Regulating Managed Care
Theory, Practice, and Future Options
Stuart H Altman author Uwe E Reinhardt author David Shactman author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published:25th Jun '99
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
What should be government's role in a market-oriented health caresystem?
What's the appropriate amount of regulation?
Who should regulate-states, federal government, or marketforces?
What role do the courts play in this regulation?
Are there existing models that might guide leaders in designing aneffective regulatory structure?
Welcome to the great managed care debate. In Regulating ManagedCare, twenty-six of the nation's leading health policy experts givehealth care administrators, clinicians, and policy makers insightinto the issues behind this critical exchange and provide leaderswith a road map to assess the policy options available to protectthe quality of our health care delivery system.
"This collection of papers, from an extraordinary group of authors,makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing policy debate and willbe of interest to anyone concerned with the future of our healthcare system."---Charles A. Sanders, retired chairman and CEO GlaxoInc. and former general director, Massachusetts General Hospital
"This is a very useful collection of essays by some of the nation'smost influential health policy experts. Topics covered: the theoryof regulation, the ways in which the HMO industry does and does notfit the standard model, and consumer and insurance industryperspectives on regulation and practical implementation issues."(Bryan E. Dowd, University of Minnesota School of Public Health,Hospital & Health Networks, March 2000)
"This collection of papers, from an extraordinary group of authors,makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing policy debate and willbe of interest to anyone concerned with the future of our healthcare system." (Charles A. Sanders, retired chairman and CEO, GlaxoInc., and former general director, Massachusetts GeneralHospital)
"This balanced collection of cutting-edge papers reviewing thetheory and practice of health regulation is a must-read for thosewho regulate and for those regulated by this market-moving thedebate from whether to regulate to how to do this most difficulttask more effectively." (W. David Helms, CEO, Association forHealth Services Research and president, Alpha Center)
ISBN: 9780787947835
Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
Weight: 633g
400 pages