Almost every country exhibits two important health financing trends: health spending per person rises and the share of out-of-pocket spending on health services declines. We describe these trends as a “health financing transition” to provide a conceptual framework for understanding health...

Reviews Tennessee's experience setting, monitoring, and updating capitation rates for Medicaid managed behavioral health care and draws lessons for other states. Finds that the initial behavioral health rate was inadequate, primarily because of the way available information was used, rather than...

Although financial indicators are most often used to measure organizational efficiency, contemporary research suggests that more consideration should be given to non-material factors that can be enveloped by different non-parametric techniques. However, there is no method powerful enough to...

Credit cooperatives are achieving new markets due to the current finance market system. In order to face the industry’s competition,such organizations seek economical and managerial efficiency. This work aims to analyze the economical and managerial status of the“Alpha” credit cooperative....