Columbia/Hca: Healthcare on Overdrive

by Sandy Lutz

This text relates the story of corporate for-profit healthcare scheme, Columbia/HCA. It examines how this type of healthcare management is impacting on late-1990s healthcare in the USA and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070248044
• ISBN13: 9780070248045
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent historical review and analysis.

Lutz did a fine job encapsulating the meteoric rise and subsequent fraud investigation of the monolithic Columbia/HCA. A well balanced, ammoral perspective on the Richard Scott and Tom Frist philosophy that gives the latter '90's health care administrator a thought provoking benchmark of where the "for profit" model took us, and how it will influence our decisions tomorrow. Enjoyable read, the chapters on Lessons Learned and Implications most worthwhile.

A good analysis of FP Healthcare...Columbia will be back

The historical analysis of the FP HC industry was indeed exhaustive...The presentation of Rick Scott was very balanced...Reading it made me question why Frisk and the board didn't act sooner...Obviously they believed...if it ain't broke ($$$)..don't fix it...Good Job