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Toward a 21st century health system : the contributions and promise of prepaid group practice / Alain C. Enthoven, Laura A. Tollen, editors ; foreword by William L. Roper.
Van Pelt Library RA413.5.U5 T69 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health maintenance organizations--United States.
- Health maintenance organizations.
- United States.
- Managed care plans (Medical care)--United States.
- Managed care plans (Medical care).
- Group Practice, Prepaid--trends.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Group Practice, Prepaid--economics.
- Health Policy.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Group Practice, Prepaid--trends.
- United States.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Group Practice, Prepaid--economics.
- Health Policy.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Physical Description:
- xlix, 284 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Toward a twenty-first century health system
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2004]
- Summary:
- "Toward a 21st Century Health System" is a collection of thoughtful analyses that explore a key element of the health care delivery system 3/4 physician group practices. Edited by policy experts Alain Enthoven and Laura Tollen, and written by a blue ribbon panel of health policy scholars and leaders including Stephen Shortell, Hal Luft, Donald Berwick, James Robinson, and Helen Darling, this resource addresses a variety of topics, including Organized delivery systems Quality of care in prepaid group practice versus other types of managed care The role of physician leadership and culture in group practice Prepaid group practice and the formation of national health policy
- This comprehensive resource also covers such topics as pharmacy benefit management, technology assessment, health services research, and employer purchasing of benefits- all as they relate to prepaid group practice.
- Contents:
- Prepaid groups and organized delivery systems: promise, performance, and potential / Stephen M. Shortell and Julie Schmittdiel
- Systems and results: the basis for quality care in prepaid group practice / Donald M. Berwick and Sachin H. Jain
- The clinical and economic performance of prepaid group practice / Kenneth H. Chuang, Harold S. Luft, and R. Adams Dudley
- Prepaid group practice and health care policy / Jon B. Christianson and George Avery
- Technology assessment, deployment, and implementation in prepaid group practice / David M. Eddy
- Managing the pharmacy benefit in prepaid group practice / William H. Campbell, Richard E. Johnson, and Sharon L. Levine
- Prepaid group practice and medical workforce policy / Jonathan P. Weiner
- Prepaid group practice and health care research / Raymond Fink and Merwyn R. Greenlick
- Physician leadership: "group responsibility" as key to accountability in medicine / Francis J. Crosson, Allan J. Weiland, and Robert A. Berenson
- The limits of prepaid group practice / James C. Robinson
- The relationship between prepaid group practice and the employer community / Helen Darling
- Open the markets and level the playing field / Alain C. Enthoven
- Epilogue: Prepaid group practice and computerized caregiver support tools / George C. Halvorson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0787973092
- OCLC:
- 53972571
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