title: Health care cost, competition, and the quality of care in third party vision plans.
abstract: Spiralling costs have created new ways to deliver and pay for health care services. Competition and the desire of payors for the least expensive health plan have raised concern about the quality of services in third party plans. This paper reviews the issues surrounding quality of health care and offers guidelines to promoting quality eye and vision care plans.
authors.affiliation: American Optometric Association, Alexandria, VA 22314.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Whitener
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dworakowski-Howe
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000191:economics*; D009907:Optometry / Q000191:economics*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States