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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"managed care"”.
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Healthcare Cost Implications of Medicaid Managed Care
… the association between the burden of Medicaid Managed Care and the hospital's response to that burden in terms of the impact on patient charges. The study involved the use of a nationwide patient data set that included the most complete cost, charge and clinical data available. Procedure …
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Job Satisfaction Among Psychologists in a Managed-Care Environment
<p>The problem. The efforts of managed care to balance resources, cost, and quality of services have created new issues among mental health professionals, affecting their careers and having the potential to affect their job satisfaction. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to investigate how …
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State Level Mental Health Policy Making Under Managed Care
The adoption of managed care in public mental health care programs at the state level was a relatively new development in state mental health policy during the 1990s. The introduction of managed care for public mental health occurred primarily through the use of Medicaid managed care waivers, but …
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Essays on prescription drug benefits in Medicare managed care
… model for prescription drug benefits by Medicare beneficiaries using data from the Medicare HMO program. I then use the utility parameter estimates to explore other questions of interest relating to the elderly's demand for prescription drug benefits. In Chapter 1, I study the question of how …
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A Model of Patient Satisfaction and Behavioral Intention in Managed Care
… return business is a primary objective of the managed care marketplace. Identification of variables which contribute to both positive and negative patient experience in managed care systems is crucial to their effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to test the functional relationships …
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The Effects of Managed Care on the Quality of Dental Hygiene Care
Managed care has become a prominent mechanism for insuring dental care. Empirical research suggests that managed dental plans provide lower quality care to patients. However, few studies have specifically addressed the effects of managed care on the quality of dental hygiene care. Thus, in this …
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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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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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Policy Systems and Their Complexity Dynamics: Academic Medical Centers and Managed Care Markets
… and the provision of specialized clinical care, were chosen as an example to demonstrate the enhanced understanding that can be obtained from the application of complexity theory. Graphical and nonlinear mathematical tools were chosen to place this research study in contrast to studies that …
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Managing Identities in Managed Care: Top -Management -Team Responses to Organizational Complexity and Change
… I explore this issue in the context of healthcare organizations---chosen because of the industry's inherent degree of competing interests and the associated conflicts that have been raised by the managed care movement. In particular, I focus on the identity management strategies and mechanisms …
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Medicaid Managed Care: Providing Compassionate, Person-Centered Care for Individuals Dependent on the Public System
Managed care has been historically criticized as having a focus on controlling costs, as opposed to promoting healthcare. This thesis will discuss how managed care, particularly for the Medicaid population, can be implemented in an ethical manner through a focus on person-centered care and a modern …
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Effects Of Managed Care On The Health And Health-Care Of The Non-Elderly With Diabetes
… attempts to examine the quality effect of managed care plans (as compared with traditional fee-for-service plans, or FFS) on the health outcome and health care use of patients with diabetes. As the number of diabetics is growing rapidly with many of them are relying on managed care plans, …
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The Perspectives of the Woman/Nurse/Executive Working in the Managed Care Environment of Southern California
… of the woman/nurse/executive working in the managed care environment of Southern California. This research was extremely timely because (a) Southern California leads the nation in managed care market penetration, (b) changes in health care financing have resulted in a prolific expansion of …
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Role Expectation of Chief Nurse Executive Officers in Integrated Healthcare Systems Located in Highly Managed Care Markets
The healthcare industry is undergoing radical transformation. Healthcare's transformation is characterized by new patterns of organization, alliance, management, administration, and governance. Traditional fee-for-service reimbursement strategies are rapidly dissolving and managed health care is …
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The contribution of pre-hospital integrated care pathways on improving the clinical effectiveness of emergency ambulance managed care
… the development of integrated pre-hospital care pathways. The skill levels of paramedics have proven to be effective in the treatment of a number of serious conditions to the extent where the need to transfer the patients can be questioned. However the existing method of measuring …
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Participant profiles and symptom responses in the initial stages of a South African Mental health managed care programme
Introduction Continuously rising health care and workplace costs associated with mental illness is demanding attention from health care funders in South Africa’s private health care sector. The majority of mental health care costs are generated by in-hospital care, whilst funded access to …
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