Searching for a business case for quality in Medicaid managed care.

abstract：:This article profiles the premerger marketing, management, and mission characteristics of the combined Columbia and Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) entity relative to local market hospitals. The findings show that the Columbia/HCA hospitals had fewer Medicaid patients, lower proportion of outpatient revenues, hi...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： McCue MJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated physicians' acceptance of managed care using data from Connecticut physicians. We grouped physicians' attitudinal responses on three dimensions and applied an institutional distance framework to evaluate factors that influence physicians' acceptance of managed care practices. Our results demonstrate the p...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Floyd SW,Kramer JA,Born PH

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specialty care institutions will face many concerns during the remainder of this decade. Increased intermediary and community education, establishing reliable benchmarks, understanding and dealing with a competitive marketplace, and establishing improved professional productivity are some of the major challenges. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Eckenhoff EA,Kerstetter AL,White AR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the pace of health sector transformation accelerates, the importance of leadership continues to grow across all health professions. Advances in a variety of disciplines can inform effective leadership development. However, at present, most health sector leadership competency models do not incorporate thes...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Garman AN,Standish MP,Wainio JA

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vendors of hip and knee implants court orthopedic surgeons to adopt their products. Hospitals, which have to pay for these products, now court the same surgeons to help reduce the number of vendors and contain implant costs. PURPOSES:This study measures the surgeon's perceived alignment of interests with bo...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Burns LR,Housman MG,Booth RE Jr,Koenig A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scholars have vigorously debated the role of stakeholders since Freeman's 1984 landmark work. This article argues that an accurate assessment of relative power levels can enable stakeholders to accept their proper roles and responsibilities in planning and implementing strategy and enabling Top Management Teams to mor...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Daake D,Anthony WP

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care researchers and managers have viewed physicians traditionally through three major lenses, that is, as professionals, suppliers, and caregivers. This article makes a case for another lens, that of the physician as worker. The worker perspective complements these existing perspectives, serves as a generative...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Hoff TJ

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research compares the mean severity level, length of stay, and cost of Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO) and Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) inpatients. The results suggest Medicare HMOs have healthier inpatients and shorter lengths of stay, but more costly per-day utilization. These findings are cont...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Revere L,Large J,Langland-Orban B

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numbering close to 300,000 nurse managers represent the largest segment of the health care management workforce. Their effectiveness is, in part, influenced by their job satisfaction. PURPOSE:We examined factors associated with job satisfaction of novice frontline nurse managers. METHODOLOGY/APPROACH:We us...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Djukic M,Jun J,Kovner C,Brewer C,Fletcher J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Value-based leadership--linking "managership" and leadership approaches--is needed to meet today's ever-proliferating challenges to the fundamental philosophy and mission of health care organizations. To work, however, it requires important changes from everyone in the organization. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Brozovich JP,Shortell SM

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study at 55 hemodialysis facilities, turnover was not associated with organizational size, location, or ownership but varied according to administrative strategies. Technician turnover (32 percent) was lower in facilities with shorter hours and choice of work schedule even though workload was higher. Clerical tur...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Bame SI

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nursing home administrators (NHAs) are in key positions to improve nursing home quality. NHAs require state-level licensure, which involves passing a national NHA licensure examination and fulfilling state-level licensure requirements that vary widely across states. With multiple pathways to NHA licensure, l...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Siegel EO,Leo MC,Young HM,Castle NG

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Implementation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) is currently underway, but there is limited empirical evidence on the merits of the ACO model. PURPOSE:The aim was to study the associations between delivery system characteristics and ACO competencies, including centralization strategies to manage org...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Chukmaitov A,Harless DW,Bazzoli GJ,Carretta HJ,Siangphoe U

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was conducted to determine community health concerns, interests, and perceived health needs. The survey data were used in the selection of health promotion interventions. An index of Concern/Information Need/Participation Willingness (CIP) was developed as a model for planning, implementing, marketing, and ev...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Lichter ML,Arens PL,Reinstein N,Simonds SK,Heeringa SG

