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Law and Practice of Private Health Insurance and Managed Care

©2000 Diplomarbeit 143 Seiten

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A true revolution has taken place in the financing of health care in America. Today, managed care is dominating the way Americans receive and pay for their health care.
With the rise of managed care medicine has been wrenched out of its atomized world of solo physician practices and community hospitals and has been transformed into a modern industry of giant for-profit companies traded on Wall Street. The current marketplace is characterized by mergers, acquisitions and the establishment of giant multi-billion dollar healthcare networks. Hospitals and managed care plans run big advertisement campaigns in the media, praising their products and services in order to get the biggest share possible of the $1.1 trillion America spends on health care each year. All parties involved in providing health care lobby for their interests at all levels of political decision-making in order to influence legislators and policymakers.
Today’s health care market changes quickly and at a high rate. New variations of managed care arise constantly making any analysis of managed care an ongoing game of "catch-up" with the marketplace. While writing this paper, for example, UnitedHealthcare dropped one of the major managed care instruments, utilization review, to address public’s concerns and pending legislation. This paper will take a “snapshot” of managed care on the eve of the new millennium by using the most recent information available.
After this introduction, the paper will give a description of the current American health care system in chapter two (The U.S. Health Care System). Then, the paper will focus on two aspects: A detailed description of managed care in chapter three (Managed Care) and an introduction of the main issues connected with this way of providing health care in chapter four (Managed Care issues). The paper will argue in chapter five (Results and Future Developments), that managed care of the future will be a “light” version of what is currently existing, resulting in less strict restrictions and more freedom for patients and doctors.
Finally, the report will focus on recent developments in Germany, where policy-makers have started to adopt particular elements of managed care. In chapter six (Managed Care Approaches in Germany), the paper will argue, that Germany should pay more attention to the American experiences regarding managed care in order to prevent harm for patients in […]

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Seiten
Erscheinungsform
Originalausgabe
Erscheinungsjahr
2000
ISBN (eBook)
9783832423216
ISBN (Paperback)
9783838623214
DOI
10.3239/9783832423216
Dateigröße
6.4 MB
Sprache
Englisch
Institution / Hochschule
Technische Universität Darmstadt – Unbekannt
Erscheinungsdatum
2000 (April)
Note
1,0
Schlagworte
disease management health maintenance organization medical savings account utilization review managed care
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