Responsible Healthcare - The ManagingManagedCare.com website considers the promise and pitfalls and the assumptions and experiences of health care practices and systems as they endeavor to be efficient and effective, providing optimal quality and appropriate access.

  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/site-page/about-managingmanagedcarecom ABOUT ManagingManagedCare.com - The three main objectives in health care reform are: 1) contain costs, and 2) improve quality, while 3) maintaining timely and appropriate access.
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/services Newsworthy programs that are designed to manage the care - What is the promise and pitfalls, and the assumptions and experience of various, financially-accountable, optimal quality, forms of health care delivery and financing?
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/blog Health Care Blog - Discussions and Controversies - he ManagingManagedCare.com website considers the principle features of the managed care systems of health care in an effort to understand the promise and pitfalls, and the assumptions and experience of various, financially-accountable, optimal quality, forms of health care delivery and financing. Inherent in the broad rubric of
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  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/story/access-problems Access Problems - How furious should we be when the insurer uses technicalities to refuse coverage, makes patients wait incessantly on the phone, transfers calls to G_d knows now many departments and then, after seemingly hours, the connection breaks, etc.?
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/service/its-your-life-so-take-care It's your life, so take care - There’s a tendency to think that when we are “exercising” we are doing something good for our bodies, but when we are hanging out with friends, we are wasting our time and should be more productively engaged–-not true. Also note, depression can be associated with being at higher risk for Parkinson’s and other diseases. For instance....
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/service/attention-deficit-sans-medicine Attention Deficit, Sans Medicine - Some would say to medicate is a remedy for kids or adults whose minds wander. I’d say it is also part of the problem. Medications cannot treat everything and worse, it does not replace making the learning material relevant or the teaching method effective. Often, it's quite the opposite in fact--'Give him medicine and then we can on with the boring subject matter.' Despite the official publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) recommendations the use of evidence-based standards for diagnosing and treating ADHD remains elusive. For example, .....I say a new paradigm is needed in scholastics. Let's seek caring teachers who can deal with those having difficulties in self-control (weakness in 'disinhibiting' certain disruptive or distracting behaviors), and then, and only then, in my opinion should one consider using pharmacology as a supplement or aid.
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/service/manage-care-or-lose-marketshare Manage Care or Lose Marketshare! - Much of what I read in health care blogs these days are well-intentioned people advocating for weak structural changes that, in the long run do very little to restrain the ever rising cost of care both here and, increasingly, in other countries. Unfortunately, there's no paradigm-shift, no epiphany and no panacea here; it's more like a shell game—'take more out of your pocket and you'll think twice about that test, that procedure, that ER visit.'
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/story/doctoring-all-health-care-once Doctoring All Of Health Care At Once - The three core principles of Patient-centered care and Accountable Care Orgnaizations and how to get to Managed Care nirvana:1) The healthcare organization must embrace and incorporate a
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/story/cost-containments-chilling-effect Cost Containment's Chilling Effect - Failing to bill out over $1.5 million in claims? Clearly, the provider community is frustrated by the denial of payment is palpable. Solution: Discontentment Abatement Policy. It is also noteworthy that
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/story/physician-compensation Physician Compensation - Reform will fail when practitioners are not getting paid for legitimate work they do.
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/story/duh-better-health-care-coverage-better-health-care-better-results Duh! Better Health Insurance Coverage; Better Health Care and Results - Much of the work on health disparities and inequities in access focuses on comparisons between the insured and those without coverage; the uninsured come out wanting. [Surprised?] And add a comment about longer then expected care and caring using as an example, concussion care in kids (-- not so different than in adults)
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/story/managed-care-organizations-practicing-medicine-without-license-0 managed Care Organizations Practicing Medicine (Without a License) - To improve the insurance coverage of mental health care, employers and group health plans are ruled against discrimination, * i.e., providing less coverage for mental health conditions than physical ones. Also, discussed are some questions to ask before settling on a therapist. The bio-psycho-social model of disease in the context of pay-for-performance. Patient compliance is rewarded with lower co-pays over time.
  • https://managingmanagedcare.com/story/not-just-apple-day Not Just an Apple a Day... - As Paul Offit (Chief Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) states, “There’s no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s only medicine that works and medicine that doesn’t.” Read this post about fighting cancer, Fight Song, in particular.

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