A Physician's Guide to Thriving in the New Managed Care Environment : Selecting the Right Strategy for Your Practice

By Richard V. Stenson

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581510306
• ISBN13: 9781581510300
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Bookpartners
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.3"

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Options for physicians working within the prepaid medicine system make sense when you understand the pros and cons, strategies, and structures analyzed in this guide to the new managed care environment. -- Evolution of the managed care movement. -- Myths about organizational requirements for managed care success. -- Pros and cons of solo practice versus IPA, PHO, or group practice. -- Working for hospital or HMO. -- Entrepreneurial, legal, and regulatory characteristics of each model. -- Best opportunities for primary care and specialist physicians. -- The ideal physician organization for managed care. -- Future winners and losers, quality of care, reform, and Wall Street.Analyze the cost and benefits of practice and managed care proposals, because an informed choice makes good medicine work.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Richard Stenson has spent more than twenty-five years working in and analyzing integrated delivery systems (IDS) that bring together doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies as mutual players with common goals. He received his bachelors degree in Business from the University of California, Berkeley, a masters degree in Health Administration from Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, and an M.B.A from Loyola University in New Orleans. The author has worked in executive management at the Ochsner Hospital, affiliated with the Ochsner Clinic and Ochsner Research Foundation in New Orleans. He held joint administrative responsibilities for the Upjohn Medical Group, Harkness Community Hospital (formerly Southern Pacific Hospital), and Health Maintenance Inc. (HMO plan) of Northern California. He was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Straub Clinic & Hospital and the Straub Health Plan in Honolulu. Presently, he is President and CEO of the Tuality Healthcare system and the Tuality Health Alliance, a PHCO (nonprofit, physician, hospital, community organization) in Hillsboro, Oregon. Mr. Stenson is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Practice Executives (medical group practice management) and also a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (hospitals and health system management). He has certificates of completion from the Harvard University Program in Health Policy, Planning Regulation, and Stanford University's Advanced Management College. He has taught and lectured on the management faculties of several colleges and universities, and published articles and book reviews on health care management. He has also chaired and/or served on the boards of numerous organizations and associations for medical groups, hospitals, medical education, health planning, health issues advocacy, medical joint ventures, physician management services, health executives, medically indigent, and community service.