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- Provides a comprehensive overview on managed care institutions and instruments and their key success factors
- Combines the theoretical background of healthcare management instruments with practical case studies from various organisation types
- Allows a broad audience (students of healthcare-related courses, providers, insurers or other interested stakeholders) to better understand managed care approaches?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basic Ideas of Managed Care
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Managed Care Organisations and Products
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Managed Care Instruments
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Evaluation of Managed Care
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About this book
Within the international discussion on the structure of healthcare systems, managed care is an increasingly important topic. Over more than twenty years managed care approaches have fundamentally influenced healthcare systems in terms of patient orientation, efficiency, and quality. Experts assume that up to 20% of healthcare expenses can be saved by applying high-quality managed care approaches. By using suitable organisational forms and management principles, not only can costs be reduced, but the quality of medical service provision can be augmented. Managed care is therefore much more than a cost-cutting strategy. The goal of this book is to offer a systematic overview of the organisational forms and management instruments implemented in managed care.
Advocates consider managed care to be a logical and necessary developmental step in modern healthcare systems. An increase in quality and at the same time a reduction of costs is not seen as contradictory but rather as consistent. Therefore, managed care is a response to changed challenges in the provision of healthcare.​
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Volker Eric Amelung
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Healthcare Management
Book Subtitle: Managed Care Organisations and Instruments
Authors: Volker Eric Amelung
Series Title: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38712-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52459-6Published: 27 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2192-4333
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4341
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Original German edition published by Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2012
Topics: Health Care Management, Health Administration, Health Economics, Public Health