title: Cancer carve outs and outcomes measurement programs: an emerging paradigm.
abstract: Determining how to provide optimal, cost-efficient cancer care may well be one of the most critical issues facing health plans in the 1990s. Although challenging today, the provision of cancer care promises to become even more complex in the near future. To meet the challenge presented by the modern health care environment, some health plans are using the services of a new breed of cancer care delivery system--the cancer carve out.
authors.affiliation: SalickNet, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kurowski
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States