The health care profession in the USA has traditionally attracted some of the best talent the
country has to offer, with medical practitioners enjoying high incomes due to employer‐paid …

Т. care offered through managed care organizations such as health maintenance
organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider orga-nizations (PPOs) has long been a …

Without question, the most important processes occurring in managed care that can be
expected to affect quality are accreditation and the effort to obtain and compare uniform …

The rapid growth of new forms of managed care in the United States in recent decades has
brought with it increasing concerns regarding the quality of care delivered by practitioners in …

The current growth of managed care type programs is undeniably driven by cost pressures.
In 1989, total health spending in the United States amounted to $604 billion, equal to $2,354 …

S ince the report of the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care (Falk et al. 1933) in 1930,
healthcare has grown steadily in cost, contribution to life, and social importance. The central …

With the highest health care costs per capita in the world and after nearly two decades of
inexorable increases in health insurance premiums, the promise of managed care has been …

J ust as JHM transforms itself, this column will examine another transforma-tion–that of the
traditional fee-for-service healthcare system to managed care. This column will highlight …

MedSpan, Inc., of Hartford, CT, is a rapidly growing managed care organization that serves
45,000 medical members through more than 4,200 physicians affiliated with 23 general and …

From HealthPartners, Inc, Minneapolis, Minn. Address correspondence to: George J. Isham,
MD, HealthPartners, Inc, PO Box 1309, Minneapolis, MN 55440-1309. E-mail: george. j …