Objective. This article reports on a systematic review of data‐based, peer‐reviewed scientific
assessments of performance differences between private for‐profit and private nonprofit US …

Context The proportion of health maintenance organization (HMO) members enrolled in
investor-owned plans has increased sharply, yet little is known about the quality of these …

The authors review empirical literature from 1980 to 2005 on relationships between
healthcare organizations' Finances and quality of care. They found only 16 studies of this …

Background: The number of for-profit hospices increased nearly 4-fold over the past decade,
more than 6 times the growth of nonprofit hospices. Despite this growth, the impact of …

Background Despite the human and monetary costs of occupational injury and illness,
occupational health care has focused more on treatment than prevention, and prevention is …

Background It is uncertain how assessments of medical care differ between enrollees in for-
profit and nonprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Methods We analyzed the …

Objective: To determine, by way of an exhaustive, systematic, and comprehensive review
and summary of all scientific published studies, whether or not there are any performance …

Managed care provides health insurers a unique opportunity for discretion over certain
aspects of financial reporting. Specifically, managed care mechanisms provide health …

Growing public interest in the operations of managed care plans has fueled a variety of
activities to collect and analyze their performance. These activities include studies of …

Objective: To examine correlations of commercial health plan performance on Health Plan
Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) effectiveness-of-care measures with utilization …