Five Stages of Managed Care: Strategies for Providers, HMOs, and Suppliers

by Russell C. Coile Jr.

Noted futurist Russ Coile defines the five stages of managed care and examines strategies providers and payors can use to succeed today and prepare for the healthcare delivery system of tomorrow.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567930506
• ISBN13: 9781567930504
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Health Administration Press
• Length: 253 Pages

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THe FIve Stages of Managed Care

Book Review: The Five Stages of Managed Care: Strategies for Providers, HMOs, and Suppliers by CoileRussell. C. Coile is a futurist who specializes in health care. He has used very current literature and experience to write this cutting edge book. He labels the five stages of managed care as 1. Can't spell HMO, 2. Managed care gets aggressive, 3. Managed care penetration, 4. Managed competition, and 5. Post-reform. He examines strategies that payers and providers have used to succeed and prepare for the future. He uses delivery systems to illustrate the successful strategies and pitfalls of the stages of managed care. This book is useful for graduate students studying health care and for health care administrators.