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January 1, 2001 | Book
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has approached managed care over the past 29 years and illustrates how the Foundation's strategies have changed as the concept of managed care itself has evolved.
January 1, 2003 | Book
Although some claim that managed care in the United States is "dead," there are still many challenges and opportunities for positive change within the U.S. health care system. The goal of this book is to combine ethical analysis and real-world experience to provide practical lessons about managed care.
January 1, 2006 | Book
By the 1990s most Medicaid programs used managed care, and by 2003 some 60 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries were in managed care programs, largely HMOs. This chapter describes the evolution of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative, the Medica ...
January 1, 2002 | Book
Susan Dentzer explores whether service credit banking--as demonstrated in the projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation--was a good idea that was badly timed or implemented, or whether it was simply a flawed idea.
January 1, 1999 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology by Lisa Lopez, a freelance writer specializing in health care, analyzes the strategies and accomplishments of two significant investments by the Foundation to improve the way services for chronically ill people are organized and delivered
January 1, 2007 | Book
One of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's priorities is improving the quality of care delivered to people with chronic illnesses. In this chapter, freelance journalist Irene Wielawski, a frequent contributor to the Anthology series, explores a Foundation-supported initiative called Improving Chronic Illness Care, a pioneering effort spearheaded by Edward Wagner, M.D., of the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle to provide medical care for chronically ill people, whatever their condition.
January 1, 2007 | Book
An overview of the Communities in Charge program which supported 14 communities' efforts to expand insurance coverage within their geographic area.