Managed health care in the new millennium
Subtitle: innovative financial modeling for the 21st century
By: David I. Samuels
Publisher: Taylor & Francis/CRC Press; CRC Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781439840306
Subjects: Managed Care Programs; Capitation Fee; Economics; Marketing of Health Services
Description: "Thoroughly exploring how capitation has evolved domestically and internationally in recent years, this book discusses actuarial assumptions and the difficulties in payers transitions from community-based underwriting to experience-based ratings. It explores what the future holds in the areas of clinical pathways and population-based risk assumption tools and approaches. It covers what happens when the underlying actuarial and risk assumptions are ignored or trivialized. The author also discusses the challenges capitation-based pricing faces from an international perspective, including Latin America and the Caribbean"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.

Update of: Capitation / David I. Samuels. c1996.