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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Managed care organizations"”.
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Should Hospitals and Managed Care Organizations Compete for the Health of It
… uses data from the population of inpatient Medicare hospitalization occurrences in Florida during 1995. Seventeen diagnoses are selected and examined using patient discharge data from this state. Measures of local competition, including Herfindahl indices as measures of hospital and managed care …
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Health Care Institutions, Medical Organizing, and Physicians: A Multilevel Analysis
Managed care---the dominant mode of health care organizing and financing today---may threaten physicians' satisfaction with practicing medicine, but research has revealed that it is not dissatisfying for physicians in all organizational settings. The institutional theory of organizational …
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The effects of direct-to-consumer antidepressent advertising on doctor-patient relationships
… open-ended interviews with eight primary care physicians to understand their feelings about direct-to-consumer antidepressant advertising. I performed a content analysis of eight antidepressant and antidepressant add-on advertisements available on YouTube. I also collected and analyzed …
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Ethical Dilemmas of Psychologists in Managed Care Settings: a Critical Incidents Study
Managed care has dramatically changed the landscape of mental health care in this country. Psychologists have had to significantly alter their practice to accommodate clients covered by managed care organizations. In this new health care environment, the profession is faced with unprecedented …
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A Needs Assessment of Communicare's Children Mental Health Services
… and the benefits of conducting one. Communicare is a mental health agency that serves the Lincoln Trail Region. Currently, most of the revenue from their children programs comes from Medicaid, which is a fee-for-services payer source. The Kentucky Medicaid Program is in the process of …
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Financial problems confronting U.S. medical schools in an era of expanding group care
… medical centers (AMCs) from the competition from managed care. From fiscally sound and thriving organizations a decade ago, many medical schools are now facing severe money problems. U. S. medical schools derive a large share of their general operating revenues from patient care, through the …
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Effects of a Collaborative Care for Depression Intervention on Health Service Utilization and Depression Severity
… affecting the Medicaid population. Collaborative care programs for depression are transforming primary care to increase access and coordinate physical and behavioral health services. Understanding the relationships between components of collaborative care programs, characteristics of participants, …
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A web-based survey to assess perceptions of managed care organization representatives regarding the use of co-pay subsidy coupons for prescription drugs
… co-pays has increased. The co-pays are used by managed care organizations (MCOs) to give their plan members an appreciation of drug costs as well as to offer incentives to use available equivalent generic alternatives due to lower co-pays. With higher tiered co-pays for brand-name drugs being …
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Essays in public economics and political economy
… The first chapter analyzes the impacts of the managed care backlash in the United States on health care costs in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During the late 1990s, most U.S. states passed a variety of laws in this period that restricted the cost-cutting measures that managed care …
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Medicaid Discontinuity among Adults with Cardiovascular Disease or High Risk Conditions: Associations with Medication Adherence and Health Care Utilization
… discontinuous Medicaid coverage on access to care, preventive care, pharmacotherapy, primary care, and hospitalizations, among non-elderly adults with cardiovascular disease (CVD) or high-risk conditions.</p> <p><strong>OBJECTIVES:</strong> This dissertation employed a three empirical research …