Law and Practice of Private Health Insurance and Managed Care : 9783838623214 : 28 Apr 2000 : Diploma Thesis from the year 2000 in the subject Health Science, grade: 1,0, Technical University of Darmstadt (Unbekannt), course: Zivilrecht, Deutsches und Internationales, language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: A true revolution has taken place in the financing of health care in America. Today, managed care is dominating the way Americans receive and pay for their health care. With the rise of managed care medicine has been wrenched out of its atomized world of solo physician practices and community hospitals and has been transformed into a modern industry of giant for-profit companies traded on Wall Street. The current marketplace is characterized by mergers, acquisitions and the establishment of giant multi-billion dollar healthcare networks. Hospitals and managed care plans run big advertisement campaigns in the media, praising their products and services in order to get th