title: Medicare increases managed care's accountability, Part 2.
abstract: In Part 1, the author explained Medicare's Quality Improvement System for Managed Care, Medicare's first consistent set of standards to monitor and evaluate the quality of managed care for its members. This month, read about the plans' need to meet certain patient-focused standards and the strain this places on plans' administrations.
authors: Birch & Davis Health Management Corp., Silver Spring, Md., USA.
authors: P L
authors: PL
authors: Grimaldi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000592:standards*; D006278:Medicare / Q000592:standards*; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000592:standards*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States