The bioethics literature on managed care has devoted significant attention to a broad range
of conflicts that managed care is perceived to have introduced into the practice of medicine …

Does managed care represent the death knell for the ethical provision of medical care?
Much of the current literature suggests as much. In this essay I argue that the types of ethical …

Managed care has come to the fore in the medical landscape with such rapidity, vigor, and
nearly evangelical zeal that startled witnesses to the transformation have reacted with awe …

Medicine that*'... one Pennsylvania doctor remarked... that'the physician is being exploited
for the benefit of the middleman; his services are purchased at wholesale and sold at …

Managed care poses a challenge to the traditional conceptualization of medicine and of the
physician-patient relationship. People have evaluated the merits of managed care by …

Managed care employs two business tools of managed practice that raise important ethical
issues: paying physicians in ways that impose conflicts of interest on them; and regulating …

Can physicians make the right clinical decisions when they have a financial interest in cost
containment? Will the tendency to overtreat in fee-for-service systems be replaced by a …

Medical ethics must stop being case oriented and become institutionally oriented. We
bioethicists must stop approaching problems from a philosophical perspective and adopt a …

Managed care per se is a morally neutral concept; however, as practiced today, it raises
serious ethical issues at the clinical, managerial, and social levels. This essay focuses on …

In their commentary on the recent report1 on the ethics of managed care by the American
Medical Association's (AMA) Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, Miles and Koepp2 offer …