"This highly readable text gives a broad but detailed picture of how health care is organized and dispensed in the United States."-Annals of Internal Medicine, on the First Edition The #1 text on health policy, this well-known book provides a short introduction to U.S. health care policy by two leading experts who are themselves practicing physicians. The Fourth Edition features the latest information on cost containment, health insurance, managed care, hospital payment, and the new two-tier model of physician reimbursement.
Understanding Health Policy?: A Clinical A:pproach (ie)
Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy.
THE 1980S: THE REVOLT OF THE PURCHASERS In 1989, Ryan Neighbor, Jerry Neighbor's brother, became concerned when he noticed blood in his stools; he decided to see a physician. Six months earlier, his company had increased the annual ...
The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care.
This book examines the current state of American health care using a social science lens to focus on the interdependent, intercultural, economic, and communication aspects of access and delivery.
This edition focuses on today’s most important topics, including managed care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems and compliance, reimbursement methods, clinical documentation improvement, coding for medical necessity, and common ...
Understanding risk -- Putting risk in perspective -- Risk charts : a way to get perspective -- Judging the benefit of a health intervention -- Not all benefits are equal : understand the outcome -- Consider the downsides -- Do the benefits ...
This fully updated edition of a bestselling book explores the processes and institutions that make health policy, examining what constitutes health policy, where power lies, and what changes could be made to improve the quality of health ...
An indispensable resource for those involved in public health and health policy, this book uses Dr. Wennberg's pioneering research to provide a framework for understanding the health care crisis; and outlines a roadmap for real change in ...
Updated every year, this edition address changes to ICD-10-CM and CPT 2021 codes and introduces you to important developments, such as electronic claims processing, clinical quality language (CQL) and changes to the requirements for the ...