Research Catalog

Title

Managed care, outcomes, and quality : a practical guide / edited by Steven F. Isenberg ; with forewords by Uwe Reinhardt and Nancy Snyderman.

Publication

New York : Thieme, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Isenberg, Steven F.

Description

xxii, 343 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Subject

• Managed Care Programs
• Managed care plans (Medical care)
• Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
• Outcome assessment (Medical care)
• Practice Management, Medical
• Practice Patterns, Physicians'
• Quality of Health Care
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Nancy Snyderman -- Foreword / Uwe Reinhardt -- I. The Essentials of Managed Care and Capitation. 1. Capitation / Art Wilmes. 2. Reimbursement Systems and Managed Care / Cheryl Toth and Lee Eisenberg. 3. Referral Guidelines / Michael S. Benninger. 4. Negotiating Managed Care Contracts / T. Forcht Dagi. 5. The Legal Issues of Managed Care Contracts / Tom Neal. 6. Understanding Profiling / Susan Bellile. 7. Ethical Challenges of Managed Care / Carl A. Patow and Ruth D. Gaare -- II. Utilizing Outcomes in a Managed Care Environment. 8. Outcomes Research: Where We Have Been, Where We Need to Go / Michael G. Stewart. 9. Meaningful Outcomes Research / Richard M. Rosenfeld. 10. Improving Health Care: Measuring Outcomes and Implementing Change / Eugene C. Nelson, Julie J. Mohr and Paul B. Batalden [et al.]. 11. Project Solo/Physicians' Information Exchange: Organizing Physicians Around Quality / Steven F. Isenberg --
• III. Quality in the Front and the Back Office. 12. Improving Office Efficiency in a Managed Care Environment / Cheryl Toth. 13. Staffing Requirements in Managed Care / Cheryl Toth. 14. Surviving and Thriving as an Independent Practitioner: The Search for Continuous Quality Improvement / Steven F. Isenberg. 15. Information Management in Managed Care and Capitation / Vinson J. Hudson. 16. Malpractice Issues / Thomas M. Kidder -- IV. The Physician's Response to Managed Care. 17. Network Mergers and IPAs: The Legal Issues / Matthew L. Howard. 18. Physician Organizations / James Unland. 19. Single-Specialty Networks: The Mature Network / Gary Stone. 20. Single-Specialty Networks: Initial Stages / Michael D. Weiss. 21. Mergers and Acquisitions / T. Forcht Dagi and Jay Mayes. 22. Evolving a Single Specialty Into a Multispecialty Network / Ramie A. Tritt. 23. Will Doctors Take Back Health Care? / Uwe E. Reinhardt.

ISBN

• 0865776873 (TNY)
• 3131099410 (GTV)

LCCN

97017252

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries