Karyotyping miscarriage tissue in the managed care environment

Managing the occupational environment of managed care.

The emergence of managed care has resulted in a practice environment buffeted by rapid and sweeping changes. Shifts in philosophy and approach to payment for health care affect the nature of the service and the method of its delivery. The occupational adaptation frame of reference is used to illustrate the challenges imposed by the physical, social, and cultural components of the changing occup...

Clinical Guidelines in a Managed Care Environment

Communicating in a managed care environment.

MANAGED CARE IN MICHIGAN (lathy Smillie, president, Marketing Resources Unlimited, a healthcare marketing firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, received her managed care communications training when she served as director of sales and marketing for MCARE, the managed care organization owned by the University of Michigan (U-M), Ann Arbor. Of her work in managed care, Smillie points out that it "was one o...

Evaluation of the Infertile Couple in a Managed Care Environment

The Physician Labor Market in a Managed Care - Dominated Environment

The belief that doctors respond to declining demand by treating patients more aggressively has created skepticism about relying on market forces to restructure physician supply. We argue that even if the physician labor market is dysfunctional under fee-for-service incentives, it can perform better as managed care becomes dominant. Our model implies a nonlinear effect of managed care penetratio...