An Empty Toolbox: Changes in Health Plans' Approaches for Managing Costs and Care

Glen Mays, Robert E. Hurley and Joy M. Grossman

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Abstract: Examines how health plans have changed approaches for managing costs and utilization in the wake of the recent backlash against managed care. Notes that they have begun to scale back or abandon tools such as selective contracting and risk contracting in most communities.

Keywords: MANAGED CARE; PROVIDER CONTRACTING; UTILIZATION REVIEW; INSURANCE BENEFITS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19
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