An Overview of Managed Care

Students were asked to locate five sites and five documents related to the various managed care topics they were interested in. They were assigned to critique and document the sites for the utility of the information they contain. As part of their project they learned to use a web browser, create, document, and organize bookmarks, use E-mail for communication and attach and transmit hyper-text documents.

We hope this site can serve as a resource to others who are interested in managed care policy and program issues. I also hope this site may serve as a example of how the Internet and the resources of the World Wide Web may be woven into a class learning. Students in this course were just beginning to use the resources available though the Internet. It should be noted that when the class began less then one third of the students had used E-mail, "surfed the net" or used the World Wide Web.  Today two thirds have access to the web at home, all have email but still twenty five percent have little web experience.  We invite you to explore this project and hopefully learn about managed care.
Ira Kaufman
 

kaufman@umdnj.edu

Associate Professor
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Phone: (732) 235-4548 Fax: (732) 235-4569

Topics (2000-2001):

• Continuous Quality Improvement - Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
• Medicare - Pros and Cons
• Pharmacoeconomics
• Prenatal Health and Managed Care
• Senior Citizens and Managed Care
• Telemedicine
• The Uninsured

Topics (1999-2000):

• Academic/Community Partnership
• Alternative Medicine and Managed Care
• Behavioral/Mental Health Managed Care
• Clinical Research and Academic Medical Centers
• Insurance Coverage of Birth Control
• Long Term Care, The Elderly, and HMO's
• Managed Care and the U.S. Military
• Medicare & Prescription Drug Benefit
• Overview of Managed Care and Dentistry
• Pharmaceutical Industry's Conduct and Managed Care
• Physician Satisfaction in a Managed Care Environment
• Technology and Managed Care
• The Internet & Healthcare
• Universal Health Care/National Insurance
• Physician Unionization

Topics (1998-1999):

• Consumer Rights
• Disease Management
• Elderly Long Term Care
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Managed Care: The Appeals Process
• Medicaid Managed Care
• Medicare Care
• Native Amerian health delivery system under Medicaid reform
• Patient Choice
• Pharmacoeconomics
• Pharmacoeconomics in the West
• Population Health & Managed Care
• Quality Measurement
• Special Needs
• Telemedicine
• Wall Street and Managed Care
• Women's Health

Topics (1997-1998):

• Chronic Care and Managed Care
• Long Term Care and Managed Care
• Managed Care and Ethics
• Managed Care Site for Consumers
• Perspectives of Physician Payment under Capitation
• Quality Measurement and Improvement in Managed Care
• Telemedicine

Topics (1996-1997):

• Community Providers and Managed Care
• Confidentiality and Information
• Continuous Quality Improvement and Managed Care
• Disease Management
• HPO's and Physician Skills for MCO's
• Hospital Reinventing
• Information Systems In Managed Care
• Integrated Delivery Systems
• Managed Care and Special Needs Populations-Sites
• Medicaid Managed Care
• Medicare Pro's and Con's
• Medicare and Managed Care Sites
• Mental Health/Managed Care
• Patient Choice Under Managed Care
• Pharmocoeconomics and Managed Care
• Physician Satisfaction
• Quality verse Accountability
• Role of Mid-level Practitioner in Managed Care
• Telemedicine
• Wall Street and Managed Care