The introduction of information technology (IT) in physician organizations and practices is a source of great interest to physician leaders and policy makers.
By the late 1990s, initial consumer support for HMOs (health maintenance organizations) eroded; consumers expressed fear that needed care might be withheld, and many favored tighter government regulation.
These appendices accompany a report that evaluates alternative assessment tools for use in a prospective payment system for inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
While disparities in access to care are well documented, little is known about the quality of mental health care received by racial and ethnic minorities.
To discuss and quantify the incentives that Medicare managed care plans have to avoid (through selective enrollment or disenrollment) people who are at risk for very high costs, focusing on Medicare beneficiaries in the last year of life - a group that accounts for more than one-quarter of Medicare's annual expenditures.
A backlash of public opinion against health maintenance organizations in the late 1990s did not result in large numbers of Americans switching to health insurance plans that offer greater consumer choice.
Experts have developed a system for measuring the quality of care delivered to the elderly and used the system to assess the quality of care given to a group of older adults who were members of a managed care plan.
