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The US Health Care reform has not changed managed care much. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services do encourage another form of managed care by the name of Accountable Care Organizations: a group of providers will invent their own managed care protocols due to capitation payments (fixed payment per enrollee per time period---regardless ...
The Care Continuum Alliance (formerly DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance [1]) is an industry trade group of corporations and individuals that "promotes the role of population health improvement in raising the quality of care, improving health outcomes and reducing preventable health care costs for individuals with chronic conditions and those at ...
Provenzano is the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of St. Clair Specialty Physicians (SCSP) in Detroit, MI . SCSP provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care for kidney patients and is nationally recognized as a leading nephrology practice. SCSP was founded in 1977 with the addition of Provenzano to the practice of Joseph M. Beals.
Milliman Inc. Milliman, formerly Milliman & Robertson, is an international actuarial and consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington. The company was founded in 1947, by Wendell Milliman and Stuart A. Robertson and operates 59 offices internationally, with over 3,000 employees. [citation needed] Milliman is owned and managed by approximately ...
MinnesotaCare. MinnesotaCare is a health coverage program in the U.S. state of Minnesota for low-income individuals and families who do not have access to employee-sponsored health insurance and do not qualify for Medical Assistance (MA). [1] It is administered by the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
Definition. A clinical pathway is a multidisciplinary management tool based on evidence-based practice for a specific group of patients with a predictable clinical course, in which the different tasks (interventions) by the professionals involved in the patient care are defined, optimized and sequenced either by hour (ED), day (acute care) or ...
Reviews of research studies within the chiropractic community have been used to generate practice guidelines outlining standards that specify which chiropractic treatments are legitimate (i.e. supported by evidence) and conceivably reimbursable under managed care health payment systems.
Kaiser Permanente ( / ˈkaɪzər pɜːrməˈnɛnteɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is made up of three distinct but interdependent groups of entities: the Kaiser Foundation ...