title: Letter from California: what is managed health care?
abstract: At a recent meeting I attended in Bournemouth there was a lot of talk about 'managed care' in medicine and dentistry arriving in the UK. Managed care has already been introduced in the US and is the subject of many passionate debates. This article reviews managed care in the US and how it has affected health care over the last few years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California, USA.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Pogrel
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003813:Dentistry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007347:Insurance, Dental; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D011215:Practice Management, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration; D018855:Single-Payer System