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Managed Care and the Medical Profession

Managed Care and the Medical Profession Journal of MANAGED CARE VIEW FROM AMERICA Managed care and the medical profession Gordon T. Moore Prcfessor ojAmbulatory Care and Prevention and Director if Teaching Programmes Managed care is both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for mechanisms to 'manage' the spend of premium Americans. Many view managed care as our last income to reduce cost or increase value on behalf of chance to bring a bloated, inefficient system of the payer, patients, stockholders and providers. medical care into line to preserve affordable medical Achieving this requires co-operative agreements with care, the public and private sectors having otherwise clinical providers, so most managed care products are failed. For others, managed care is a deep threat to all structured to encourage or mandate that their that is good in American medical care - our research, members use a preferred group of clinicians and our teaching, our individual patient care, and the hospitals. doctor-patient relationship. The managed care product cannot be delivered To a substantial degree, both arc correct. At its best, without managed care processes. These are the actual managed care represents a major opportunity for mechanisms used by clinical providers to manage the medical care to discover what works and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Managed Care SAGE

Managed Care and the Medical Profession

Journal of Managed Care , Volume 1 (3): 2 – Sep 1, 1997

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SAGE
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© 1997 SAGE Publications
ISSN
1363-9595
DOI
10.1177/136395959700100308
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Journal of MANAGED CARE VIEW FROM AMERICA Managed care and the medical profession Gordon T. Moore Prcfessor ojAmbulatory Care and Prevention and Director if Teaching Programmes Managed care is both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for mechanisms to 'manage' the spend of premium Americans. Many view managed care as our last income to reduce cost or increase value on behalf of chance to bring a bloated, inefficient system of the payer, patients, stockholders and providers. medical care into line to preserve affordable medical Achieving this requires co-operative agreements with care, the public and private sectors having otherwise clinical providers, so most managed care products are failed. For others, managed care is a deep threat to all structured to encourage or mandate that their that is good in American medical care - our research, members use a preferred group of clinicians and our teaching, our individual patient care, and the hospitals. doctor-patient relationship. The managed care product cannot be delivered To a substantial degree, both arc correct. At its best, without managed care processes. These are the actual managed care represents a major opportunity for mechanisms used by clinical providers to manage the medical care to discover what works and

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Journal of Managed CareSAGE

Published: Sep 1, 1997

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