Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice
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ISBN: 0787973092 / Publisher: Jossey-Bass, March 2004
Health care in the US must offer alternatives to the free-choice, fee-for-service, solo-practice financing and delivery model, say researchers and practitioners in various fields of health care. They discuss the potential and actual performance of one such alternative, prepaid group practice, as envisioned and experienced by health care organizations over the past half century. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Toward a 21st Century Health System is a collection of thoughtful analyses that explore a key element of the health care delivery system¾physician group practices. Edited by policy experts Alain Enthoven and Laura Tollen, and written by a blue ribbon panel of health policy scholars and leaders including Stephen Shortell, Hal Luft, Donald Berwick, James Robinson, and Helen Darling, this resource addresses a variety of topics, including Organized delivery systemsQuality of care in prepaid group practice versus other types of managed careThe role of physician leadership and culture in group practicePrepaid group practice and the formation of national health policyThis comprehensive resource also covers such topics as pharmacy benefit management, technology assessment, health services research, and employer purchasing of benefits– all as they relate to prepaid group practice.
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