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Managed Health Care

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The effect of managed care on primary care services for women
The effect of managed care on primary care services for women
Jan 1, 1998
Journal Article
The Urgent Need to Improve Health Care Quality: Institute of Medicine National Roundtable on Health Care Quality
The objective of this study was to identify issues related to the quality of health care in the United States, including its measurement, assessment, and improvement, requiring action by health care professionals or other constituencies in the public or private sectors.
Jan 1, 1998
Journal Article
Quality Indicators for General Practice: Which Ones Can General Practitioners and Health Authority Managers Agree Are Important and How Useful Are They?
The aim of the study was to assess the face validity of quality indicators being proposed for use in general practice by health authorities.
Jan 1, 1998
Journal Article
Member Ratings of Health Care Provided by 48 Physician Groups
Satisfaction with health plan performance has been assessed frequently, but assessment of physician group performance is rare
Jan 1, 1998
Journal Article
Costs and Use of Mental Health Services Before and After Managed Care
This paper tracks access, utilization, and costs of mental health care for a private employer over nine years.
Jan 1, 1998
Research Brief
How Does Managed Care Affect the Cost of Mental Health Services?
RAND conducted three studies examining issues surrounding mental health benefits under managed care. The studies focused on the costs of mental health services under managed care and the implications of the 1996 parity legislation for cost and benefit design.
Jan 1, 1998
Journal Article
How Far Down the Managed Care Road? A Comparison of Primary Care Outpatient Services in a Veteran's Affairs Medical Center and a Capitated Multispecialty Group Practice
The authors compared a VA facility with similar managed care organizations on specific managed care performance benchmarks.
Jan 1, 1998
Journal Article
Medication in the Mailbox
Questionnaires suggest similar levels of satisfaction between patrons of mail-pharmacy services and those using traditional pharmacy services.
May 1, 1997
Journal Article
Having a Foot in Both Camps: The Impact of Kerr White's Vision
The interface between clinical care and public health, and the differences in the quality of care provided at sophisticated referral centers and community-based clinics lie at the very heart of both the problems and the prospects confronting managed care.
Apr 1, 1997
Journal Article
Quality Assessment in Contracting for Tertiary Care Services by HMOs: A Case Study of Three Markets
Few studies have examined the provision of tertiary care services by managed care organizations (MCOs).
Jan 1, 1997
Journal Article
Segmentation of Hospital Markets: Where Do HMO Enrollees Get Care?
Commercially insured and Medicare patients not in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) tend to use different hospitals than HMO patients use.
Jan 1, 1997
Journal Article
Referrals by General Internists and Internal Medicine Trainees in an Academic Medicine Practice
Patient referral from generalists to specialists is a critical clinic care process that has received little scrutiny, especially in academic settings.
Jan 1, 1997
Journal Article
Do We Understand the Effects of 'Managed Care' in Ophthalmology? A Review and Analysis
Notable gaps exist in the knowledge of critical elements of the influence of managed care on providing eye care and on patient outcomes.
Jan 1, 1997
Report
How Expensive is Unlimited Mental Health Care Coverage Under Managed Care?
It shows that the assumptions used in 1996's policy debates overstated actual managed care costs by more than 300%.
Jan 1, 1997
Journal Article
Health of the Public: The Private Sector Challenge
The rapid growth of managed care poses challenges and opportunities for the health of the public.
Oct 2, 1996
Report
The effects of benefit design and managed care on health care costs
The effects of benefit design and managed care on health care costs
Jan 1, 1996
Report
Managed care and capitation in California, how do physicians at financial risk control their own utilization?
Managed care and capitation in California, how do physicians at financial risk control their own utilization?
Jan 1, 1996
Report
Adapting practice patterns to a managed care environment, carotid endarterectomy--a case example
Adapting practice patterns to a managed care environment, carotid endarterectomy--a case example
Jan 1, 1996
Report
Care for Depression in a Changing Environment
Focusing on care for clinical depression as a test case, this paper summarizes the authors previously published findings on the effects of various payment strategies, managed care, and primary care gatekeepers on the outcomes and costs for the treatment of mental health conditions.
Jan 1, 1995
Journal Article
Managed Care and Dentistry: Promises and Problems
Contrasts the original promises of managed care for dental providers and patients with the present realities of managed care in dentistry. The authors suggest that three issues need to be addressed: financial equity for the patient and the provider; the quality of the care provided under capitated systems; and the need for regulation.
Jan 1, 1995

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Researcher Spotlight

M. Susan Ridgely

Adjunct Senior Health Policy Researcher

M. Susan Ridgely is an adjunct senior health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and a Pardee RAND Graduate School affiliate faculty member. She has more than 30 years of experience in health services research and policy analysis.
Erin Audrey Taylor

Senior Policy Researcher

Erin Taylor (she/her) is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Her research addresses a broad range of health care insurance, prescription drug, and care quality issues, including the impact of insurance benefit design on use of opioids and specialty drugs. Taylor is currently…

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