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PubMed1992

The courts and health policy: strengths and limitations.

In recent years the nation's courts have expanded their influence in health policy in four areas: reviewing insurers' coverage decisions, deciding the adequacy of Medicaid payment rates to hospitals and nursing homes, arbitrating hospital mergers, and assessing hospitals' tax-exempt status. The major problem with developing health policy through the courts is that the courts' focus will be the concerns of the individuals or groups involved in specific cases, not the broader implications and overall objectives of the health care system. As alternatives to litigation to resolve policy conflicts, scholars have suggested negotiation, binding arbitration, clarification of legislative language, administrative courts, contract revision, and general restructuring of the decision-making process.

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PubMed1992

The integrated health-care system: reflection and projection.

This paper presents a personal view of the development of integrated, comprehensive health-care systems in the United States. The influence of Federal legislation is described, beginning with the 1950-60s policy objective of Hill-Burton Program administrators to create a number of community-based regional medical centers, each consisting of a range of health services organized by and around community hospitals. Later variations of the concept appeared in such programs as Medicare-Medicaid, Comprehensive Health Planning, the Regional Medical Programs, and the new Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Based on the cumulative experience of the past, the economic, professional and social climate of the present, with its increasing involvement of the patient/payer/consumer in decisions, and the enhanced inter-organizational coordination emerging from technologies of computers and communication science, the goal of creating comprehensive integrated systems as conceived in the 1950s and 60s may finally be achieved in the 1990s, but in a different form from that envisioned earlier. By judicious exploitation of computer and communication capabilities and the massive knowledge bases evolving from research, the way is eased for patient-centered integration and coordination of services without demanding integration in the sense of ownership or formal control of all the providers within a central organization.

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PubMed1978

Reducing excess hospital capacity is a tough but necessary job.

Developing and implementing an effective program to reduce excess hospital capacity is an extremely difficult and complex task. But it is clearly a logical means to contain health care costs and to develope a cost-effective health system.

Facility Regulation and Control↗