TennCare and Disproportionate Share Hospitals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761836469)

The economic recession and the rising healthcare costs experienced by many states in the U.S. is leading us towards the enactment of legislation that will reform the way that healthcare is provided and paid for within the individual states. TennCare was developed in Tennessee as a bold healthcare reform strategy that would simultaneously contain rapidly rising Medicaid costs while expanding insurance for a large, uninsured Tennessee population.

The implementation of TennCare in January 1994 instituted the move of Tennessee's Medicaid patients into managed care health plans. This study describes the design, rationale, implementation strategy, and issues of the reform program, as well as offering in depth insight regarding the effects of the reform strategy on disproportionate share hospitals, i.e. hospitals that serve a large portion of Medicaid and uninsured patients. Data spanning ten years of pre- and post-Tenncare were analyzed to determine the effects of TennCare on the hospitals. Dr. Ogbonna provides a template for dealing with policy, managerial, and administrative issues of rising healthcare costs in Tennessee and the nation in general.

Author: Chinyere Ogbonna
ISBN-10: 0761836462
ISBN-13: 9780761836469
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2007
Pages: 110
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.37h x 5.83w x 0.33d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2007 pg. 65