S E Berki
S E Berki
Recent trends in the health care system are changing relationships between physicians and hospitals. Excess hospital capacity, DRGs, and prospective payment impel managers to be more cost conscious. By introducing protocols, practice monito...
Health care delivery update: Part 1. Trends: less and more integration, bundled services, rethinking IPAs [0.03%]
医疗服务体系变革综述（一）：趋向整合和打包服务以及对IPAS的反思
P M Ellwood Jr
P M Ellwood Jr
Vertical integration of national medical firms that contract with physicians has slowed dramatically. At the same time, several top-level group practices, taking advantage of reputations for excellence, are integrating vertically on a natio...
R B Doherty,E S Ogrod nd
R B Doherty
The Physician Payment Review Commission's endorsement of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) represents a major step in reform of the Medicare payment system. Under this plan, cognitive services finally would be reimbursed at th...
J C Cutler
J C Cutler
In view of the increasing concerns about AIDS, confidentiality, and reactions to risk factors such as homosexuality and drug abuse, our patients and communities should be familiarized with medicine's past successes in control of sexually tr...
Comparative Study
Consultant. 1989 Jun;29(6):56-7, 60, 62-3. DOI: 1989
W M McDermott Jr
W M McDermott Jr
The national precedent set in 1986--when Chapter 475, mandating Medicare assignment in Massachusetts, became law--has spread across the United States as other states seek to control physicians' incomes under the Medicare program. While some...
Underinsured and uninsured patients. Who are they, and how can they be covered? [0.03%]
欠保险人与无保险人：他们是谁？如何为他们提供保障？
G R Wilensky
G R Wilensky
Whether 31 million or 37 million, the number of Americans who are either partially or completely without medical insurance is far too high, and may well be growing. Explanations include the recession of the early 1980s, the change from a ma...
Physician-controlled HMOs. The basics of forming a successful organization [0.03%]
以医生为中心的HMO管理组织的基本要素
N C Payson
N C Payson
Physician-sponsored HMOs are an excellent way to preserve one's practice, control health care issues, and assure fair reimbursement as professionals and investors in your own HMO. A physician-owned and -controlled HMO is, in the ultimate se...
W L Roper
W L Roper
The Reagan administration's Medicare policy is based on maintaining a high quality of care, reducing government's direct involvement in medicine, increasing choices for both beneficiaries and health care providers, and promoting competition...
Countering HMO marketing practices. Questions for patients and physicians to ask before joining [0.03%]
反击健康维护组织的促销手段 供病人和医师在参加之前参考的问题集锦
M Buenaflor
M Buenaflor
The target here is not the HMO, but the method in which HMOs are marketed: by smooth-talking representatives who promise maximal care for minimal cost, and who underestimate the intelligence or take advantage of the inexperience of the pati...
N R Powe
N R Powe
The gatekeeper approach to the delivery of medical care, while not really a new concept, has a new raison d'être--cost containment. It infuses a new form of authority into the role of primary care physicians while at the same time it bring...