Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Hospital Contract Management
Author: Contract Management
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Contract Management of Medical Services
Author: Great Britain: National Audit OfficePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780102977288
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Department for Work and Pensions relies on medical assessments to help its decision makers reach an appropriate decision on a customer's entitlement to a wide range of benefits. From April 2013, a new medical assessment will be introduced for Personal Independence Payment. A procurement competition is underway to appoint service providers for this. The Department's contractor for medical services, Atos Healthcare, completed 738,000 face-to-face medical assessments in 2011-12 and charged the Department £112.4 million. This performance review examines the Department's contract management and wider strategy for the supply of medical services, including the Department's contractual relationship with Atos Healthcare; the performance management of Atos Healthcare; the future contracting strategy. Amongst key findings, according to the performance data provided, is that Atos Healthcare has not routinely met all the service standards specified in the contract. This report makes a number of recommendations to strengthen existing governance arrangements; to improve performance monitoring and to strengthen the Department's commercial strategy
Performance-based Contracting for Health Services in Developing Countries
Author: Benjamin LoevinsohnPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821375377
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Despite the existence of effective interventions, there are many developing countries which are not on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for health. In many countries the delivery of health services is inadequate and one way of improving the situation is to contract with non-state providers. Contracting is a mechanism for a financing entity to procure a defined set of services from a non-state provider. Performance-based contracting is a type of contracting with: (a) a clear set of objectives and indicators; (b) systematic efforts to collect data to judge contractor performance; and (c) some consequences for the contractor, either rewards or sanctions, based on performance. Effective contracting for health services can be facilitated by using a systematic approach, described in this toolkit, that addresses key issues, including how to: 1. have a constructive dialogue with all stakeholders; 2. define the health services in terms of what services are to be delivered, where, the quantity of beneficiaries to be served, equity, and quality of care; 3. design the monitoring and evaluation to judge the performance of contractors; 4. select the contractors in a fair and transparent way; 5. arrange for effective contract management; 6. draft the contract and bidding documents; and 7. carry out the bidding process and successfully manage the contracts. The toolkit also includes a review of 14 evaluated examples of contracting in developing countries which concludes that the current weight of evidence indicates that contracting improves the coverage and quality of services rapidly. The six cases with controlled, before and after evaluations demonstrated large impact with themedian double difference (follow-up minus baseline in the experimental group minus follow-up minus baseline in the control) ranging from 9 to 26 percentage points.
The Managed Care Contracting Handbook
Author: Maria K. ToddPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439866570
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Managed care contracting is a process that frustrates even the best administrators. However, to ignore this complexity is to do so at your own expense. You don‘t necessarily need to bear the cost of overpriced legal advice, but you do need to know what questions to ask, what clauses to avoid, what contingencies to cover ... and when to ask a lawyer
Enterprise Contract Management
Author: Anuj SaxenaPublisher: J. Ross Publishing
ISBN: 1932159908
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Globalization, increased economic and geopolitical uncertainty, technological advancements, and a rise in the number of regulations and legislations have led to a significant rise in the importance, volume, and complexity of modern contractual agreements. Yet, in spite of these profound changes, many organizations still manage the contracting process in a fragmented, manual, and ad-hoc manner, resulting in poor contract visibility, ineffective monitoring and management of contract compliance, and inadequate analysis of contract performance. The net effect of this has been a heightened interest in re-engineering and automation of Enterprise Contract Management (ECM) processes across industry sectors and geographies. Enterprise Contract Management: A Practical Guide to Successfully Implementing an ECM Solution addresses all the questions surrounding ECM, ECM solutions, and the project management, change management, and risk management considerations to ensure its successful implementation. This concise text will help your organization manage the challenges of the contract life cycle and the key success factors and pitfalls in a typical ECM solution. It is a must read for corporate executives, buyers, procurement and strategic sourcing specialists, contract administrators and procurement managers. There is currently no other book available on ECM solutions. All existing books on contract management focus on the legal aspects of contracts, but none describe the functions, features, capabilities of technology solutions that support ECM, nor do they explain the key considerations for ensuring a successful ECM solution implementation.
Managed Care Contracting
Author: William A. GarofaloPublisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 9780787945817
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Today's heath care marketplace is highly competitive, requiring managed care providers to contract with dozens of insurers to survive. Each of these contracts comes with their its unique terms and conditions-making the contracting process overwhelmingly complex and giving many health care executives major headaches. Written by three of the country's leading health care consultants and attorneys, Managed Care Contracting is the first book to offer executives with no legal background practical, step-by-step advice on how to create winning contracts between health care organizations, payers, and employers. In straightforward language, free of legalese and jargon, this much-needed resource demystifies managed care contracting and prescribes some critical advice for hospital and physician group practice executives. The authors present helpful guidelines for evaluating the various types of managed care contracts and explain the most significant terms and concepts executives are likely to encounter. A treasure trove of information for health care executives no matter what their experience level, Managed Care Contracting Examines how to develop a contracting strategy Reviews the fundamentals of negotiating the contract Frames the key steps in the contracting process Provides a managed care contract negotiations checklist Dissects sample hospital and physician contracts Analyzes the contract risk factors by the type of payment explores the implications of changing financial incentives Outlines the most up-to-date information in the regulatory environment Includes illustrative examples and helpful tables and chartsFor health care executives who are just beginning the complex contracting process and for the more experienced who require the most current information on the topic, Managed Care Contracting provides the knowledge and tools they need to succeed. "Managed Care Contracting is a very timely
Health Care Choices
Author: Clark C. HavighurstPublisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844738673
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This text argues that private contracts would allow for more and genuine consumer choice, based on real differences between competing health plans in content, mixture and cost of services. It further argues that contracts would establish set standards and obligations for all parties.
Are Contract-managed Hospitals More Efficient?.
Author: Avi DorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Contract management is an arrangement in which the board of trustees of a hospital retains an outside organization to manage the facility. This report examines differences between contract-managed hospitals and hospitals managed by salaried administrators.The report uses data from the Hospital Cost and Utilization Project, 1980-87 (HCUP-2) database and the American Hospital Association Annual Survey of Hospitals for 1987 to compare contract-managed hospitals with noncontract hospitals. Contract-managed hospitals generally are smaller facilities, often located in rural areas. Adjusted for size and location, contract-managed hospitals resemble noncontract in casemix and physician speciality attributes, although they appear to provide fewer technology-intensive services. Data from HCUP-2 were used to determine the relationship between financial performance and duration of contract management. Financial ratio analysis suggests that boards of trustees of hospitals opt for services of contract-management firms when the hospitals face financial difficulties. Financially stable hospitals are less likely to do so. Given enough time, contract managers appear to be able to improve the financial condition of the hospital they manage
Contract Management
Author: United States Government Accountability OfficePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978409538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
CONTRACTMANAGEMENTFurther EffortsNeeded to SustainVA's Progress inPurchasing MedicalProducts and Services
