Recent MHCA projects--on outcomes measurement, managed-care plan performance, and managed-care accreditation--will have a significant impact on the reformed U.S. health care system.
Recent MHCA projects--on outcomes measurement, managed-care plan performance, and managed-care accreditation--will have a significant impact on the reformed U.S. health care system.
An economist and analyst of public policy explains why medical spending accounts, a multitiered health care system, and elimination of government mandates would help solve the nation's health care crisis.
Without adequate information about their health plans, consumers cannot make the best decisions about their health care. A new approach to health benefits communications provides employees with timely, accurate, complete information that allows them to make cost-effective health care choices.
Congressional approval of the president's ambitious plan for rebuilding the U.S. health care system will depend on creating coalition in both the House and the Senate and on modifications that preserve the program's over-arching goals while incorporating aspects of other proposed reform plans.
A managed-care plan is attempting to reverse New Yorkers' negativity toward managed care. The focus is on giving consumers adequate information and access to allow them to make prudent health care choices.
The managed-care concurrent review process often results in denied or limited coverage of psychiatric inpatient care due to reviewers' misconceptions about psychiatric hospitalization and in an effort to achieve savings. For employers, such decisions may cost more in the long run.
Measuring patient satisfaction with health care treatment and delivery and making necessary adjustments can pay back big dividends to employers, payers, and providers in the form of cost savings and improved quality of care.
The administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration discusses managed competition, the cost concerns of small and large employers under such a program, and what benefits managers must do in response to health care reform.