Books about managed care:
Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works, Second Edition (Managed Health Care Handbook ( Kongstvedt))Peter R. Kongstvedt
$49.95(USD)
Here is the exciting new edition everyone has been waiting for! Look to Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works, Second Edition, to provide you with a solid grounding and clear understanding of managed health care. This completely updated and revised new edition is by the foremost authority in the managed care industry, Dr. Peter Kongstvedt. Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works is enhanced with learning objectives at the beginning of every chapter and an extensive glossary of key managed health care terms. It is written in clear and concise fundamental terms, beginning with an historical overview of managed care, to organizational structures, concepts, and practices of the managed care industry.
MBA, RRt Sam P. Giordano
$99.00(USD)
Helps you familiarize yourself with the key concepts and common terms of managed care, including payment arrangements, and the four stages of managed care. You will learn the value of a respiratory therapist to managed care providers, the value of added services, and how to create career opportunities for yourself. Features Keven Shrake MA RRT and Sam P Giordano MBA RRT.
Essentials of Managed Health CarePeter R. Kongstvedt
$89.95(USD)
As the most widely-used textbook on managed care, Essentials of Managed Health Care provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of managed health care and health insurance. With a primary focus on the commercial sector, the book also addresses managed health care in Medicare, Medicaid, and military medical care. An historical overview and a discussion of taxonomy and functional differences between different forms of managed health care provide the framework for the operational aspects of the industry as well. This revision includes updates to all chapters, as well as: New chapters on disease management, case management, pharmacy benefits management, behavioral health management, prevention, and the use of data and analysis in care management. New chapters on claims administration, sales and marketing, healthcare consumerism, and the employer s view of managed health care. Completely revised chapter on the new Medicare/Medicaid laws and programs. New chapters on the military health system and managed care in a global context. New chapter on HIPAA.
Contracting in a Managed Care Environment: Market-Based Approaches (Ache Management Series,)Robert Bonney
$69.00(USD)
Managed care contracting has become a key marketing challenge. The matter of managed care raises the most basic, crucial marketing questions such as: what are your organizations core services?, how will we deliver those services?, and how will we price those services?
Contracting in a Managed Care Environment: Market-Based Approaches offers practical advice on how to tackle the tactical, operational, financial, and actuarial issues surrounding managed care. Topics discussed include: ยท
Developing a managed care strategy
Determining pricing options
Allocating funds and risk
Negotiating effective contracts
Establishing the necessary infrastructure
Managed Care: A Nursing PerspectiveAnita W. Finkelman
$60.80(USD)
For graduate courses in nursing, and junior/senior-level courses in managed care, administration and management, health care policy and ethics, case management, trends and issues, health care and nursing history, and health care financing.
This text focuses on the impact of managed care on the health care delivery system and its effect on nursing. It guides students through the maze of the managed care environment with four major themes: The Health Care Environment: What It Is and How It Is Affected by Managed Care, Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works, Issues Affecting the Results of Managed Care, Managed Care: Implications for the Nurse. The text covers a wide variety of topics related to health care organizations, reimbursement, quality care, legal and ethical issues, changes in roles and responsibilities, tools and strategies used to monitor care, and changes in clinical practice. It incorporates the most recent information available to prepare nurses for practice in the 21st century.
Minimal Service - CPT 99211$14.99(USD)
A parody on Managed Healthcare with great blues music and politically pointed lyrics