Managed care plans: characteristics, growth, and premium performance

• Published in: Annual review of public health Vol. 15; p. 437
• Main Authors: Miller, R H, Luft, H S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.1994
• Subjects: Health Care Reform; Health Planning; Health Policy; Humans; Managed Care Programs - classification; Managed Care Programs - organization & administration; Marketing of Health Services; Models, Organizational; Organizational Innovation; Professional-Patient Relations; United States; United States

Over the past dozen years, network-based managed care plans have undergone a remarkable transformation. At the beginning of the 1980s, managed care plans occupied a niche in a marketplace dominated by indemnity insurance plans. By 1993, managed care plans accounted for a growing majority of health p...