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Addressing Tobacco in Health Care

July 11, 2009 | Program Result

Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care supported evaluations of replicable efforts by managed care organizations to integrate effective tobacco-cessation interventions into everyday clinical practice and the basic health care these organizations provide.

Pressure from HMOs to See More Patients Decreases Time Devoted to Teaching of Third-Year Medical School Students

January 1, 2003 | Program Result

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, conducted a 2000 study of junior medical students' educational activities - instructional time and types of teachers - in non-university teaching hospitals.

In Competitive Markets, Price, Not Quality, Guides Health Plans' Choices

August 1, 2003 | Program Result

This 1994–1997 project, conducted by Jack A. Hadley, Ph.D., and researchers at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, evaluated managed care plans' use of selective contracting to purchase tertiary care services.

HMOs Make Good Bedfellows with Mid-Cost, Higher Quality Hospitals, But Not with Teaching or For-Profit Hospitals

January 1, 2001 | Program Result

From 1996 to 1998, researchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham studied the behavior of managed care organizations (MCOs) in their contracting with hospitals. The study, based on eight years of data from Illinois, sought to shed light on why MCOs contract with particular hospitals and how stable these relationships are over time.

An Unusual Collaboration to Improve Children's Health

February 1, 2000 | Program Result

The National Association of School Nurses, Scarborough, Maine, examined the potential collaboration of managed care organizations and school health services.

Reexamining Organizational Configurations

February 1, 2004 | Journal Article

During the 1990s, the health care community developed a taxonomy to define the structures and strategies of newly emerging health care organizations. Since the 1990s, however, health care has undergone significant changes, and the differences in hea ...

A Field Experiment on the Impact of Physician-Level Performance Data on Consumers' Choice of Physician

November 1, 2012 | Journal Article

The use of a publicly available online report of physician-level data on the choice of primary care provider (PCP) among new members to the HealthPlus of Michigan health plan was assessed in this study.

Consumers Union Offers 2000 Guide to Medigap Plans, Medicare HMOs, Nursing Homes

January 1, 2003 | Program Result

The Consumers Union of the United States created the 568-page Consumer Reports Complete Guide to Health Services for Seniors, which was published by Three Rivers Press in 2000.

Nursing Home Residents Fare Better with a Dedicated Team of Medical Practitioners

January 1, 2002 | Program Result

A project team at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, studied the long-term care being provided to nursing home residents using different models of HMO primary care.

Task Force Identifies Ways to Improve End-of-Life Care Provided by Managed Care Organizations

July 1, 2000 | Program Result

The purpose of this project was to encourage better terminal and palliative care for the growing number of Medicare, Medicaid and commercial beneficiaries being served by managed care organizations.

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