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March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Brandeis University contracted with two experts in the economics of health care to conduct a literature review and develop a paper for presentation at the Eighth Princeton Conference.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
In 2000, the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute of Portland, Ore. held a conference on cost-effectiveness analysis and managed care.
July 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health examined the mix of services provided to consumers enrolled in alternative types of managed-care plans.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, researchers at the University of Alabama studied the effect of any willing provider (AWP) and freedom of choice (FOC) laws on Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and employers.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1998, researchers at Stanford University looked at how managed care penetration in given geographic areas affected the diffusion and use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a technology that allows physicians to obtain very clear pictures of patients' internal organs and internal structures without invasive procedures.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1992 to 1995, researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, Mich., assessed the overall effects of preferred provider organizations (PPOs) on hospital, outpatient, physician, and total health care costs and utilization. They compared costs of care in the PPOs with those of managed indemnity plans.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1998, People-to-People Health Foundation, Millwood, Va., examined the management tools and strategies that managed care organizations use to influence technologies used by primary care physicians — including how to prescribe drugs and make referrals to specialists.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care examined how insurers, employers and other purchasers of health care decide which medical technologies to provide to consumers under resource constraints.
August 22, 2008 | Program Result Report
The number of Medicare beneficiaries enrolling in managed care has increased since the passage of the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) and the establishment of Medicare Advantage Plans in 2003.
April 6, 2007 | Program Result Report
The Alameda Alliance for Health, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization serving the people of Alameda County, established two new health insurance programs.