Prologue: In anticipation of reforms at either the state or the national level and in response to
rising costs, health care organizations are changing rapidly.“Managed care” has taken on …

An organized delivery system is a network of organizations that provides or arranges to
provide a coordinated continuum of services to a defined population and is willing to be held …

The US health care system is restructuring at a dizzying pace. In many parts of the country,
managed care has moved into third-generation models emphasizing capitated payment for …

Dr. Francis Crosson argues that two interacting sets of changes need to occur: movement
away from fee-for-service payment of physicians toward prospective payment, and …

Prologue: Many private and public entrepreneurs are busily building large corporate
systems to compete in the rapidly evolving world of managed care. By contrast, California …

Context: Policy discussions about improving the US health care system increasingly
recognize the need to strengthen its capacities for delivering public health services. A better …

Describing, evaluating, and conducting research on the questions raised by comparative
effectiveness research and characterizing care delivery organizations of all kinds, from …

Prologue: More than any other single figure, Alain Enthoven is responsible for establishing
and promoting the ideas that are the intellectual underpinnings of America's rapidly …

Accountable care organizations are intended to improve the quality and lower the cost of
health care through several mechanisms, such as disease management programs, care …

Today's" virtually" and vertically integrated health systems increasingly are much better
positioned than the multihospital systems of the 1980s to respond to the healthcare …