… and deliver health care services. Here we describe major types of managed care plans, outline
… of managed care plans, and provide a brief overview of their growth and transformation. …

… other types of managed care insurers use financial incentives to induce physicians to
order fewer or less expensive services, the quality of careprovided by managed care plans (MCPs) …

… This paper builds on the earlier evidence of managed care plan performance that Miller
and Luft published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1994. Miller is an …

… 1980 of enrollees in managed care and indemnity plans. … for noncomparable managed care
and indemnity plan enrollees, and … organization plan performance met the selection criteria. …

… developments in performance measurement in managed care. The Health Plan Employer
Data … Measurement of the performance of hospitals, health plans, and individual physicians is …

… health plan. Principal Findings. All managed care organizations interviewed use
performance … Many of our respondent plans use performance measures to target quality-improvement …

… The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of MA plans in … Medicare managed
care penetration. For example, in 1998, California had 24% of all Medicare managed care …

… Plans Study (CAHPS®), and the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (HOS) to track health
plan performance. … Our study suggests that interpretation of performance data is improved by …

… firms, such as guidelines based on clinical best practices, quality report cards that provide
information on provider and health plan performance, and evidence-based medicine that …

… disorders, managed care, and performance … performance measurement systems. Our group,
which was convened by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Office of Managed Care …