Payer, Provider, Consumer: Industry Confronts Health Care Costs: Industry Confornts Health Care Costs (Springer Series on Industry and Health Care, 1)

With this first monograph, Springer-Verlag launches an unusual publishing venture. The purpose of the Springer Series on Industry and Health Care is to explore in depth the current and potential future role of industry­ both management and labor in all private sector enterprises-as a financer of health care benefits, as a provider of health care services, and as an extremely influential "consumer" of health care. The assumption behind the series is that private industry has the capabil­ ity, as an alternative to increased government intervention, to effect major change in the health care delivery system and is beginning to show evidence of exercising that influence. The subject matter covered by the series crosses boundaries between disciplines and specialities-occupational medicine, medical care, public health, economics, business administration, law, public policy, medical sociology-and arises in disparate arenas-labor-manage­ ment relations, corporate negotiations with insurance carriers, physician­ patient interactions, public policy, and politics. The Springer Series will draw much of its material from interdisciplinary working conferences, will analyze and synthesize the discussions, add timely background material, and be published within no more than six months of the conferences on which they build. The series will consist of four monographs a year and two volumes of background papers. With this first monograph, Springer-Verlag launches an unusual publishing venture. The purpose of the Springer Series on Industry and Health Care is to explore in depth the current and potential future role of industryƯ both management and labor in all private sector enterprises-as a financer of health care benefits, as a provider of health care services, and as an extremely influential "consumer" of health care. The assumption behind the series is that private industry has the capabilƯ ity, as an alternative to increased government intervention, to effect major change in the health care delivery system and is beginning to show evidence of exercising that influence. The subject matter covered by the series crosses boundaries between disciplines and specialities-occupational medicine, medical care, public health, economics, business administration, law, public policy, medical sociology-and arises in disparate arenas-labor-manageƯ ment relations, corporate negotiations with insurance carriers, physicianƯ patient interactions, public policy, and politics. The Springer Series will draw much of its material from interdisciplinary working conferences, will analyze and synthesize the discussions, add timely background material, and be published within no more than six months of the conferences on which they build. The series will consist of four monographs a year and two volumes of background papers Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction: Industry Confronts Health Care Costs....Pages 1-9 Industry as Payer: Employee Health Benefits....Pages 10-45 Industry as Provider: Health Programs Sponsored by Employers or Unions....Pages 46-72 Industry as Consumer: Health Planning and Consumer Health Information....Pages 73-89 Summing Up....Pages 90-93 Issues for the Future....Pages 94-97 Back Matter....Pages 98-117 Diana Chapman Walsh, Richard H. Egdahl. Bibliography: P. [110]-117.