Rapid changes for academic medical centers

Article Abstract:

Many academic medical centers are already planning for the changes they will need to implement to compete in an era of managed health care plans. Academic medical centers are responsible for training all physicians and provide almost half the charity care in the U.S. They may need to downsize, reorganize and operate more efficiently if they want to compete with community hospitals that are offering their services to large health plan purchasers such as employers and governments. Several medical schools such as Stanford and Johns Hopkins have already formed new organizations called clinical service or physician-hospital organizations. These organizations will bid for contracts to provide managed care plans. Many academic medical centers are affiliating themselves with community physicians or buying their practices. These physicians would then refer patients to the medical center for specialized treatment.

Social aspects, Planning, Managed care plans (Medical care), Social networks, Hospitals, University, University hospitals

---

The American health care system: Medicaid

Article Abstract:

Medicaid has not been able to achieve the vision of the congressmen who initially created the program. Medicaid was supposed to provide the same health care to the poor as privately insured Americans received. However, most poor people covered by Medicaid receive health care in clinics and public hospitals. In addition, Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals do not completely cover their costs. And many states have shifted patients into managed care programs. In 1997, 16% of the American population was uninsured, and most are employed. Many of these Americans do not qualify for Medicaid.

Analysis, Medicaid

---

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Article Abstract:

The responsibilities and proposed reforms of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are reviewed. This is the new name for the US Health Care Financing Administration, which pays for the care of 70 million US Medicare and Medicaid recipients.

Prevention, Medicare fraud, United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: The case for reassessment of health care technology: once is not enough
• Abstracts: The health of Persian Gulf veterans. Transforming the Veterans health care system - the 'new VA'. Results of a Nationwide Veterans Affairs Initiative to Align Graduate Medical Education and Patient Care
• Abstracts: Waiting for a healthy return. Return ticket. Trading places
• Abstracts: Leiomyosarcoma in a premenopausal patient after uterine artery embolization. Gluteal necrotizing myofascitis: an unusual delayed complication of abdominal sacrocolpopexy
• Abstracts: Head and neck cancer. Clonal origin of bladder cancer

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.