Managed Care and Changing Health Care Markets

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Release: 1998-01-01
Publisher: Aei Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 084474039X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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More and more Americans are enrolling in health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, and other managed-care programs. As managed care has expanded, its quality, cost-effectiveness, and restriction of individual choice have been increasingly called into question. Managed Care and Changing Health Care Markets analyzes the use of managed care by employers, the effects of managed care on providers, and the antitrust implications of the changing market structure.The research in this book clarifies a series of misconceptions about managed care. One popular misunderstanding is that managed care is not available to small groups; another is that managed care inevitably increases health care costs; a third common misunderstanding is that managed care squeezes the incomes of all physicians.This volume presents the latest empirical studies on the effects of market change on physicians, hospitals, and employers. Michael Morrisey offers some observations on the changing healt Download Managed Care and Changing Health Care Markets for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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