Table of Contents

Introduction by Jonathan D. Moreno Analyzing the Issues Professionalism and Physician Reimbursement by Gary Crum The Ethics of Cost-Conscious Physician Reimbursement by Jacqueline Glover and Gail J. Povar Assessing and Paying for Quality by Molla Donaldson Physician Reimbursement: The Lessons of Economics by Mary Ann Baily Assessing Payment Mechanisms Financial Methods for Paying the Doctor: Issues and Options by Steven R. Eastaugh Payment Approaches and the Cost of Care by Robert A. Berenson Taming Medical Technology by Richard K. Riegelman Competitive Medical Organizations: A View of the Future by John E. Ott Dividing Up the Professions Paying the Primary Care Physician by Jack Summer Reimbursement and the Specialists: A Historical Perspective by Robin Curtis and Robert S. Siegel Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants: Revenue and Reimbursement by Jean Johnson and James F. Cawley Case Study: Medicare Medicare and Medicaid: The Government as Third Party Payor by James Bonanno Bautz The Origins and Consequences of Medicare by Edward Berkowitz and Wendy Wolff Medicare as a System by L. Gregory Pawlson Conclusion : The Fruits of Reform: A New Payment Scheme by John F. Hoadley Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

JONATHON D. MORENO is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Humanities in Medicine at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Brooklyn. He is co-author of Discourse in the Social Sciences: Translating Models of Mental Illness (Greenwood Press, 1982). He has written numerous articles in periodicals, including the Journal of Clinical Ethics, Pediatric Annals, Ethicscope, and the Journal of Adolescent Health Care.