… Respondents from all three types of plan said they emphasized careful selection of physicians,
… Sixty-one percent of the plans responded that physicians' previous patterns of costs or …

… how provider costs … managed care plans in California and Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota,
and then describe the key results from studies on insurance and provider behavior in a price-…

… The second way that cost-sharing is used by managed care plans is as a financial incentive
to … When individual physicians contract with managed care plans, they may be paid using …

… In order to assess managed care's potential to impact cost growth or alter the nature of …
each physician of "exposure" to a particular managed care technique, we asked physicians what …

… managed care plans reduce their own healthcare costs, which may help governments redesign
reimbursements to share in cost-… cost of primary care physician hours increases, plans …

… that higher Medicaid fees are associated with higher rates of physicians accepting new …
care via comprehensive Medicaid managed care plans increased physician acceptance rates…

… California's physician fees for Medicaid patients are among the nation's … payments to
Medi-Cal managed care plans may not exceed the cost of providing the same services on a fee-for-…

… cost-control methods used by managed care plans, rather than explicit and direct attempts
by managed care plans to limit charity care provision. In other words, any type of cost control (…

… , patient dissatisfaction will increase, which in turn can increase disenrollment from the
plan. In summary, managed care strategies designed primarily to control costs may harm …

… models of physician behavior: one in which managed care … costs for excess physician
capacity; one in which physicians … incentive for physicians to participate in managed care plans is …