Market Level Health Plan Behavior and Performance
University of Michigan / AHRQ
06/01/00 - 06/30/07
Dennis P. Scanlon, Department of Health Policy and Administration
As the second decade of managed care's transformation of the US healthcare system comes to an end, consumers, the policy and health professional communities, state and federal regulators, the media, and health plans have begun to shift their attention increasingly to concerns about quality of care. The goal of our proposed program project grant is to understand how marketplace behavior affects quality and how the increased focus on quality in turn affects the various participants in the health care system.
Related Publications
Scanlon, D.P., Swaminathanan, S., Chernew, M., and Lee, W. (In press) Competition in Health Insurance Markets: Limitation of Current Measures for Policy Analysis. Medical Care Research & Review.
Scanlon, D.P., Swaminathanan, S., Chernew, M. and Lee, W. (In press) HMO Quality Improvement: Importance of Market and HMO Characteristics. Medical Care Research & Review.
Scanlon, D.P., Swaminathanan, S., Chernew, M., Bost, J., and Shervock, J. (2005) Health Plan Performance Evidence from Managed Care Insurance Markets. Medical Care 43(4):1-9.
Chernew, M.E., W.P. Wodchis, D.P. Scanlon and C. McLaughlin (2004). "Overlap in HMO Physician Networks." Health Affairs. 23(2):91-101. |Abstract|