Managing managed care

Managed care creates several dilemmas for the physician executive. Effective management is hindered by lack of analytical tools that stem from current limitations in outcomes research and treatment protocols, altered financial incentives that are controversial and that seem at odds with traditional...

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Published inClinical performance and quality health care Vol. 4; no. 4; p. 200
Main Author Moses, 3rd, H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.10.1996
Subjects
Conflict of Interest
Ethics, Institutional
Financial Management
Managed Care Programs - economics
Managed Care Programs - organization & administration
Negotiating
Physician Executives
Physician Incentive Plans
Practice Patterns, Physicians
Social Values
United States
United States
Health Care and Public Health
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Summary:Managed care creates several dilemmas for the physician executive. Effective management is hindered by lack of analytical tools that stem from current limitations in outcomes research and treatment protocols, altered financial incentives that are controversial and that seem at odds with traditional incentives, and values that create conflict between the needs and expectations of individual patients and populations or groups under managed care. The executive must manage a process that resolves apparent conflict in an explicit ethical framework that acknowledges the limitations of data, with full awareness of the potential conflict between financial incentives and clinical judgement.
ISSN:1063-0279