Product Description: David Samuels, a leading authority on financial models in healthcare, draws on his multidisciplinary background in all aspects of managed care to provide an expansive yet detailed perspective of this complex field. Grounded in evidence-based modeling, the book’s multidisciplinary focus puts the spotlight on core concepts from the standpoints of health plans, hospitals, physician practice, and their respective integrated network models...read more

Product Description: How does a medical practice thrive in a business environment where the margin of management error has all but disappeared? Profit margins are being squeezed by declining reimbursement rates, capitation plans, gamesmanship on the part of the payors, and increasing operating costs...read more

Providing a sensible, objective, consumer's guide to travel, these easy-to-use travel handbooks provide useful evaluations of local hotels, attractions, and restaurants in all price ranges, honest advice on local attractions that are worth the time and money, detailed maps, tips on special events and festivals, and extensive information on local shopping, sports, nightlife, and other activities.

Product Description: Managed Care Pharmacy Practice, Second Edition offers information critical to the development and operation of a managed care pharmacy program. The text also covers the changes that have taken place within the delivery of pharmacy services, as well as the evolving role of pharmacists...read more

Product Description: Keep up with employer demand for wellness A recent study found that more employers are demanding wellness as part of their employee offerings. The challenge has been issued for disease management companies and health plans to incorporate wellness offerings into their packages to employers...read more

Toward a 21st Century Health System is a collection of thoughtful analyses that explore a key element of the health care delivery system¾physician group practices. Edited by policy experts Alain Enthoven and Laura Tollen, and written by a blue ribbon panel of health policy scholars and leaders including Stephen Shortell, Hal Luft, Donald Berwick, James Robinson, and Helen Darling, this resource addresses a variety of topics, including  Organized delivery systems Quality of care in prepaid group practice versus other types of managed care The role of physician leadership and culture in group practice Prepaid group practice and the formation of national health policy This comprehensive resource also covers such topics as pharmacy benefit management, technology assessment, health services research, and employer purchasing of benefits– all as they relate to prepaid group practice.  

More than four hundred alphabetically arranged entries discuss various aspects of the conflict between science and religion.

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Product Description: The must-have text for every public health practitioner involved in ma naged care and public health. Managed Care and Public Health reveals t he hottest trends and issues emerging among managed care and public he alth organizations, and examines a wide range of real-life partnership s with the private sector...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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More than four hundred alphabetically arranged entries discuss various aspects of the conflict between science and religion.

A reference guide for a Disney World vacation looks at how to pick the best hotels, rides, and shows for families with children of all ages, making what could be an intimidating experience fun and easy. Original.