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A Deliberative Model of Corporate Medical Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Mark E. Meaney
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Managed care is evolving in ways that pose unique ethical challenges to those interested in the intersection of clinical and organizational ethics. For example, Disease Management (DM) is a form of managed care that has emerged in response to chronic illness. DM is a healthcare management tool that coordinates resources across an entire health care delivery system and throughout the life cycle of chronic disease. Health Maintenance Organizations have reduced some costs in the delivery of acute care, but real cost savings will result only with greater efficiencies in the delivery of costly chronic care. DM is a systematic, population-based approach that identifies persons at risk of chronic ailment, intervenes with specific programs of care, measures clinical and other outcomes, and provides continuous quality improvement. Characterized as a movement to patient-driven services, DM involves a complex web of provider relations.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , Summer 2000 , pp. 125 - 136
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2000

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