Research Catalog

Title

America's health care safety net : intact but endangered / Committee on the Changing Market, Managed Care, and the Future Viability of Safety Net Providers ; Marion Ein Lewin and Stuart Altman, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Institute of Medicine ; National Academy Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Lewin, Marion Ein
• Altman, Stuart H.
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Changing Market, Managed Care, and the Future Viability of Safety Net Providers

Description

xviii, 281 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• "America's Health Care Safety Net explains how competition and issues in today's health care marketplace are posing major challenges to continued access to care for America's poor and uninsured.
• At a time when policymakers and providers are urgently seeking guidance, this book suggests concrete strategies that are at our disposal for maintaining the viability of the safety net - suggestions that carry with them innovative approaches to building public attention, developing better tools for tracking the problem, and designing effective interventions.".
• "This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how safety net providers are being challenged by and responding to a more cost-conscious, price-oriented, competitive health care market."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Delivery of Health Care
• United States
• Medicaid
• Medically Uninsured
• Medical care > Needs assessment > United States
• Medical assistance > United States
• Medical Assistance
• Poor > Medical care > United States
• Medical policy > United States
• Medically uninsured persons > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Executive Summary. 1. Background and Overview. 2. The Core Safety Net and the Safety Net System. 3. Forces Affecting Safety Net Providers in a Changing Health Care Environment. 4. How Safety Net Providers are Adapting to the New Environment. 5. The Impact of Change on Vulnerable Populations. 6. Safety Net Populations with Special Health and Access Needs. 7. Findings and Recommendations. App. D. California Regional Meeting Agenda -- App. E. California Regional Meeting Participants -- App. F. New York Regional Meeting Agenda -- App. G. New York Regional Meeting Participants.

ISBN

030906497X

LCCN

00033231

OCLC

• ocm43985328
• SCSB-4789549

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries