An Introduction to the US Health Care SystemSpringer Publishing Company, 25/05/2007 - 328 من الصفحات Completely expanded and updated to account for the latest changes in the U.S. health care system, this best-selling text remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the domestic health care system. Like its predecessors, it provides an accessible overview of the basic components of the system: healthcare personnel, hospitals and other institutions, the federal government, financing and payment mechanisms, and managed care. Finally, it provides an insightful look at the prospects for health care reform. Steven Jonas, a revered expert in public health, has enlisted his colleagues, Drs. Raymond and Karen Goldsteen, to add their expertise in public health and health policy and management to this outstanding volume. All students of health care administration and policy, as well as practicing healthcare professionals who simply want a relatively brief overview of the system, will find it useful. |
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Second are the commercial health insurance companies (see chapter 6), as well as those insurance companies providing professional liability (malpractice) coverage. Third are nursing homes for the aged and chronically ill, ...
... payments for care, in whole or in part, for the individual patient are covered by the company's policy, and that the care given is “appropriate” as a covered item of care, in terms of the insurance company's prewritten guidelines.
... are significantly uneven (Institute of Medicine, 2002; Wennberg et al., 1996, 1999). For many persons who live in the right geographic location, have the right health care cost coverage package, and have a disease or Introduction 23.
health care cost coverage package, and have a disease or condition on which American medicine has chosen to focus, American medicine is, as it is said, “the best in the world.” But for the person who lives in the wrong place (Wennberg ...
Prospects for expanding health insurance coverage. New England Journal of Medicine, 344(25), 847–852. Sharfstein, S. S., Stoline, A. M., & Koran, L. M. (2002). Mental health services. In A. R. Kovner & S. Jonas (Eds.), ...
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Chapter 3 Hospitals and Other Health Care Institutions | 63 |
Chapter 4 Primary and Ambulatory Care | 83 |
Chapter 5 Government and the Health Care System | 107 |
Chapter 6 Financing | 129 |
Chapter 7 Health Care System Performance | 167 |
Chapter 8 From Prepaid Group Medical Practice to Managed Care | 205 |
Chapter 9 Health Care Reform | 227 |
Epilogue | 263 |
List of Critical Reports on the US Health Care Delivery System 19272006 | 275 |
Sources of Data | 279 |
Glossary of Terms | 285 |
Index | 295 |