Essentials of Managed Health Care

Peter R. Kongstvedt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

694 Seiten

2021 | Sixth Edition
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-284-24669-8 (ISBN)

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As the most widely-used textbook on managed care, Essentials of Managed Health Care provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of managed health care and health insurance. With a primary focus on the commercial sector, the book also addresses managed health care in Medicare, Medicaid, and military medical care. An historical overview and a discussion of taxonomy and functional differences between different forms of managed health care provide the framework for the operational aspects of the industry as well.

Features and Benefits:
- New contributors.
- New chapter on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of March 2010.
- New chapter on enrollment and billing.
- New chapter on fraud and abuse.
- Completely re-written chapter on information systems and electronic data interchange.
- Completely re-written chapter on Medicaid Managed Health Care.
- Complete restructuring of section 2 with a new focus on structure and payment across all types of health care delivery systems.
- New chapter on physician practice behavior and managed health care

Peter R. Kongstvedt, M.D. is a renowned and highly regarded national expert in the health care industry.' Currently, he is Principal of the P.R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC, where he advises health care companies and executives on strategy, operations and effective decision making to enhance corporate, institutional, and executive success.''Peter is the editor and primary author of three seminal works on managed care:' The Managed Health Care Handbook, which he first wrote in 1985, while the fourth and final edition of this landmark textbook was published in 2000; The Essentials of Managed Health Care, Fifth Edition (published 2007); and Managed Care: What It Is and How it Works, Third Edition (published 2008).' These books are widely considered “the bibles” on managed care and are extensively used in post-graduate courses nationwide, in training and educational programs, and within the industry. He also co-authored Best Practices in Medical Management with David Plocher, M.D. in 1998.Peter began his career by practicing general internal medicine in rural southern Illinois at a rural health initiative clinic. After practicing for three years, he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to be the medical director of a medical group associated with a group-model health maintenance organization.' Soon after he became its chief executive officer as well.He continued his successful career as an executive in the managed health care industry, assuming increasingly responsible positions through 1993 when he held the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer at a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan in Washington, DC. In that same year, he became a direct-admit partner at Ernst & Young LLP, and continued his consulting career with global firms such as CapGemini and Accenture until 2008 when he formed the P.R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC.Peter is a highly sought after speaker by industry and trade groups as well as health care companies. He is also a frequent contributor to publications and the media, and has appeared on PBS and CNN as well as local media.Originally from the Midwest, for eighteen years Peter has lived in McLean, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. Peter may be reached through his website:'www.kongstvedt.com.'

Erscheinungsdatum	28.06.2021
Verlagsort	Sudbury
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	1559 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
ISBN-10	1-284-24669-8 / 1284246698
ISBN-13	978-1-284-24669-8 / 9781284246698
Zustand	Neuware