Managed health care in the new millennium

"Thoroughly exploring how capitation has evolved domestically and internationally in recent years, this book discusses actuarial assumptions and the difficulties in payers transitions from community-based underwriting to experience-based ratings. It explores what the future holds in the areas of clinical pathways and population-based risk assumption tools and approaches. It covers what happens when the underlying actuarial and risk assumptions are ignored or trivialized. The author also discusses the challenges capitation-based pricing faces from an international perspective, including Latin America and the Caribbean"--Provided by publisher.