Toward a 21st century health system
Subtitle: the contributions and promise of prepaid group practice
By: Alain C. Enthoven, Laura A. Tollen, editors ; foreword by William L. Roper.
Contributors: Enthoven, Alain C., 1930-; Tollen, Laura A.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Health maintenance organizations -- United States; Managed care plans (Medical care) -- United States; Group Practice, Prepaid -- trends -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- United States; Group Practice, Prepaid -- economics -- United States; Health Policy -- United States; Quality of Health Care -- United States
Description: Presents a collection of analyses exploring a key element of the healthcare delivery system--physician group practices. Addresses such topics as organized delivery systems, quality of care in prepaid group practice, the role of physician leadership and culture in group practice, and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prepaid groups and organized delivery systems: promise, performance, and potential / Stephen M. Shortell, Julie Schmittdiel; title: Systems and results: the basis for quality care in prepaid group practice / Donald M. Berwick, Sachin H. Jain; title: The clinical and economic performance of prepaid group practice / Kenneth H. Chuang, Harold S. Luft, R. Adams Dudley; title: Prepaid group practice and health care policy / Jon B. Christianson, George Avery; title: Technology assessment, deployment, and implementation in prepaid group practice / David M. Eddy; title: Managing the pharmacy benefit in prepaid group practice / William H. Campbell, Richard E. Johnson, Sharon L. Levine; title: Prepaid group practice and medical workforce policy / Jonathan P. Weiner; title: Prepaid group practice and health care research / Raymond Fink, Merwyn R. Greenlick; title: Physician leadership: group responsibility as key to accountability in medicine / Francis J. Crosson, Allan J. Weiland, Robert A. Berenson; title: The limits of prepaid group practice / James C. Robinson; title: The relationship between prepaid group practice and the employer community / Helen Darling; title: Open the markets and level the playing field / Alain C. Enthoven; title: Epilogue: Prepaid group practice and computerized caregiver support tools / George C. Halvorson.