Managed care
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Used for
health maintenance organization
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See for
HMO, medical specialty, primary care
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Scope Note
organized health care service in which provider must seek prior approval of the decision to treat a patient; if approved , the location, amount and type of care to be provided is agreed upon.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- The overall aim of managed care is to place administrative control over cost of, quality of, or access to health care services in a specific population of covered enrollees.
- They argue that managed care is just the ticket for what allegedly ails these programs, and their arguments are succeeding.
- com September 26, 2005 Managed Care Is Neither by Michael Yonchenko (Swans - September 26, 2005) You can have a great laugh in hospitals.
- We propose to examine whether the market share for managed care is associated with the quality of care and choice of treatments provided to Medicare patients diagnosed with breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer.
- Largely in reaction to spiraling costs, managed care is becoming the dominant health care delivery system.
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