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D C Coddington

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PubMed1988

Understanding economic modeling aids in decision making.

With the problems some hospitals are facing in raising capital, the importance of careful economic analyses increases. Four economic models, the demand model, economic feasibility model, economic impact model, and econometric model, can all be used by the healthcare industry to perform a thorough analysis. By doing economic analyses, hospitals will be able to more effectively allocate scarce financial resources and identify potential returns and risks associated with investments.

Decision Making, Organizational↗
PubMed1987

Diversification offers new opportunities for health care.

In this excerpt from the book, Market-Driven Strategies in Healthcare, healthcare diversification is explored. The various reasons, survival strategies, and expectations for a new venture are outlined. Although many new ventures are struggling and profits are being generated slowly, there are many potentially successful opportunities available to the aggressive healthcare system. With careful screening and selection, diversification efforts by an organization can present promising results.

Evaluation Studies as Topic↗
PubMed1987

Employers looking for more than health care cost containment.

Now is the time to chart strategies for the future. One market which needs reevaluation is the behavior of employers toward health plans. The authors through a review of both secondary and their own research show that most of the efforts at cost containment are the interests of large firms. The article summarizes what employers are currently seeking from health plans and how they are evaluating the growing number of alternatives available to them.

Cost Control↗
PubMed1986

What physicians expect from their hospitals.

What are physicians' greatest concerns in today's environment? What kind of support do they expect from hospitals? This article discusses what interview sessions with 175 physicians reveal about those concerns and expectations, and what hospitals can do to address them.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
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Strategic implications of healthcare reform for mental health providers.

While most of the recent national attention on healthcare reform has focused on physicians, acute-care hospitals, and the insurance industry, what about mental healthcare providers? Where do psychiatric hospitals, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental healthcare professionals fit into the healthcare payment system of the future? For example, if the United States ends up with what is called universal access--a payment source for all Americans--will it include mental health benefits? The stakes are high; one quarter of the American population either has no health insurance or is covered by Medicaid. Many current reform proposals include tort reform; but how would it affect mental healthcare providers? Will managed care--primarily health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs)--be a part of the reshaping of the United States healthcare system? This article has three objectives: To summarize the various healthcare reform proposals and provide a description of the key elements anticipated in the most likely reform package. To consider the strategic implications of payment reform for the mental healthcare industry. To identify strategies for mental healthcare providers that are likely to be useful regardless of the shape of healthcare reform.

Cost Control↗
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Integrated health care systems: the key characteristics.

Cooperation among the traditionally adversarial factions of physicians and hospitals has arisen in the early 1990s to develop the integrated health care system. Authors Dean C. Coddington, Keith D. Moore and Elizabeth A. Fischer explain how these two groups have been joined in the integration by an unlikely participant: health plans.

Comprehensive Health Care↗
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In pursuit of integration.

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Chief Executive Officers, Hospital↗
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Making integrated health care work.

The primary purpose of forming integrated health care systems should be to increase value added for payers and patients. Without this kind of focus on customer needs, integration efforts are likely to fail. The authors identify seven factors that make up the value-added continuum for health care purchasers and providers. The article assesses several of the major strategies pursued by integrating systems (e.g., primary care network development, health plan partnership arrangements) against value-added criteria. The major finding: integrated health care has the potential to bring substantial added value to customers.

Community Networks↗
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Physician leaders in integrated delivery.

It's common to hear the analogy comparing organizing physicians to "herding cats." Actual practice proves the adage false. Physicians are taking leadership roles in the formation of integrated systems across the country. Their input is proving invaluable. Based on case studies of integrated systems, the authors answer commonly asked questions about physician leaders, including: Should physician leaders be specilists? Should they continue to practice? and What will expensive physicians do to our administrative overhead?

Delivery of Health Care, Integrated↗