Impact of Managed Care on the Treatment, Costs, and Outcomes of Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Health Services Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 131-152

  Bundorf, M Kate ^a   Schulman, Kevin A ^b   Stafford, Judith A ^b   Gaskin, Darrell ^c   Jollis, James G ^b   Escarce, José J ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AMI; Cost; Managed care competition; Managed care penetration; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANAGED CARE; MEDICARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICARE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RISK ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642576004     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2004.00219.x     Document Type: Article

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