, is the largest payer of clinical laboratory services. Originally designed in the early 1980s, Medicare's payment policy methodology for outpatient laboratory services has not evolved to take into account technology, market, and regulatory changes, and is now outdated. This report examines the current Medicare payment methodology for outpatient clinical laboratory services in the context of environmental and technological trends, evaluates payment policy alternatives, and makes recommendations to improve the system.
