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Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care
John A. Kastor
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Description for Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care
The insights that emerge from this struggle will be of value to anyone interested in how high-profile hospitals and academic medical centers operate, particularly in economically and socially challenging situations. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24, 24 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Limiting the use of specialists is one of the highest priorities of managed care, which requires patients and their primary care physicians to focus on a health maintenance approach. Preventive medicine programs, encouraged by insurers and HMOs, theoretically reduce the need for expensive specialty care and thus lower overall costs. But where does this leave specialists and their institutions? Dr. John A. Kastor has studied two leading centers in specialty care, the Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospitals of Cleveland, to learn what these institutions are doing to survive in the current era. Using the findings of more than ... Read more
Limiting the use of specialists is one of the highest priorities of managed care, which requires patients and their primary care physicians to focus on a health maintenance approach. Preventive medicine programs, encouraged by insurers and HMOs, theoretically reduce the need for expensive specialty care and thus lower overall costs. But where does this leave specialists and their institutions? Dr. John A. Kastor has studied two leading centers in specialty care, the Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospitals of Cleveland, to learn what these institutions are doing to survive in the current era. Using the findings of more than ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801881749
SKU
V9780801881749
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About John A. Kastor
John A. Kastor, M.D., is former chair of the Department of Medicine and a cardiologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is the author of two editions of Arrhythmias; Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California; and Governance of Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins, which is also available from ... Read more
Reviews for Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care
A book that sprinkles tantalizing tidbits and provides a clear-eyed view of the inner workings of Cleveland's influential medical institutions.
Diane Solov Plain Dealer 2005 A truthful and probing account... This book should be required reading for the next class of Leadership Cleveland.
Michael D. Roberts Inside Business 2006 Kastor has provided us with a meticulously researched case ... Read more
Diane Solov Plain Dealer 2005 A truthful and probing account... This book should be required reading for the next class of Leadership Cleveland.
Michael D. Roberts Inside Business 2006 Kastor has provided us with a meticulously researched case ... Read more