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The economics of cost containment, growing competition, and the introduction of new technology are forcing major changes on the health insurance industry. This transformation will impact the hospital industry in significant ways, hastening its evolution from a cottage industry to a modern corporate structure. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Higgins CW,Meyers ED

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The presence of hospital-based palliative care programs has risen over time in the United States. Nevertheless, organizational and environmental factors that contribute to the presence of hospital-based palliative care programs are unclear. PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to examine the role of organizati...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Chisholm L,Weech-Maldonado R,Landry AY,Epané JP

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of typologies have been developed in the strategic management literature to categorize strategies that an organization can pursue at the business level. Extensive research has established Porter's generic strategies of (1) cost leadership, (2) differentiation, (3) differentiation focus, (4) cost focus, and (5...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Torgovicky R,Goldberg A,Shvarts S,Bar Dayan Y,Onn E,Levi Y,BarDayan Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article proposes a vision, strategies, and structure for the organizations that will replace community hospitals. The vision must embrace health rather than health care, and cost reduction as an explicit, measured goal. Strategies must include immediate cost savings, but also longer-term revision of organizations...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Griffith JR

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although health care managers pay a great deal of attention to marketing, there appears to be limited substantive action. As more organizations successfully implement the marketing concept, other organizations will follow suit and marketing will become more prevalent throughout the health care industry. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Clarke RN,Shyavitz L

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The resource-based view of the firm suggests that organizations must obtain valuable resources from external sources to obtain lasting benefits. Professional associations today exist in every industry and offer resources to assist their affiliates' organizations and individual members. Today, there are more ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Walston SL,Khaliq AA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The United States has invested nearly a billion dollars in creating community health information organizations (HIOs) to foster health information exchange. Community HIOs provide exchange services to health care organizations within a distinct geographic area. While geography is a key organizing principle f...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Vest JR

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, health professionals lacked incentives to integrate internal management processes, depending instead on external quality assurance and regulatory standards. Competitive markets and increased regulatory pressures now encourage managers to reorient systems from a cost-driven reimbursement approach to the...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Milakovich ME

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antitrust and competitive issues are intertwined with efforts to control health care costs. Whether hospital competition holds down costs is an issue of much controversy and is the topic of this article. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that hospitals compete primarily on a nonprice basis. This suggests...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Nguyen NX,Derrick FW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The implementation science literature has contributed important insights regarding the influence of formal policies and practices on health care innovation implementation, whereas informal implementation policies and practices have garnered little attention. The broader literature suggests that informal impl...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： DiMartino LD,Birken SA,Hanson LC,Trogdon JG,Clary AS,Weinberger M,Reeder-Hayes K,Weiner BJ

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scholars have noted a disconnect between the level at which structure is typically examined (the organization) and the level at which the relevant coordination takes place (service delivery). Accordingly, our understanding of the role structure plays in care coordination is limited. PURPOSE:In this article,...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Louis CJ,Clark JR,Gray B,Brannon D,Parker V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health care organizations (HCOs) invest in knowledge transfer to promote improved patient outcomes; however, these investments prove costly when health care workers with enhanced knowledge and skills leave to seek better employment opportunities. PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to examine the impact of in...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Fleig-Palmer MM,Rathert C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient-centered innovation is spreading at the federal and state levels. A conceptual framework can help frame real-world examples and extract systematic learning from an array of innovative applications currently underway. The statutory, economic, and political environment in Washington State offers a spec...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Hernandez SE,Conrad DA,Marcus-Smith MS,Reed P,Watts C

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For almost a decade, public and private organizations have pressured hospitals to improve their patient safety records. Since 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has no longer been reimbursing hospitals for secondary diagnoses not reported during the point of admission. This ruling has motivat...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Fareed N,Mick SS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Law and the professional standards of doctors, nurses and aides control the performance of their jobs and their response to directives of the institution's chief administrative officer. They might be surprised if he asked them to sit down together and discuss how a particular problem should be handled--but it's a big ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Levinson H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient management teams are able to diagnose and begin to solve their own problems with the help of a self-instructional health team development (HTD) program. In this case, the focus is on those task-related issues which limit team effectiveness. ...

journal_title：Health care management review

authors： Plovnick M,Fry R,Rubin I,Stearns N

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00