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July 11, 2009 | Program Result Report
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care supported evaluations of replicable efforts by managed care organizations to integrate effective tobacco-cessation interventions into everyday clinical practice and the basic health care these organizations provide.
January 1, 2001 | 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 | 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 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Woodstock Theological Center, Washington, conducted two workshop series designed to provide ethical guidance to health care providers and managed care organizations.
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The United Cerebral Palsy Associations produced a draft report outlining the vulnerabilities of people with disabilities in a system of market-based managed care and devised a methodology for using outcomes as a measure of quality in managed care.
November 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1998 to 2000, staff at the American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly surveyed managed care plans on their current practices for resolving enrollee-plan disputes. The project emphasized disputes involving older people and recommended workable options for improving dispute resolution.
November 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Yale University School of Medicine examined how working people with chronic illnesses and functional limitations fare under various forms of prepaid managed health care plans.
February 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The National Association of School Nurses, Scarborough, Maine, examined the potential collaboration of managed care organizations and school health services.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Child Welfare League of America, Inc., researched, produced, and disseminated two practical guidebooks for those who care for and work on behalf of children in the foster care system.
August 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
In 1999, Ellen Brzytwa, R.N., M.S.N., M.P.H., reviewed the availability and content of managed care education for nurses.