A CEO of a for-profit
managed care organization explained his experience: The difficulty is that market pressures are extremely short term.
The CDC sees the interest by
managed care organizations as a potentially big step toward achieving universal, routine screening in the United States.
Other indicators can reflect a
managed care organization's financial status indirectly.
"Employers must ask a number of questions to determine how the
managed care organization defines a quality provider," Ms.
The alleged unreported discounts to the
managed care organization allowed Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert to retain over $20 million owed to the Medicaid program.
of Hartford, Connecticut, shows that more physicians are joining group practices and
managed care organizations, which means individual doctors will no longer be the primary targets of malpractice suits.
However, unless the
managed care organization has access to comprehensive, community-based, client-centered programs, there will not be either improved treatment or cost savings.
Although no
managed care organizations have been certified yet by the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission, one prominent applicant already has begun overseeing care for more than a quarter of Arkansas' eligible workers.
Furthermore, today's HMOs and other
managed care organizations treat relatively few low-income or other complex patients.
Medical malpractice, long the domain of doctors, nurses and hospitals, is now being charged against health plans,
managed care organizations and insurance companies.
The data were compiled from a longstanding, centralized FOBT screening program sponsored by a
managed care organization. Members of the
managed care organization aged 50 and older received FOBT kits on a rolling annual basis.