Health Affairs January/February Issue Highlights ‘Business of Health’ in the Unites States
Highlights from the table of contents of the January/February 2002 edition of Health Affairs, available Jan. 8, appear below:
- Health Plans and the Market -- "The Changing Face of Managed Care"; "Bounceback: Blues Thrive as Markets Cool Toward HMOs"; and "Defined-Contribution Health Insurance Products: Development and Prospects."
- Employers as Purchasers -- "Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Pressing Problems, Incremental Changes"; "Evolution in the Buyers Health Care Action Group Purchasing Initiative"; "Cost and Quality Trends in Direct Contracting Arrangements."
- Hospital Finance -- "The Financial Health of California Hospitals: A Looming Crisis"; and "Out of the Frying Pan: New York City Hospitals in an Age of Deregulation."
- Physician Workforce -- "Economic and Demographic Trends Signal an Impending Physician Shortage"; "Perspectives: The Ramifications Of Specialty-Dominated Medicine"; "A Shortage of Physicians or a Surplus of Assumptions?"; and "New Opportunities For Old Mistakes."
- Health Tracking -- "Trends: Workers and Their Health Plans: Free to Choose?"; "Trends: Trends in Health Insurance Coverage: A Look at Early 2001 Data"; "Marketwatch: Competitive Behavior in the HMO Marketplace"; and "Marketwatch: Physician and Health System Integration."
- Datawatch: "Geographic Variation in the Use of Medications: Is Uniformity Good News Or Bad?"
- GrantWatch: "Special Report: The RWJF's Workers' Compensation Health Initiative: Findings and Strategies."
