Understanding Health Policy

Author: Thomas S. Bodenheimer
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0071378154

Understanding Health Policy

Already the number one text on health policy and rapidly becoming a classic, Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach 3E covers such fundamental topics as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. Medical books Understanding Health Policy. Medical books Understanding Health Policy, Sixth Edition [ebook]. Understand how the healthcare system works - and how you can succeed in itCovers the 2010 Affordable Care ActThe most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available, Understanding Health Policy

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Understand how the healthcare system works - and how you can succeed in itCovers the 2010 Affordable Care ActThe most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available, Understanding Health Policy

*Author: Bodenheimer, Thomas S., MD/ Grumbach, Kevin *Series Title: Understanding *Publication Date: 2012/02/15 *Number of Pages: 272 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.50 *Width: 6.00 *Height: 9.00

Categories: Health policy, Health Care Costs, Delivery of Health Care->organization & administration. Contributors: Bodenheimer - Author. Format: Paperback

Categories: Health policy->United States, Delivery of Health Care->organization & administration, Health Care Costs. Contributors: Thomas S. Bodenheimer - Author. Format: Paperback

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Extensive case histories, drawn from the authors' actual practice, bring to life important policy issues by pinpointing individual encounters within the healthcare system.

New to this Edition

* More information on 2-tier model of reimbursement
* Greater emphasis on defined contribution approach to controlling costs
* Includes comparative information on health care policy in Canada, the UK, and Germany
* "Questions & Discussion Topics" provided for each chapter to stimulate classroom discussion

Please consider this important new edition for your course. Your students will gain an engaging text, that according to a review by the Journal of Health, Politics, Policy, and Law of the prior edition, "goes a long way toward helping readers understand how the health care system has worked in the past, how it is changing, and how it might work under different scenarios in the future."