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Customer-directed healthcare reform with episode pricing / [edited by] Douglas Emery.
Van Pelt Library RA413.5.U5 C89 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Managed care plans (Medical care)--Economic aspects--United States.
- Managed care plans (Medical care).
- Health insurance--Economic aspects--United States.
- Health insurance.
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Health insurance--Economic aspects.
- Managed care plans (Medical care)--Economic aspects.
- United States.
- Medical fees--United States.
- Medical fees.
- Insurance, Health--economics.
- Episode of Care.
- Fees and Charges.
- Health Care Reform.
- Health Expenditures.
- Managed Care Programs.
- Medical Subjects:
- Insurance, Health--economics.
- Episode of Care.
- Fees and Charges.
- Health Care Reform.
- Health Expenditures.
- Managed Care Programs.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Mason, Ohio : Thomson, [2006]
- Summary:
- Learn the ins and outs of modern healthcare reform with CUSTOMER-DIRECTED HEALTHCARE REFORM! Building upon the strengths of managed care, this management text offers a refreshing approach for the future of healthcare. With discussion of reforms that will bring a far greater rationalization of our economic healthcare assets, it is an excellent reference for healthcare executives and managers, government officials, benefits managers, HR directors, and everyone with a vested interest in modern healthcare reform.
- Contents:
- The economics of episode contracting
- What is an episode of care?
- What is a minimalist recipe for accelerated reengineering of our delivery systems?
- Focused factories
- for the healthcare industry?
- Episodes of care: a successful model
- Improving the efficiency of inpatient care in the medicare program using global payments and physician incentives
- Unleashing the market: next generation networks for consumer driven health care
- Creating information systems to support effective, efficient health care
- The employer's role in realigning risks and incentives
- Program review of past and existing global payment programs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0324303289
- OCLC:
- 61692719
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