The Instruction Manual for Designing Health Care Delivery in Battle Creek, Mich.
September 12, 2011 | Program Result Report
In Battle Creek, Mich., a health care system implements the Chronic Care Model throughout the community.
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Studying Maine's Pathways to Excellence Program
May 20, 2011 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
What Happens to Quality When Physicians are in Charge?
June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Between 1997 and 1998, investigators at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, carried out a study exploring whether physician participation in shaping corporate policy in for-profit managed care companies has a positive impact on patient care.
Report Outlines Vulnerabilities of Disabled People Under Managed Care
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.
Rochester Regional Health Commission Takes Collaborative Approach to Health Care
February 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
This project supported the formation of the Rochester Health Commission in 1996, which was designed to assist major health care stakeholders in Rochester (physicians, hospitals, insurers, business and industry, labor, government, and consumers) in improving the quality of and access to health care.
HMOs in California Decrease Use of Inpatient Care by Medicare Enrollees
August 22, 2008 | Program Result Report
The number of Medicare beneficiaries enrolling in managed care has increased since the passage of the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) and the establishment of Medicare Advantage Plans in 2003.
Survey Finds N.J. HMO Patients More Satisfied with Physical, Versus Behavioral, Health Care
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services surveyed patients who belong to New Jersey health maintenance organizations and use behavioral health services, to assess the use and quality of those services.
Strengthening the Patient-Provider Relationship in a Changing Health Care Environment
August 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
With the transition to managed care in the mid-1990s, new methods of delivering and financing health care posed challenges to the relationship between patients and their health care providers.
Pay-for-Quality Concept Rewards Physicians, Hospitals for Providing Quality Health Care
October 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Four organizations planned projects to demonstrate the use of financial incentives to reward providers for delivering high-quality health care.
How Well Do HMOs Stack Up Against Fee-for-Service Plans?
March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Brandeis University contracted with two experts in the economics of health care to conduct a literature review and develop a paper for presentation at the Eighth Princeton Conference.