Managed Health Care

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Mar 5, 2012

Ways to Improve Health Care Provider 'Report Cards'

As health care reform expands the use of "report cards" to grade health care providers, greater attention to reporting methods may be needed to assure the quality of such efforts.
Oct 5, 2011

Focus on the Rising Cost of Health Care

A substantial body of RAND research has focused on evaluating policies to lower health care costs; promoting health and preventing disease; and improving health system value and quality of care.
Tool

Jul 22, 2011

Managed Health Care Survey from RAND Health

The Managed Health Care Survey is designed to capture key differences between managed and un-managed care, as well as differences among managed care arrangements.
Research

May 1, 2011

Differential Item Functioning By Survey Language Among Older Hispanics Enrolled in Medicare Managed Care

Failure to account for language differences in CAHPS survey items may result in misleading conclusions about disparities in health care experiences between Spanish and English speakers.
Research

Apr 1, 2011

The Impact of Patient Choice of Provider on Equity: Analysis of a Patient Survey

More educated, affluent patients were no more likely to be offered a choice than other population groups, but there does appear to be a social gradient in who chose to travel beyond the local area for treatment. If these results were replicated across England, there is at least the potential risk that when local hospitals are failing, patient choice could result in inequitable access to high quality care, rather than enhancing equity as the policy's architects had hoped.
Research

Jan 1, 2010

Risk-adjusted Capitation Rates for Children: How Useful Are the Survey-Based Measures?

National health surveys can provide information, including measures of special health care needs, that can improve risk-adjustment models and help provide appropriate payments to managed-care plans serving vulnerable children.
Research

Jan 1, 2010

Usual Care Psychotherapy for Depression in a Large Managed Behavioral Health Organization

Many depressed patients are receiving recommended psychotherapy but better tools are needed to monitor and improve the quality of usual psychotherapeutic care.
Research

Jun 1, 2009

Managed Care Quality of Care and Plan Choice in New York SCHIP

Examines whether low-income parents of children enrolled in the New York State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) choose managed care plans with better quality of care.
Research

May 1, 2009

Who Gets Disease Management?

This was an observational study of the health care use, costs, and quality of care of 27,211 members of a large health insurer who were identified through claims as having asthma, diabetes, or congestive heart failure, were considered to be at high risk for incurring significant claims costs, and were eligible to join a disease management program involving health coaching. Findings illuminated the serious problem of selection into Disease management (DM) programs and suggest that the effectiveness levels found in prior evaluations using methodologies that don't address this may be overstated.
Research

Mar 1, 2009

Managed Care's Price Bargaining with Hospitals

Research has shown that managed care (MC) slowed the rate of growth in health care spending in the 1990s, primarily via lower unit prices paid.
Research

Jan 1, 2009

Competition and the Mental Health System

This article describes three notable features of the competitive mental health care market and their policy implications.
Research

Jan 1, 2009

Quality Assessments By Sick and Healthy Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Managed Care

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pays for services provided through traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare and managed care plans (Medicare Advantage [MA]). It is important to understand how financing and organizational arrangements relate to quality of care. Compares care experiences and preventive services receipt in traditional Medicare and MA for healthy and sick beneficiaries.

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Ways to Improve Health Care Provider 'Report Cards'

Focus on the Rising Cost of Health Care

Managed Health Care Survey from RAND Health

Differential Item Functioning By Survey Language Among Older Hispanics Enrolled in Medicare Managed Care

The Impact of Patient Choice of Provider on Equity: Analysis of a Patient Survey

Risk-adjusted Capitation Rates for Children: How Useful Are the Survey-Based Measures?

Usual Care Psychotherapy for Depression in a Large Managed Behavioral Health Organization

Managed Care Quality of Care and Plan Choice in New York SCHIP

Who Gets Disease Management?

Managed Care's Price Bargaining with Hospitals

Competition and the Mental Health System

Quality Assessments By Sick and Healthy Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Managed Care

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Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

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Ways to Improve Health Care Provider 'Report Cards'

Focus on the Rising Cost of Health Care

Managed Health Care Survey from RAND Health

Differential Item Functioning By Survey Language Among Older Hispanics Enrolled in Medicare Managed Care

The Impact of Patient Choice of Provider on Equity: Analysis of a Patient Survey

Risk-adjusted Capitation Rates for Children: How Useful Are the Survey-Based Measures?

Usual Care Psychotherapy for Depression in a Large Managed Behavioral Health Organization

Managed Care Quality of Care and Plan Choice in New York SCHIP

Who Gets Disease Management?

Managed Care's Price Bargaining with Hospitals

Competition and the Mental Health System

Quality Assessments By Sick and Healthy Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Managed Care

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