"Carving Out" Conditions from Global Capitation Rates: Protecting High-Cost Patients, Physicians, and Health Plans in a Managed Care Environment

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 4, Issue 6 SUPPL., 1998, Pages 797-806

  Maguire, Ann M ^a,b   Powe, Neil R ^a   Starfield, Barbara ^a   Andrews, John ^a   Weiner, Jonathan P ^a   Anderson, Gerard F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPITATION FEE; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CAPITATION FEE; CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); STATE HEALTH PLANS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0032086563     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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