ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

The economics of cost containment, growing competition, and the introduction of new technology are forcing major changes on the health insurance industry. This transformation will impact the hospital industry in significant ways, hastening its evolution from a cottage industry to a modern corporate structure.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

The preferred provider organization (PPO), an alternative delivery system currently embraced by the employer sector, has been growing at a phenomenal rate for the past few years. It is necessary to examine the issues an employer should consider when deciding whether to offer a PPO option, and to look at organizational issues such as PPO structure, quality, utilization review mechanisms, and benefits design.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

The prospective payment system has many benefits and risks for the hospital industry. A quality-enhancing bidding process can be used to redistribute any unfair windfall profits, and foster quality care, effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Hospital-health care plan affiliations are designed to use idle hospital service capacity while minimizing the resulting financial risks.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Many cost containment programs are adversarial to physicians and therefore have limited success. Meaningful alliances with physicians hold the promise of cost containment without compromising quality of care.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Hospitals, like other employers, offer health care benefits to their employees. Cost savings can be realized when hospitals offer packages that resemble those provided by business employers. Business packages explain variance in cost savings more than employee characteristics do.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

The key individual in health care management in the new multidimensional health care system will be the hospital administrator, the person responsible for the overall management and direction of a single health care institution in a community. This person will have to deal with a vertically integrated institution and changing delivery and financing mechanisms.

ISSN:0361-6274    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1986

数据来源: OVID