Research Catalog

Title

Entrepreneurial trends in health care delivery : the development of retail dentistry and freestanding ambulatory services : a report / by Joan B. Trauner, Harold S. Luft, Joy O. Robinson ; Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco for the Federal Trade Commission.

Author

University of California, San Francisco. Institute for Health Policy Studies.

Publication

[S.l. : s.n.], 1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Luft, Harold S.
• Robinson, Jay O.
• Trauner, Joan B.

Description

v, 180 p. : tables; 28 cm.

Summary

This study analyzes high volume dental offices in retail settings, freestanding urgent/primary care services, and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers. The intent of the study is two-fold: to provide the Federal Trade Commission with a descriptive overview of the three types of health care series and to identify various factors impeding their growth for possible investigation by FTC staff.

Subject

• Emergency Medical Services > economics
• Economics, Medical
• Economics, Dental
• Ambulatory Surgical Procedures > economics
• Ambulatory Care Facilities > economics
• Medical economics > United States
• Dental economics > United States
• Emergency medical services > United States
• Surgical clinics > United States
• Health facilities > United States
• United States

Note

• Cover title.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Changing patterns of health care delivery -- Retailing of dental services -- Freestanding urgent/primary care services -- Freestanding ambulatory surgery centers -- Public policy considerations -- List of covered procedures under proposed Medicare regulations -- List of professional and trade associations contacted -- Ambulatory surgery center regulations, Selected States, 1982 -- Glossary.

OCLC

• 9183630
• SCSB-14235970

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library