In the long negotiations that led to the workers’ compensation reform package, one of the most contentious issues was who should pick the doctors treating injured workers. In the end, the governor and ...

HMOs and accountable-care organizations espouse many of the same virtues, like more efficient care and cost containment. But while HMOs never shed their bad reputations with consumers, experts around ...

Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Jan Berry, ...

Accountable care organizations are a "fad" and "not very different from the HMO model… [with] a few bells and whistles, but otherwise it's the same old incentive to do as little as possible and find ...

HMOs in California, particularly Kaiser, have developed approaches to end-of-life care that allow them to use far fewer inpatient resources than fee-for-service providers. : To estimate the effect of ...

However, most generalizations about managed care do not hold true for one simple reason — no two managed-care plans are exactly alike. While the majority of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are ...