Managed Healthcare: US Evidence and Lessons for the NHS (State of Health) - Hardcover

Robinson, Ray; Steiner, Andrea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0335199496 ISBN 13: 9780335199495

Publisher: Open University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Healthcare in the United States has undergone a managed-care revolution, which has transformed the way in which health services are financed and delivered. Arising from this experience, techniques such as utilzation management, physician profiling and disease management are attracting attention in this field. Many management consultants, pharmaceutical companies and policy analysts advocate managed care as the way forward for improving the performance of healthcare systems. This is a systematic review of the research evidence on managed care in the US, assessing its performance in terms of its impact on utilization, costs, health promotion and screening, quality of care, and other key indicators. The authors then consider the development of managed care approaches in the NHS, with particular reference to the early research evidence on the primary care-based, total purchasing pilot projects.

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About the Author

Ray Robinson is Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of Southampton. Prior to joining the Institute he was Deputy Director of the King's Fund Institute, London. Earlier in his career he worked as an economist in HM Treasury and at several universities in the UK, US and Australia.

Andrea Steiner is Lecturer in Health Policy at the Institute for the Health Policy Studies, University of Southampton. Before moving to England in 1993, Dr Steiner worked at RAND in California and was Assistant Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Medicine. Her background is in public policy analysis, with specific interest in gerontology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335199496
• ISBN 13: 9780335199495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224