Jossey-Bass Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice (Jossey-Bass Public Health)

About the Author ALAIN C. ENTHOVEN, PH.D (editor) is Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management (Emeritus), Graduate School of Business, and Senior Fellow, Institute for International Relations, Center for Health Policy, Stanford University. He was one of the architect's of the managed competition model of health reform, which was subsequently adopted by President Clinton in the Health Security Act of 1996. LAURA TOLLEN, MPH, (editor) is Senior Policy Consultant for Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy. Prior to joining the Institute, Laura was Senior Analyst and Project Director at the Institute for Health Policy Solutions, a Washington, DC-based think tank. Product Description Toward a 21st Century Health System is a collection of thoughtful analyses that explore a key element of the health care delivery system-physician group practices. Edited by policy experts Alain Enthoven and Laura Tollen, and written by a blue ribbon panel of health policy scholars and leaders including Stephen Shortell, Hal Luft, Donald Berwick, James Robinson, and Helen Darling, this resource addresses a variety of topics, includingOrganized delivery systemsQuality of care in prepaid group practice versus other types of managed careThe role of physician leadership and culture in group practicePrepaid group practice and the formation of national health policyThis comprehensive resource also covers such topics as pharmacy benefit management, technology assessment, health services research, and employer purchasing of benefits– all as they relate to prepaid group practice. From the Inside Flap Toward a 21st Century Health SystemToward a 21st Century Health System's contributors includeGeorge Avery, M.P.H., University of Minnesota School of Public Health and University of Minnesota-Duluth Department of Psychology Robert A. Berenson, M.D., F.A.C.P., The Urban Institute Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., Institute for Healthcare Improvement William H. Campbell, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Pharmacy Jon B. Christianson, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management Kenneth H. Chuang, M.D., San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center Francis J. Crosson, M.D., The Permanente Federation Helen Darling, M.A., National Business Group on Health R. Adams Dudley, M.D., M.B.A., U.C. San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies David M. Eddy, M.D., Ph.D. Alain C. Enthoven, Ph.D., Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. Raymond Fink, Ph.D., Medical and Health Research Association of New York City Merwyn (Mitch) R. Greenlick, Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University Medical School George C. Halvorson, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals Richard E. Johnson, Ph.D., R.Ph., Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest Sharon L. Levine, M.D., The Permanente Medical Group Harold S. Luft, U.C. San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies Sachin H. Jain, Institute for Healthcare Improvement James C. Robinson, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, School of Public Health Julie Schmittdiel, M.A., U.C. Berkeley, School of Public Health Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, School of Public Health Jon A. Stewart, The Permanente Federation Laura A. Tollen, M.P.H., Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy Allan J. Weiland, M.D., Northwest Permanente, P.C. Jonathan P. Weiner, Dr.P.H., Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health Praise for Toward a 21st Century Health SystemAfter three decades of trying to reform health care by looking for a "silver bullet," I found the "future" has been here for more than a century. Policymakers tired of banging heads and gavels on stone walls need look no further than this well-designed analysis of prepaid group practice for the incentives necessary to enhance health system quality, safety, and performance, expand access and equity, and vastly improve the professional-patient relationship. —Hon. Dav