Getting real about capitation

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Health care reform in the form of capitated payment is becoming widely used in the US health care system. American employers are setting limits on how much money they will pay for employee health care, and Medicaid and Medicare are moving toward capitated systems as well. However, for capitation to work, physicians must become more cost conscious and aware of financial constraints to care. They must also be involved in planning capitation systems from the beginning.

Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers, Hospital and medical service plans, Medical Care Insurance, Analysis, Finance, Health care industry, Column, Health insurance, Capitated payment systems (Medical care)

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No shot in the dark; emergency doctors develop picture-taking skills to record - and prevent - domestic abuse

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Healthcare workers are being taught to identify and document domestic violence, thanks to the effort of doctors who are teaming up with private firms, police, insurers and hospitals to offer picture-taking skills to the workers. The program is designed to help break the cycle of domestic abuse by ensuring that medical records contains what could be used by the justice system to prosecute and win domestic violence cases.

Family violence, Domestic violence

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Chicago's hope

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Physician Gloria Jackson Bacon oversees a medical clinic in Chicago, IL's Altgeld Gardens-Murray Homes. The clinic serves the people living in public housing programs. Bacon stresses the need to treat patients with care and concern. The clinic has helped to reduce infant mortality and to improve the health of the community.

All Other Outpatient Care Centers, Neighborhood Health Centers, Health aspects, Ambulatory care facilities, Community health services, Chicago, Illinois, Clinics, Bacon, Gloria Jackson

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