Managed Care Education

Pediatric education and managed care: a literature review.

Managed care is becoming the dominant form of health care delivery and financing in the United States, necessitating changes in pediatric education. This transition is redefining the questions of what needs to be taught, who should be teaching it, where it should be taught, and how to pay for this education. We performed a literature review and examined reports from policy and professional grou...

Managed care: the strategic future for education in quality.

This paper discusses the needs for future education in quality assurance, assessment and improvement, particularly in relation to managed care. The pressures for increased education about quality are derived from different components of the health care system; e.g., regulatory and governmental agencies, purchasers of care, and competitors of health institutions. The content of future educatio...

Managed care : Practice

The results of coordinating and changing patterns of health care using managed care activities and organizations are reviewed in this article. Although utilization review and high-cost case management programs reduce the use of expensive services, incentives for providers of care, placing them at risk, are important for managing the intensity of health care. Managed care appears capable of redu...

Managed care: practice parameters.

The adoption of RBRVS has and will continue to dramatically alter the way in which physicians are paid. The debate over national health care continues to be a top item on the nation's agenda. Experiments on the predetermined rationing of health care are now being conducted. While these topics have stolen the headlines, another important movement has quietly gained great momentum. Louis Sullivan...

Considerations in managed care.