{"title":"Managed Health Care Association update.","authors":"C Cronin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent MHCA projects--on outcomes measurement, managed-care plan performance, and managed-care accreditation--will have a significant impact on the reformed U.S. health care system.</p>","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 2","pages":"30-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21001083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health care crisis needs new approaches, not more dollars. Interview by Debra Mamorsky.","authors":"J C Goodman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An economist and analyst of public policy explains why medical spending accounts, a multitiered health care system, and elimination of government mandates would help solve the nation's health care crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 2","pages":"15-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21001087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new system for health benefits communications.","authors":"A Knoll","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Without adequate information about their health plans, consumers cannot make the best decisions about their health care. A new approach to health benefits communications provides employees with timely, accurate, complete information that allows them to make cost-effective health care choices.</p>","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 2","pages":"44-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinton's six-point reform program.","authors":"J W Duva","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Congressional approval of the president's ambitious plan for rebuilding the U.S. health care system will depend on creating coalition in both the House and the Senate and on modifications that preserve the program's over-arching goals while incorporating aspects of other proposed reform plans.</p>","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 2","pages":"4-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21001086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A plan to overcome resistance to managed care.","authors":"J L Silverstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A managed-care plan is attempting to reverse New Yorkers' negativity toward managed care. The focus is on giving consumers adequate information and access to allow them to make prudent health care choices.</p>","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 2","pages":"21-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychiatric hospitalization and managed care in conflict.","authors":"A B Lewis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The managed-care concurrent review process often results in denied or limited coverage of psychiatric inpatient care due to reviewers' misconceptions about psychiatric hospitalization and in an effort to achieve savings. For employers, such decisions may cost more in the long run.</p>","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 2","pages":"34-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21001085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient satisfaction and the cost/quality equation.","authors":"I Press, M P Malone","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Measuring patient satisfaction with health care treatment and delivery and making necessary adjustments can pay back big dividends to employers, payers, and providers in the form of cost savings and improved quality of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 2","pages":"40-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employer unwittingly creates ERISA plan. Randol v. Mid-West Nat'l Life Ins. Co.","authors":"J D Mamorsky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 2","pages":"51-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21055143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Federal official discusses reform. Interview by Debra Mamorsky.","authors":"B C Vladeck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration discusses managed competition, the cost concerns of small and large employers under such a program, and what benefits managers must do in response to health care reform.</p>","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 1","pages":"37-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21001591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cost-cutting ideas: prescription drugs.","authors":"J L Fish","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 1","pages":"10-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21001592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}