title: The managed care option--proceed with caution.
abstract: To understand managed care, it is important to look at its origins, growth and development, including prospects for the future. Managed care systems today are a major factor in health care delivery and may well dominate the delivery system in America during the 1990s.
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005251:Fees, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006123:Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011243:Preferred Provider Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States