TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hyman,David
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition A Report By The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (July, 2004), with various Supplementary Materials 
T2  - Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy,
SN  - 9780387257525
U1  - 338.9 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - ECONOMICS
KW  - MEDICAL RECORDS
KW  - DATA PROCESSING
KW  - PUBLIC HEALTH LAWS
KW  - ECONOMIC POLICY
KW  - SOCIAL POLICY
KW  - COMMERCIAL LAW
KW  - ECONOMICS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
KW  - LAW AND ECONOMICS
KW  - MEDICAL LAW
KW  - HEALTH INFORMATICS
N1  - Executive Summary -- Overview/Background -- Industry Snapshot and Competition Law: Physicians -- Industry Snapshot: Hospitals -- Competition Law: Hospitals -- Industry Snapshot: Insurance and Other Third Party Payment Programs -- 6: Competition Law: Insurers -- Industry Snapshot and Competition Law: Pharmaceuticals -- Miscellaneous Subjects
N2  - Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition systematically examines the American health care system from a competition-oriented perspective. The volume surveys the performance of each major sector of the health care system, and identifies impediments to more effective competition. Improving Healthcare examines such issues as competition v. regulation, public and private sector approaches to health care financing, cross-subsidies, licensure, provider market concentration, financial and clinical integration, payment for performance, quality, pharmacy benefit managers, direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals, certificates of need, mandates, unionization, the significance of organizational status (nonprofit v. for-profit), and the role of antitrust and consumer protection in health care. It offers concrete recommendations to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of the American health care marketplace
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b135898
ER  -