Sentence examples for managed care policy from inspiring English sources

According to official statistics, in 2001, about 45% of the insured chose the lowest permissible deductible and only 9% the highest; about 8% chose a managed care policy, mainly the general practitioner-gatekeeper model.

An important conclusion to be drawn from this review is that improvements in research methodology will be essential in order to produce valid and reliable study results about cost, quality of care, and patient outcomes to inform managed care policy decisions.

William McKeever of UBS Warburg said Aetna's medical expenses were rising faster than its main competitors' costs, reflecting the change from tight-fisted managed care policies to "a more collaborative relationship with patients and doctors".

Aetna and a number of other health insurance companies face dozens of lawsuits challenging fundamental managed care policies at a time when costs are generally rising as many patients insist on expensive drugs and procedures.

Staffing patterns that limit patient access to nursing care and implementing managed care policies that threaten the quality of patient care were identified as the most disturbing issues.

The most exciting thing for guests and residents is that The Healthcare Resorts are covered by Medicare and they accept all managed care policies, as well as private pay.

Plans like Centene that had experience running managed care policies for Medicaid, the government-run program for the poor, have done well overall -- perhaps because those carriers are accustomed to running plans that have smaller networks of doctors and hospitals who are willing to accept much lower reimbursement for services.

Less than a month after signing a landmark deal that changes how it does business with doctors and consumers in Texas, the health insurance giant Aetna Inc. said today that it planned to relax some managed-care policies in Connecticut.

In addition, wider national health-care policy to manage urgent care use (reducing A&E visits and emergency hospital admissions) may also affect emergency presentations in cancer (NHS England, 2013).

Findings can be used by health care managers and policy makers in managing job satisfaction, intent to leave and nurse migration.

Managing policy actors, and so policy change, clearly requires better understanding of such influences.