Managing Managed Care

The authors explain the pitfalls of managed care for those practitioners who wish to take part in it, while mapping out independent financing strategies for those who wish to remain outside the system. They provide an overview of the managed care marketplace as it currently affects children and families, review relevant legal and financial issues, and illustrate (using case examples) some problems of the managed care system. Managing Managed Care contains a great deal of practical information about what to look for in a managed care contract, what kind of marketing is effective, and how to build more fee-for-service business into one's practice. The overall goal is to provide clinicians, not with a manifesto for or against the managed care hegemony, but with the information and analysis they need to make sound decisions about their own practice in the context of the current financing schemes.