This Policy Brief examines behavioral health managed care contracting under separately administered State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP), i.e., programs that operate under the direct authority of Title XXI of the Social Security Act rather than as expansions of Medicaid. Most separate SCHIP programs buy managed care style health insurance for some or most of their enrolled childre...

A normative literature in political science and public administration calls for enhanced citizen participation in public decisions. However, this approach overlooks the environment that shapes administrative behavior, an oversight likely to hamper reform efforts targeted at achieving the normative goals of participation. The administrative perspective is important because public managers shape ...

This paper presents three clear examples of distinctive approaches to the study of public management, that is, in France, Germany and Italy, three countries with peculiar legalistic state traditions. Per country first a historical sketch of state and administration is given, then the administrative (public management) reforms are described, subsequently the state of art of administrative scienc...

Auctions are supposed to procure the best deal money can buy. Yet, practitioners who procure complex contracts by auction are well aware of some basic pitfalls. One concern is that winning bids may not reflect the quality of the bidder but strategic behavior like low-balling bids or underestimating costs. Such behavior may then lead to demands for contract renegotiation by the winning bidder th...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine contracts in public jurisdictions to compare academic theories related to outsourcing risks and risk management strategies to current practice in order to extend and refine theory concerning what risk management strategies can, or should, be included in outsourcing contracts. Design/methodology/approach – An automated content analysis tool is used to rigorou...

We sought to portray how collective bargaining contracts promote public health, beyond their known effect on individual, family, and community well-being. In November 2014, we created an abstraction tool to identify health-related elements in 16 union contracts from industries in the Pacific Northwest. After enumerating the contract-protected benefits and working conditions, we interviewed unio...

Risk theoretic analysis of capitation contracts suggests that capitation contracts are closely aligned to reinsurance contracts between insurance companies. Similarities and differences between these two forms of contractual instruments are reviewed, and several implications are discussed. Viewing capitation contracts as reinsurance contracts has implications that are incompatible with the over...

Uddanam nephropathy in India: a challenge for epidemiologists Praveen Gadde, Suresh Sanikommu, Ramesh Manumanthu & Anitha Akkaloori a Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vishnu Dental College, Bhimavaram, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India. b Department of Public Health Dentistry, Mallareddy Dental College for Women, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Correspondence to Praveen Gadde (em...