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Regulating Managed Care: Theory, Practice, and Future Options
Stuart H. Altman
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Description for Regulating Managed Care: Theory, Practice, and Future Options
Hardback. From policy to practicality, this work examines the regulation of managed care. It provides background on the issue, summarizes key survey findings on how Americans feel about managed care, reviews what areas are thought to need regulation, and examines the effect of proposed regulation. Num Pages: 400 pages, index. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 625.
What should be government's role in a market-oriented health caresystem?
What's the appropriate amount of regulation?
Who should regulate-states, federal government, or marketforces?
What role do the courts play in this regulation?
Are there existing models that might guide leaders in designing aneffective regulatory structure?
Welcome to the great managed care debate. In Regulating ManagedCare, twenty-six of the nation's leading health policy experts givehealth care administrators, clinicians, and policy makers insightinto the issues behind this critical exchange and provide leaderswith a road map to assess ... Read more
What should be government's role in a market-oriented health caresystem?
What's the appropriate amount of regulation?
Who should regulate-states, federal government, or marketforces?
What role do the courts play in this regulation?
Are there existing models that might guide leaders in designing aneffective regulatory structure?
Welcome to the great managed care debate. In Regulating ManagedCare, twenty-six of the nation's leading health policy experts givehealth care administrators, clinicians, and policy makers insightinto the issues behind this critical exchange and provide leaderswith a road map to assess ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787947835
SKU
V9780787947835
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99-50
About Stuart H. Altman
STUART H. ALTMAN is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy and chair, Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change, Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University. He has held key health policy offices for Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. UWE E. REINHARDT is James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University. He ... Read more
Reviews for Regulating Managed Care: Theory, Practice, and Future Options
"This is a very useful collection of essays by some of the nation'smost influential health policy experts. Topics covered: the theoryof regulation, the ways in which the HMO industry does and does notfit the standard model, and consumer and insurance industryperspectives on regulation and practical implementation issues."(Bryan E. Dowd, University of Minnesota School of Public Health,Hospital & Health Networks, March ... Read more