Managed care

Health care is a concerning worldwide topic in society, politics, and economics. There is a desire for the delivery of high quality health care and advanced technology services; but the resources required to fulfill this demand are scarce. Somewhere between government managed and private businesses, countries are able to provide their citizens with health care. Important services such as education, environmental protection, and social security are being compromised to pay rising health care…

Rehabilitation Counselling in a Managed-Care Environment. http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/docview/236391640/fulltextPDF/D2E838D57BE24600PQ/1?accountid=15182. (Apr/May/June 2000). This article examines the influence and pervasiveness of managed-care organizations on ethical Rehabilitation. This article is relevant because it discusses ethical problems that rehabilitation counsellors face as they practice within a managed-cared environment. Health Care Sector. Retrieved…

Medicalization is the process of identifying certain human conditions/behaviors as medical conditions/diseases/disorders. 2. Conrad identifies biotechnology, consumers, and managed care as the three engines driving medicalization. He begins by discussing the transitioning role of biotechnology in medicalization from once a facilitator to now a driving force. Specifically, the development of new drugs and technologies have led the way to increase medicalization. Medicalization of conditions…

23, 2009 President Barack Obama signed the patient protection and affordable care act, one of the most influential and important health care reform act in the history of United States healthcare delivery. One of the most important goals of affordable care act is to improve access to quality and affordable health care. The key important provision of affordable care act to increase access and provide universal health care coverage is health insurance exchanges, which is an online marketplace for…

The third hybrid model is a mix of the managed care enterprise and the community development agency. In the managed care enterprise, disease management is under the control of one entity, the health insurance company. Physicians are under contract in the organization. Vertical integration is strong with the enterprise, but horizontal integration does not have as strong of a presence or can be absent all together. The overall bottom line of the enterprise is costs. The community development…

Moreover, the Care Select Health System a smaller hospital is frequently the targets of acquisition do not have access to the same level of group purchasing organization (GPO)-provided discounts when operating independently, with relatively small purchase volumes. In addition to the greater price discounts that can be achieved through larger purchases, central warehousing and distribution of supplies for hospitals in a common system (particularly those within a reasonably proximate geography)…

Health Care System United States health care system is a privatized health care system compared to most of the developed countries that have national health care system. U.S. health care system is a massive and complex system, which involve range of organizations and individuals. The health care system consists of multiple subsystem such as managed care, military care system, and the vulnerable populations. The manager care system which is the widely used form of health care insurance, in…

Health care access is very important. It allows all people to get care from many different places around the world. There are many ways that access to health care impacts the people who use it. Heath care access impacts, the physical, social, and mental status of people, the prevention of disease and disability, treatment of conditions, quality of life, and life expectancy (Access of Health Services, 2016). For people to have access to quality health care it is vital that health insurance…

noted that many of their patients were utilizing the emergency room as a form of primary care. To address the growing issue, a voluntary medical assistance program known as the Mercy Health Plan was created. The concept of this plan was a connection between members and a primary care physician that would encourage consistent health care rather than waiting until something became so severe it required emergency care. This plan continued to grow and in 1996 formed a partnership with AmeriHealth to…

It’s no secret that the business of health care is a BIG business, being 15% of the gross national product. This creates loads of pressure on hospital/facility commanders to properly and sufficiently run and manage their organizations. Having consistent services, quality, keeping up with consumer demands and proper reimbursement is a key to survival. I think we all can agree that having a paper based system has the power to complicate the quality of our services, organization, consistency and…