title: Vital signs: taking the pulse of your managed care contract performance.
abstract: Three essential baseline measures of managed care performance that should be reported on a regular basis are: Overall profitability of the organization's managed care portfolio. Payer mix and profitability. Performance of major managed care contracts.
authors.affiliation: Phoenix Services Managed Care Consulting, Ltd, Evanston, Ill., USA. Pam@PhoenixService.net
authors.forename: Pamela M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Waymack
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D032982:Contracts; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005375:Financial Audit; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D007182:Income; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D008330:Management Audit; D014481:United States