Managed Care in the Inner City: The Uncertain Promise for Providers, Plans, and Communities

Managed Care in the Inner City presents a well–documented and candid look at how the managed care revolution has affected low–income and other vulnerable populations who live in inner cities. This groundbreaking book offers a thorough review of the drastic changes to the way health care is delivered in America′s cities and presents sensible recommAndations for creating programs that will satisfy public health agAndas and also succeed from a policy and health care management perspective.

Spis treści:
Tables and Figures.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
The Authors.
Chapter 1: Managed Care and the Ecology of the Inner City.
The Inner City Environment.
Access to the Health System.
Chapter 2: Managed Care, the Safety Net, and Inner City Residents.
Managed Care Organizations: Benefits and Concerns for the Inner City.
Managed Care Respond to Inner City Populations and Their Health Care Needs.
Safety Net Providers, Managed Care and Vulnerable Populations.
Chapter 3: Implementing Managed Care in the Inner City.
Community Health and Public Health Issues.
Physicians and Allied Health Professionals.
The Traditional Providers of Care in the Inner City and Their Integration with Managed Care.
Chapter 4: Integrating Urban Teaching Hospitals into Managed Care.
Old Questions, New Issues for Urban Teaching Hospitals and Their Medical Schools.
Urban Teaching Hospitals and Managed Care: Results from a National Survey.
Chapter 5: Financing Managed Care for Urban Populations.
Capitation Rates, Risk Adjustment, and Adverse Selection.
The Challenges of Attaining Stability in Enrollment.
The Special Circumstances of the Uninsured.
The Threat and the Opportunity for Inner City Safety Net Hospitals.

Nota biograficzna:
DENNIS P. ANDRULIS is director of the Office of Urban Populations at the New York Academy of Medicine. He is a contributing editor to the American Journal of Med icine and a founding board member of the American International Health Alliance, which creates health care partnerships with U.S. and Central and Eastern European providers of health care. He has published extensively on a broad range of health policy issues. Andrulis is former president and CEO of the National Public Health and Hospital Institute. BETSY CARRIER is vice president for managed care at the National Association of Public Hospitals & Health Systems and has worked in health care management for over 20 years. She has extensive experience in developing managed care plans and case management programs for individuals covered by both Medicaid and commercial insurance.

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Managed Care in the Inner City presents a well–documented and candid look at how the managed care revolution has affected low–income and other vulnerable populations who live in inner cities. This groundbreaking book offers a thorough review of the drastic changes to the way health care is delivered in America′s cities and presents sensible recommAndations for creating programs that will satisfy public health agAndas and also succeed from a policy and health care management perspective.