| Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Hyman, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0387257519 ISBN-13: 9780387257518 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition systematically examines the American health care system from a competition-oriented perspective. The volume surveys the performance of each major sector of the health care system, and identifies impediments to more effective competition. Improving Healthcare examines such issues as competition v. regulation, public and private sector approaches to health care financing, cross-subsidies, licensure, provider market concentration, financial and clinical integration, payment for performance, quality, pharmacy benefit managers, direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals, certificates of need, mandates, unionization, the significance of organizational status (nonprofit v. for-profit), and the role of antitrust and consumer protection in health care. It offers concrete recommendations to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of the American health care marketplace. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - General - Medical | Administration - Business & Economics | Business Law |
| Dewey: 338.473 |
| LCCN: 2006295942 |
| Series: Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.76 lbs) 431 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition systematically examines the American health care system from a competition-oriented perspective. The volume surveys the performance of each major sector of the health care system, and identifies impediments to more effective competition. Improving Healthcare examines such issues as competition v. regulation, public and private sector approaches to health care financing, cross-subsidies, licensure, provider market concentration, financial and clinical integration, payment for performance, quality, pharmacy benefit managers, direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals, certificates of need, mandates, unionization, the significance of organizational status (nonprofit v. for-profit), and the role of antitrust and consumer protection in health care. It offers concrete recommendations to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of the American health care marketplace. |