January 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, researchers at the University of Alabama studied the effect of any willing provider (AWP) and freedom of choice (FOC) laws on Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and employers.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1998, researchers at Stanford University looked at how managed care penetration in given geographic areas affected the diffusion and use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a technology that allows physicians to obtain very clear pictures of patients' internal organs and internal structures without invasive procedures.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
From 1992 to 1995, researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, Mich., assessed the overall effects of preferred provider organizations (PPOs) on hospital, outpatient, physician, and total health care costs and utilization. They compared costs of care in the PPOs with those of managed indemnity plans.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1998, People-to-People Health Foundation, Millwood, Va., examined the management tools and strategies that managed care organizations use to influence technologies used by primary care physicians — including how to prescribe drugs and make referrals to specialists.
April 6, 2007
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Program Result Report
The Alameda Alliance for Health, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization serving the people of Alameda County, established two new health insurance programs.
December 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Rochester hypothesized that managed care penetration may help alleviate disparities in health care access and quality between different socioeconomic and racial/ethnic populations.
October 1, 2005
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Program Result Report
Mark Duggan, PhD, at the University of Maryland evaluated how county-level mandates requiring most Medicaid recipients to enroll in a managed care plan affected government spending and health outcomes in 20 California counties.
February 11, 2009
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Program Result Report
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is one of the world's largest local public health agencies, with approximately 6,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $1.5 billion.
February 11, 2009
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Program Result Report
The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department used its InformationLinks grant to strengthen its ties to the Indigent Care Collaboration (ICC), an alliance of safety net providers serving a three-county region of central Texas.
February 11, 2009
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Program Result Report
The County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency is the public health department in this California county of 264,000 residents that blends urban, rural and agricultural communities.
