Medical Errors In Managed Care

Sometime mistakes take place, such as failure to check or record a lab finding, ordering the wrong drug, or entering a lab finding in the wrong patient’s chart. These mistakes are usually not enough to guarantee an occurrence of harm. Many serious medical errors result from violations of recognized standards of practice. Large sectors of the health care business are dominated by nonprofit providers. Their payments are made by third parties, the government, private insurers and self-insurers. Managed care organization needs to know how to utilize health care policies and control costs health care for their consumers.

By definition, health system seeks to improve health outcomes, but to do it must ensure that individual and families are protected against financial hardship when seeking …show more content…
That cost could be rather large, even though the change in the amount of the good is small. For example, suppose services in a hospital safety personnel have gradually become disabused of a long-standing but incorrect belief: that harm-causing medical errors, such as wrong-side surgeries or retained surgical instruments, result from a single individual doing something wrong. The organizations might identify and manage unsafe practice deviations before they become normalized and threaten to compromise the interests of patient safety, quality care, and employee morale. This is a policy violation. The consumers are unsatisfied with the facility. This change may end cost treatment or a stay in the facility, because of the violation. These violations cost the facility the average share of the costs in treatment. This perhaps, impacts high dependency care that took place towards the beginning of a treatment or inpatient stay in the facility. As an economist, he or she has to consider all of balance and determints to attempt to predict the outcomes of policies and