title: Quality time.
abstract: With health care costs soaring, almost everyone rushed into managed care plans to save money. But consumers have discovered that price isn't everything. And business, government and unions increasingly have embarked on a quest for health care quality.
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Serafini
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D003256:Community Participation; D017046:Cost Savings; D003406:Credentialing; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011057:Politics; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States