The relaxing of oversight can be a problem in any market in which consumers can't choose from a diverse array of providers.
Increasingly, Americans are taking more expensive biologics beyond pills and capsules and they require specialty pharmacies to dispense them, working with an array of providers, particularly for an aging population in assisted living and long-term care facilities.
UnitedHealth members will have access to Doctor On Demand, which offers video access to an array of providers including physicians, psychologists and lactation consultants; NowClinic, a subsidiary of United Healths Optum business, which has connections with health professionals in 45 states; and American Well, which has access to board-certified health professionals across the country.
An array of provider-level structural and systemic factors has been suggested (location of facilities, availability of oncology specialists, etc)., but not fully explored [ 17– 22].
Our categorization of the appropriate and inappropriate care was not homogenous and included a diverse array of providers.
Children with tracheotomy receive health care from an array of providers within various hospital and community health system sectors.
Children with tracheotomy receive health care from an array of providers including otolaryngologists, pulmonologists, primary care, rehabilitation care, home and school nursing, therapists and equipment specialists [ 3, 4].
In this context, coordination refers to the integration of interdisciplinary rehabilitation services whether delivered by an array of providers at the community level or across levels of care such as from a hospital to the community.
It would be offered by an array of preferred provider organizations and health maintenance organizations, and with traditional fee-for-service Medicare.
These results build upon prior literature suggesting that the ACIC is a valid measure of chronic illness care that is associated with a broad array of patient, provider, and organizational outcomes [ 3- 5, 24, 28- 32].
