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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... managed care companies (about 36% of the total), and (3) via direct out-of-pocket payment (about 14% of the total) (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005, Table 119). Government expenditures are for both services that it operates directly and ...
... managed care company and those that are independent. They house about 12% of the nonfederal, short-term hospital beds in the country (NCHS, 2004, Table 109). Fifth is the for-profit managed care sector (the MCOs), which has grown ...
... managed care is that private practicing physicians who formerly contracted directly with their patients are now in one sense becoming collectivized as well. As previously noted, under managed care, the service contract is between the ...
... managed care, a managed care organization (MCO), usually for-profit (Dudley & Luft, 2001; Fubini, 1996; Smits, 2002), contracts with patients, either directly or through their employers, to provide medical care. In the United States ...
... Managed care puts special strains on the administration and management of hospitals, although the problems raised by the for-profit and not-for-profit varieties are rather different. (See discussions in chapters 3, 6, and 8.) Planning ...
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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 |