The Political Management of Managed Care
June 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Explaining Variations in State Health Maintenance Organization Regulations
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When Patients Say No (To Save Money)
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This legal analysis evaluates whether consumerism and mandated disclosure of information can provide a viable mechanism to improve health care quality and lower costs.
Designing High-Cost Medicine
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Inspired by social medicine, some progressive U.S. health reforms have paradoxically reinforced a business model of high-cost medical delivery that does not match social needs. The current capital crisis may expose the lack of sustainability of this model and open up new ideas and ways to build health care designed to meet people's health needs.
Investigators Highlight Critical Role of Delivery System in Health Reform
April 24, 2009 | Story
Expert group recommends significant changes in the organization and distribution of care.
A Quiet Revolution
March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
This paper considers law's impact on health system change. Federal courts and state regulators have remade the rules of the medical marketplace, restricting the methods available to managed care organizations to control costs. Legal conflict, howeve ...
Policy Entrepreneurship in the Social Transformation of American Medicine
October 1, 2004 | Journal Article
While reviewing Starr's 1992 book The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Oliver explored how managed care and market competition have come to occupy their current level of prominence in the American health care system. Oliver asserted that ...
A Population Health Framework for Setting National and State Health Goals
May 7, 2008 | Journal Article
This article proposes a population health guiding framework for national and state planning processes, including both broad overall goals as well as a prioritized set of policies and interventions aligned with the multiple determinants of health.
The Effect of Referral and Transfer Patients on Hospital Funding in a Capitated Health Care Delivery System
October 1, 2007 | Journal Article
The study was undertaken to determine whether patients referred to Veterans Affairs (VA)hospitals from outpatient settings or transferred to VA hospitals from other VA hospitals have costs associated with them that are not accounted for by risk-adju ...
High School and Careers Summit Looked at how to Prepare Youth for Careers in Health Care
September 18, 2009 | Program Result
Health Care Futures, the supporting organization of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh, hosted a summit of funders, educators, workforce development experts and employers on how to prepare youth for careers in the health care sector.
What Makes for Successful Health Care System Redesign? Team at Boston University's School of Public Health Identifies Five Critical Factors
August 27, 2009 | Program Result
A conceptual model of organizational transformation can help health care organizations achieve high levels of quality for patients while remaining profitable.