A nationally representative sample of 12,280 physicians was selected to investigate physician practices in 60 randomly selected communities. Multivariate analyses demonstrate that the more the physicians accept Medicare managed care patients, private or commercial insurance plans including...

Hospitals in California have argued that because of hospital competition and managed care, their costs have increased faster than their revenues. By developing a payer-specific Case Mix Index (CMI) for Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid programme, this study attempts to test the hospitals'...

Recent passage of legislation in Florida mandating the development of a statewide Medicaid managed care long-term care plan was initiated to facilitate the utilisation of home- and community-based long-term care services in place of high cost, non-skilled nursing home care. However, programme...