Amazon.com description: Product Description: Coleman (health administration, Western Connecticut State University) provides a supplemental text for professional nurses, social workers, physicians, therapists, case managers, and health administrators. The text covers cost containment concepts and tools used in different forms of healthcare organization, including case management, health maintenance organization, and disease state management. It also contains recent data and information on managed care strategies, case management techniques, and programs introduced and led by mature HMOs, health care benefit management entities, and pharmaceutical companies. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)