Health Care Cost Containment Strategies

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309082655

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Unequal Treatment by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Pdf

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received. In Unequal Treatment, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Patients' and providers' attitudes, expectations, and behavior are analyzed. How to intervene? Unequal Treatment offers recommendations for improvements in medical care financing, allocation of care, availability of language translation, community-based care, and other arenas. The committee highlights the potential of cross-cultural education to improve provider-patient communication and offers a detailed look at how to integrate cross-cultural learning within the health professions. The book concludes with recommendations for data collection and research initiatives. Unequal Treatment will be vitally important to health care policymakers, administrators, providers, educators, and students as well as advocates for people of color.

Author : Stuart O. Schweitzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Medical care
ISBN : UCAL:B4193321

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Policies for the Containment of Health Care Costs and Expenditures by Stuart O. Schweitzer Pdf

Author : John Rapoport,Philip Jacobs,Egon Jonsson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783527622955

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Cost Containment and Efficiency in National Health Systems by John Rapoport,Philip Jacobs,Egon Jonsson Pdf

Written by a local health economics expert, each of the eight chapters in this timely handbook and ready reference describes the national healthcare system of a different industrialized country. In each case, the 4-5 specific policies with the highest impact on that respective country over the past 20-30 years are identified. In addition, the economic characteristics of each policy are described and, where possible, its success evaluated, discussing the current policy agenda. A final chapter summarizes and synthesizes the major points of the analysis. While the main focus is on economics, this guide is written in non-technical language for an audience of health policy decision makers or students of health policy, making it an invaluable contribution to the current debate surrounding the control of rising healthcare-related costs in the developed world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:18288832

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Health Care Cost Containment by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Cost control
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045504698

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Health Care Cost Containment Strategies by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources Pdf

Author : Karen Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Medical care
ISBN : UOM:39076001001572

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Health Care Cost Containment by Karen Davis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112023356576

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Rising Health Care Costs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jon B. Christianson,Kenneth Rodger Smith
Publisher : PMA Publishing Corporation
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Cost control
ISBN : UCAL:B4339093

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Current Strategies for Containing Health Care Expenditures by Jon B. Christianson,Kenneth Rodger Smith Pdf

Author : Laura C. Ronan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Medical care, Cost of
ISBN : OCLC:9089718

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State Health Care Cost Containment by Laura C. Ronan Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309144339

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The Healthcare Imperative by Institute of Medicine,Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine Pdf

The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discussed key levers for catalyzing transformation of the delivery system. A few included streamlined health insurance regulation, administrative simplification and clarification and quality and consistency in treatment. The book is an excellent guide for policymakers at all levels of government, as well as private sector healthcare workers.

Author : Robert D. Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cost control
ISBN : UCSC:32106007093609

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Health Care Cost Management by Robert D. Cooper Pdf

Author : Jonathan Cylus,Irene Papanicolas,Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Health Policy
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9289050411

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Health System Efficiency by Jonathan Cylus,Irene Papanicolas,Peter C. Smith Pdf

In this book the authors explore the state of the art on efficiency measurement in health systems and international experts offer insights into the pitfalls and potential associated with various measurement techniques. The authors show that: - The core idea of efficiency is easy to understand in principle - maximizing valued outputs relative to inputs, but is often difficult to make operational in real-life situations - There have been numerous advances in data collection and availability, as well as innovative methodological approaches that give valuable insights into how efficiently health care is delivered - Our simple analytical framework can facilitate the development and interpretation of efficiency indicators.

Author : National Center for Health Services Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Cost effectiveness
ISBN : IND:30000106631108

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Controlling the Cost of Health Care by National Center for Health Services Research Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Employment-Based Health Benefits
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309048279

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Employment and Health Benefits by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Employment-Based Health Benefits Pdf

The United States is unique among economically advanced nations in its reliance on employers to provide health benefits voluntarily for workers and their families. Although it is well known that this system fails to reach millions of these individuals as well as others who have no connection to the work place, the system has other weaknesses. It also has many advantages. Because most proposals for health care reform assume some continued role for employers, this book makes an important contribution by describing the strength and limitations of the current system of employment-based health benefits. It provides the data and analysis needed to understand the historical, social, and economic dynamics that have shaped present-day arrangements and outlines what might be done to overcome some of the access, value, and equity problems associated with current employer, insurer, and government policies and practices. Health insurance terminology is often perplexing, and this volume defines essential concepts clearly and carefully. Using an array of primary sources, it provides a store of information on who is covered for what services at what costs, on how programs vary by employer size and industry, and on what governments doâ€"and do not doâ€"to oversee employment-based health programs. A case study adapted from real organizations' experiences illustrates some of the practical challenges in designing, managing, and revising benefit programs. The sometimes unintended and unwanted consequences of employer practices for workers and health care providers are explored. Understanding the concepts of risk, biased risk selection, and risk segmentation is fundamental to sound health care reform. This volume thoroughly examines these key concepts and how they complicate efforts to achieve efficiency and equity in health coverage and health care. With health care reform at the forefront of public attention, this volume will be important to policymakers and regulators, employee benefit managers and other executives, trade associations, and decisionmakers in the health insurance industry, as well as analysts, researchers, and students of health policy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993-07
Category : Managed care plans (Medical care)
ISBN : 0788100262

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Managed Competition by Anonim Pdf

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