Competitive Managed Care (Hardcover)

Ruth S. Given

ISBN 10: 0787903094 / ISBN 13: 9780787903091

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, 1996

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Hardcover. The Emerging U.S. Health Care System The first comprehensive assessment of the new managed care and its potential for addressing the health delivery problems facing the nation. --Stephen M. Shortell, A. C. Buehler, Distinguished Professor of Health Services Management and professor of organization behavior, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University A distinguished group of sixteen health care experts identify and assess the challenges and opportunities raised by the U.S.'s emerging competitive health care system. This timely book looks at the managed forms of care that are thriving in today's competitive bottom line environment. A thoughtful commentary on the major trAnds in health care, this book provides a much needed resource for health care providers and government policymakers. The Emerging U.S. Health Care System The first comprehensive assessment of the new managed care and its potential for addressing the health delivery problems facing the nation. ----Stephen M. Shortell, A.C. Buehler, Distinguished Professor of Health Services Management and professor of organization behavior, J.L. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Competitive Managed Care (Hardcover)
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787903094
• ISBN 13: 9780787903091
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The Emerging U.S. Health Care System

The first comprehensive assessment of the new managed care and its potential for addressing the health delivery problems facing the nation.
--Stephen M. Shortell, A. C. Buehler, Distinguished Professor of Health Services Management and professor of organization behavior, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

A distinguished group of sixteen health care experts identify and assess the challenges and opportunities raised by the U.S.'s emerging competitive health care system. This timely book looks at the managed forms of care that are thriving in today's competitive bottom line
environment. A thoughtful commentary on the major trAnds in health care, this book provides a much needed resource for health care providers and government policymakers.

About the Author

JOHN D. WILKERSON Kelly J. Devers, and Ruth S. Given collaborated on this book while they were Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in the Health Policy Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley. John D. Wilkerson is assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington, Seattle. Kelly J. Devers is an expert appointee at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Center for Organization and Delivery. Ruth S. Given is director of the Department of Health Care Policy at the California Medical Association.