Prepaid health care plans

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• Examine the similarities and differences between the various health care delivery systems.

  (http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Health-care-industry/Health-maintenance-organizations-structure-performance-and-current-issues-for-employee-health-benefi.html) EThe goal of Prepaid Health Plans was "to help make quality health care affordable for groups

• U.S. Managed Care

  Henry Kaiser was a major contributor to the development of prepaid health plans at the time, focusing on programs for steel mill and ship yard workers (Tufts Managed Care Institute, 1998).

• American History of Health Insurance.

  This plan also allowed dependent care, and similar Blue Cross plans flourished around the country. By the end of the 1930's about half of the states had passed legislation enabling service plans like Blue Cross.

• Healthcare finances reimbursement

  A too large discount could discourage tests or other care that the patient needs. Flat -rate re-reimbursement is a form of managed care of HMO. Flat fee or prepaid plans hold providers to an established rate.

• Characteristics of various popular managed care models

  Open panel HMO - a managed care plan that contracts with independent physicians to deliver care to a health plan enrolls in their own offices. Physicians can contract with multiple plans and care for non-HMO patients as well.

• Managed Healthcare Organizations

  L. 93-222) provided a major impetus to the expansion of managed health care as it overrode state laws restricting the establishment of prepaid health plans, and required employers with 25 or more employees to offer an HMO option if they furnished health

• Canada & USA Health Care Systems

  Hospitals in the US are paid either through health care insurances or by individuals who access their services. Health plans usually have negotiated payments for services provided or allowed by the insurance.

• Five Forces Analysis of the Prepaid Mobile Phone Industry

  For many people who choose prepaid plans because they do not care about all the additional features, these new plan offerings may become a better option.

• How is managed care likely to impact the long-term supply of the healthcare providers in the United states?

  Today's market environment produces incentives radically altered from the early prepaid plans.