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July 11, 2009 | Program Result
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.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Minnesota investigated the usefulness of developing physician report cards to complement consumer report cards and other measures of the quality of managed care plans.
November 1, 2004 | Program Result
Between 1996 and 2003, researchers at the Rural Health Research Center at the University of Minnesota studied changes in the rural health system and produced and disseminated several publications describing those changes.
August 1, 2003 | Program Result
In this 2000–2001 project, Linda Bergthold, PhD, and researchers at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., surveyed health plan medical directors in 48 states about medical necessity decision making. The study provides input for policy-making at the state and national levels.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1996 to 1998, researchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham studied the behavior of managed care organizations (MCOs) in their contracting with hospitals. The study, based on eight years of data from Illinois, sought to shed light on why MCOs contract with particular hospitals and how stable these relationships are over time.
April 1, 2001 | Program Result
The Woodstock Theological Center, Washington, conducted two workshop series designed to provide ethical guidance to health care providers and managed care organizations.
September 1, 1998 | Program Result
The National Committee for Quality Assurance convened a work group of experts in performance measurement and information technology who examined research literature, surveyed health plan information system capabilities, and interviewed 60 experts in the field.
National Program
To invent, prove and diffuse innovations in systems of provider payments and nonfinancial incentives that will encourage and reward high-quality care.
National Program
Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC) is a national program dedicated to improving the quality of life among the 133-million Americans who suffer from diabetes, depression and other chronic conditions.
July 1, 2005 | Program Result
The State of Oregon Department of Human Resources evaluated the results of efforts by the Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon to implement the Oregon Tobacco Cessation Guidelines in the 14 managed care health plans contracting with the Oregon Health Plan.