JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, vol. 277, n° 7, 1997, pages 560-563, 18 réf., ISSN 0098-7484, USA
The development of managed care is described as an unexpected product of competition between public and private purchasers of health care.
Managed care is a series of purchasing techniques that employers have applied to reduce the cost of their employees'health benefits.
Its most significant use has been as a device for bargaining with individual health care providers by encouraging or requiring employees to purchase health care services from a select set of providers.
Selective contracting has broken a 40-year-old barrier to price competition among health care providers, who have responded to this negotiating tactic by forming or joining larger organizational units to strengthen their bargaining power.
Although the so-called managed care revolution has reduced the rate of increase in health care costs by creating a more competitive price environment, it is simply a start toward a more effective health care market.
It is very much a work in progress that will affect and be affected by both political and market changes occurring over the remainder of this century.
Mots-clés BDSP : Système santé, Service soins & consultation, Secteur privé, Secteur public, Homme
Mots-clés Pascal : Système santé, Service santé, Secteur privé, Secteur public, Compétition, Soin intégré, Homme
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Health system, Health service, Private sector, Public sector, Competition, Managed care, Human
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Inist-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
Cote : 97-0192050
Code Inist : 002B30A11. Création : 21/05/1997.