num_pages: 388
description: "This highly readable text gives a broad but detailed picture of how health care is organized and dispensed in the United States." -Annals of Internal Medicine, on the First Edition The #1 text on health policy, this well-known book provides a short introduction to U.S. health care policy by two leading experts who are themselves practicing physicians. The Fourth Edition features the latest information on cost containment, health insurance, managed care, hospital payment, and the new two-tier model of physician reimbursement.
language: English
title: Understanding Health Policy
titlecomplete: Understanding Health Policy (LANGE)
genres: Health Care
ratings_count: 93
publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical