Bounceback: Blues thrive as markets cool toward HMOs

Health Affairs

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 24-38

  Cunningham, Robert ^b   Sherlock, Douglas B ^a  

^a Sherlock Company   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BLUE CROSS; BLUE SHIELD; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; OWNERSHIP; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036372654     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.21.1.24     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. J.K. Iglehart, "Inside California's HMO Market: A Conversation with Leonard D. Schaeffer," Health Affairs (Winter 1995): 136.
2. "Overview of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System: March 2001" (Slide presentation, BlueCross BlueShield Association, 2001), 17.
3. L. Etheredge, S.B. Jones, and L. Lewin, "What Is Driving Health System Change?" Health Affairs (Winter 1996): 97.
4. These details were culled from Conning and Company, The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans; and Barrish interview.
5. See, for example, articles by K. Thorpe, K. Titlow and E. Emanuel, and B. Vladeck in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (October 1999); R. Galvin in Health Affairs (Nov/Dec 1999); and R. Cunningham, "Will United Help Defuse Backlash by Scrapping Authorization Rules?" Medicine and Health Perspectives (15 November 1999).
6. See, for example, articles by K. Thorpe, K. Titlow and E. Emanuel, and B. Vladeck in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (October 1999); R. Galvin in Health Affairs (Nov/Dec 1999); and R. Cunningham, "Will United Help Defuse Backlash by Scrapping Authorization Rules?" Medicine and Health Perspectives (15 November 1999).
7. See, for example, articles by K. Thorpe, K. Titlow and E. Emanuel, and B. Vladeck in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (October 1999); R. Galvin in Health Affairs (Nov/Dec 1999); and R. Cunningham, "Will United Help Defuse Backlash by Scrapping Authorization Rules?" Medicine and Health Perspectives (15 November 1999).
8. . Arrangements between the Blues and providers have never been as simple and one-sided as conventional wisdom suggests, a recurrent theme in Cunningham and Cunningham, The Blues; Cain made the same observation in his interview.
9. Mahood interview.
10. A. Gosfield, "Quality and Clinical Culture: The Critical Role of Physicians in Accountable Health Care Organizations" (Chicago: American Medical Association, Organized Medical Staff Section, internal document, 1998), 23.