Customer-directed healthcare reform with episode pricing
By: [edited by] Douglas Emery.
Contributors: Emery, Douglas W.
Publisher: Thomson South-Western
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cincinnati
Language: eng
Subjects: Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Economic aspects -- United States; Insurance, Health -- Economic aspects -- United States; Health care reform -- United States; Medical fees -- United States; Insurance, Health -- economics; Episode of Care; Fees and Charges; Health Care Reform; Health Expenditures; Managed Care Programs
Table of contents: title: The economics of episode contracting; title: What is an episode of care?; title: What is a minimalist recipe for accelerated reengineering of our delivery systems?; title: Focused factories ... for the healthcare industry?; title: Episodes of care: a successful model; title: Improving the efficiency of inpatient care in the medicare program using global payments and physician incentives; title: Unleashing the market: next generation networks for consumer driven health care; title: Creating information systems to support effective, efficient health care; title: The employer's role in realigning risks and incentives; title: Program review of past and existing global payment programs.