title: Managed care and cost containment.
abstract: Managed care has been heralded by enthusiastic advocates as representing a viable way to put a brake on runaway health care costs. Still, there is concern that managed care may compromise quality of medical care because of incentives leading to underservice. The author overviews the concept of managed care and discusses the need to examine the possible cost-effectiveness of using such a system.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Uzych
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D017048:Health Care Costs; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States