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A 7 page book review that offers roughly a half-page synopsis of each of the 13 chapters in Gayle L. Zieman's The Handbook of Managed Behavioral Healthcare, which is a comprehensive guide to clinicians, healthcare administrators in training, and all those in the healthcare field who have to work daily with managed care organizations. This fact-filled book details what healthcare practitioners need to know and Zieman relates this information in an easy-to-read manner that makes the book accessible to all readers. No additional sources cited.
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have to work daily with managed care organizations. This fact-filled book details what healthcare practitioners need to know and Zieman relates this information in an easy-to-read manner that makes the
book accessible to all readers. The following offers a brief synopsis of the content of each chapter. (All citations reference this book.) Chapter 1: Managed care, healthcares new foundation In
this introductory chapter, the author offers a comprehensive overview of managed care as it exists today and describes its evolution. Additionally, the basic concepts and terms of both managed care
and the system that preceded it, indemnity insurance, are discussed. This shows the reader how these two systems of healthcare delivery differ, which gives the reader a greater understanding of
the radical changes that are occurring in contemporary healthcare. Managed care came in to being when the "sacred axiom that all decisions about treatment must be between doctor and patient"
was abandoned (5). Managed care addressed such discrepancies as the fact that hospitals were rewarded financially for keeping people hospitalized, even when outpatient services would have been most appropriate (5-6).
The reform that brought about managed care rectified the problem that there was no "financial reward for curing a patient or using less-intensive treatments" (60). Chapter 2: Nearly one
hundred years of managed care Zieman steps backward in chapter 2 and offers a discussion of the history of prepaid health plans in the US. Contrary to popular belief, managed
care is not a new phenomena. The basic concepts of managed care were developed in the early 1900s (12). Zieman shows how the controversies surrounding early pre-paid plans led to
the evolution of indemnity medical insurance. She charts the history of health insurance through to the introduction of managed care and how HMOs and PPOs came into being in the
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