Other countries favor more regulatory strategies, such as all-payer rate setting for hospitals and physicians in Germany, and single-payer systems in France and Canada. New data show that the United States continues to spend far more than its Western allies on healthcare—and with lcss-than-universal coverage (George J. Schicber, Jean-Pierre Poullier, and Leslie M. Grccnwald, "Health Spending, D...

States that contract with managed care plans must demonstrate to a variety of stakeholders, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), that the state Medicaid agency is appropriately overseeing the plans. This includes monitoring enrollees’ access to care as well as the quality and cost of services. However, there are no recognized standards for what constitutes sufficient mo...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of different forms of Medicaid managed care (MMC) delivery on racial and ethnic disparities in utilization. DATA SOURCE Longitudinal, administrative data on 101,649 children in Kentucky continuously enrolled in Medicaid between January 1997 and June 1999. Outcomes considered are monthly professional, outpatient, and inpatient utilization. STUDY DESIGN We app...

Construction companies are sometimes required to implement changes at business level related to management, technology, people and cultural issues as well as handling many changes at project level. Changes in projects, most of which are related to design, are inevitable even if there had been detailed studies during the design development, and prior to the construction stage. The changes need t...

• Climate warming and droughts impact growth in central European oak forests. Growth shifts old-growth managed Quercus petraea declining trees are identified. sensitivity forests is higher than Past use legacies stand structure drive sensitivity. Managed more vulnerable under forecasted climate-warming. warming-related drought could become a major driver of large-scale forest dieback. However, ...

Modern enterprises rely on a distributed IT infrastructure to execute their business processes, adopting Service Oriented Architectures in order to improve the flexibility and ease of adaptation of their functions. Nowadays this is a vital characteristic, as the increased competition forces companies to continuously evolve and adapt. SOA applications must be supported by management and deployme...

The huge increase in the number of hotels has led to stiff competition. In past, competition generally emphasized quality hotel services and facilities, but now it is also necessary improve ability manage efficiently. Covid pandemic forced management think work hard revenue reduce costs without reducing service guests who stay overnight. Hotels that are managed efficiently will be able win Ther...

European railways have been reorganized to allow for market competition. Thus, train services vertically separated from infrastructure management which allows several operators compete. Different ways emerged vertical separation, capacity allocation and track access charges. This paper reviews important deregulation aspects a number of countries. The study compares how competition has introduce...

Copyright© 2005, Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. All rights reserved. Author Efforts to provide optimal care while controlling overall costs have led multiple health care disciplines to invest in outcomes evaluation and monitoring. The comparison of outcomes to internal and external measures is known as benchmarking. Benchmarking, a well-known business tool, is a term used to describe ongoing...

There is one disturbing similarity between the two very dissimilar hospitals. In both cases industrial relations have been complicated and embittered by a degree of interunion competition that seems to have left management virtually powerless to effect improvements in the departments and sections concerned. _011|Rainhill is a 1550-bedded psychiatric hospital in the St Helens and Knowsley AHA, m...