The Rapid Growth of Managed Care Essay

Target Population Many health care leaders and practitioners recognize the challenges of utilization of acute care resources in areas of rapid growth. Per Potter and Hoque’s publication Texas Population Projection 2010 to 2025, completed for the Office of the State Demographer; “Much of the population growth is projected to come from the large urban counties of Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, and Travis” (2013, p. 4). “Homeless male veterans have greater medical and mental health needs compared to…

Managed Care Brooke McMichael University of Scranton Abstract This paper examines the benefits and issues with managed care. The benefits include patients receiving preventative care, lower premiums, lower costs of prescriptions, fewer, unnecessary procedures, and less paper work. Some issues with managed care include limitation on doctors that patients can choose from, restricted coverage, the possibility of under treatment, and compromised privacy. Managed care effects nursing by causing significantly…

Running head, MANAGED CARE Cynthia Norris Ashford University Tricia Devin MHA 614: Policy Formation & Leadership in Health Care Organizations Sunday, July 28, 2013 The focus on this paper is to show how analyzed research on managed care and, the issues of rising exposure to health care costs is threating the…

Alone ER "The Rapid Evolution of Health Care" By Steve Okhravi, MD, MBA, CPE July 16, 2012 Emergency care in the US is at a breaking point. Per data from The Institute of Medicine, over 1000 hospitals closed in the past few years because of the enormous cost associated with operation. There has been an increase in the number of visits to emergency rooms (ERs) to more than 120 million mostly due to those who are uninsured who, as a result, have a lack of access to primary care. As the number…

Recent studies shows that the growth rate of population has somewhat steadied from the prior projections due to various things such as increased education, along with higher death rates due to the spread of numerous diseases. Despite these recent projections, the overall trend of rapid population growth remains, creating numerous challenges for engineers. The main concern for engineers is that this rapid increase in population, along with fast paced industrial growth, places a tremendous strain on…

Managed Care Introduction Surprisingly, U.S. managed care has been in existence for almost a century. In 1910, the Western Clinic of Tacoma, Washington offered medical services through its network of doctors and nurses for the premium payment of $0.50 per member per month. Nearly one hundred years later, managed care organizations (MCOs) have changed dramatically with increased complexity and significance to the U.S. healthcare market. Aggregate revenues for MCOs in the S&P 500 index grew 30%…

States of America, and they all need effective, affordable and accessible health care coverage and services. Within decades, the scope and cost of health care has changed dramatically with increased complexity and significance to the healthcare market. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the managed care industry and examine how organizations try to control costs. Managed Care Organizations is a partnership of health care providers whose purpose is to contract with an institution (Crosson & Tollen…

Managed Care Payment System: A Critique Richard Schulz HCS 521 Health Care Infrastructure University of Phoenix Professor Jay Littleton December 9, 2006 Introduction Individual payments for health care services received have undergone many changes over the past one hundred and fifty years in this country. For many years a fee for service system was in place. This was acceptable at the time because costs were low. However, as costs began to rise, changes in the system occurred as well…

Evolution of Managed Care HCS/235 Evolution of Managed Care Managed care is a type of system that was formed to help control the costs and quality to health care services; this will give access to services to specific groups of covered patients. The system was created to help the patients (customers) to receive services without having the full financial burden (University of Washington, 1998). The managed care services’ goal is to be able to help individuals and their families by providing…

U.S. Health Care Delivery System Term Paper Margarita Blanco March.29th, 2010 Managed care was started as early as the 1900’s, the cited pioneer of the structured system of care that is known today as “Managed Care” is Dr. Michael Shadid. His goal was to help meet the health care needs of a certain groups of people. Such as: rural residents, workers and families in the lumber, mining and railroad industries; the…