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Managing Managed Care

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Authors:
  1. Michael C. Roberts

    1. University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

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  2. Linda K. Hurley

    1. Private Practice, Fort Worth, USA

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Part of the book series: Clinical Child Psychology Library (CCPL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Basics of Managed Care in Psychological Services for Children and Families

    • Michael C. Roberts, Linda K. Hurley
    Pages 1-13

  3. Problems Posed by Managed Care for Services to Children and Families

    • Michael C. Roberts, Linda K. Hurley
    Pages 15-32

  4. Legal and Ethical Issues for the Clinician in Managed Care

    • Michael C. Roberts, Linda K. Hurley
    Pages 33-58

  5. Adapting to the Managed Care Environment

    • Michael C. Roberts, Linda K. Hurley
    Pages 59-100

  6. Limiting Negative Impact of Managed Care on a Clinical Child/Pediatric Psychology Practice

    • Michael C. Roberts, Linda K. Hurley
    Pages 101-121

  7. Practicing outside Managed Care

    • Michael C. Roberts, Linda K. Hurley
    Pages 123-156

  8. Scientific Bases for Clinical Practice in Managed Care

    • Michael C. Roberts, Linda K. Hurley
    Pages 157-176

  9. Epilogue

    • Michael C. Roberts, Linda K. Hurley
    Pages 177-178

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 179-191
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The introduction of the concept of managed care into mental and physical health care appears to be a juggernaut of unparalleled impact. The two extremes of thought about this impact are (I) that managed care is a villainous foe to be resisted in order to bring back the earlier halcyon years of independence in practice decisions with greater reimbursement for psychologists' services or (2) that managed care is a laudatory attempt to restrain health care costs that are out of control and spiraling upward by rooting out mismanagement and reversing financial incentives to provide unnecessary care. The former view calls managed health care such names as "mangled care" and distributes bumper stickers stating "Just Say No to HMOs. " The latter view points to the slowdown of increases in health care expenditures and the enhancement of health care affordability and appropriateness for greater numbers of persons resulting from managed care cost-containment strategies and service review procedures. Mental or behavioral health care has been as strongly impacted as medical care under managed care. Where managed care has forced practitioners' attention to validated procedures and to examining previous wasteful practices, we ap­ plaud the movement. Where managed care has had adverse impact, we think there needs to be greater public, legal, and regulatory attention to its excesses and abuses.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

    Michael C. Roberts

  • Private Practice, Fort Worth, USA

    Linda K. Hurley

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Managing Managed Care

  • Authors: Michael C. Roberts, Linda K. Hurley

  • Series Title: Clinical Child Psychology Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5929-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45670-1Published: 30 November 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45671-8Published: 30 November 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5929-0Published: 19 November 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 191

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry

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