Doctors steer sick patients away from capitated HMOs
...h plans with healthier-than-expected enrollees and financially risky for providers who do not or cannot risk-select, such as safety net providers. Physicians also were asked whether they felt capitated payment plans undermined their ability to offer a quality of care equal to that of other types of managed care ...Prevention Research Center to study benefits of home-based exercise in heart failure
...cation. We also hope to show that this approach is financially practical, meaning that heart failure care costs less with this program than without it." The current study builds on the success of a Chronic Disease Management Program for Heart Failure, developed by GriffinHospital, and studied by Katz and collea...Managed-Care Systems Could Save By Eliminating Restricted Access To Dermatologists
...nt of skin disease, you're better off medicallyand financially by going straight to a dermatologist. That's the conclusion of two recent studies being presented as exhibitsat the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology in New Orleans. Onestudy shows that for even common skin problems, primary care ...