Cost Outcomes and Social Work Practice  

Oleh:

Rizzo, Victoria M. ; Fortune, Anne E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Research on Social Work Practice vol. 16 no. 1 (Jan. 2006), page 5-8.
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In response to escalating health care costs, especially costs for which Medicare and Medicaid are the primary payers, government officials, policy makers, and health administrators have placed increasing pressure on health care providers andmental health providers to answer the following question: What is the relationship between the cost of the services provided and the benefit to the consumers receiving it? In otherwords, can health andmental health providers demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of the services they provide to consumers? Answers to these questions are increasingly used to determine reimbursement structures for private insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare. Therefore, evidence about the costeffectiveness of social work interventions is needed to convince government officials, policy makers, and health administrators that these services are essential. For this reason, the use of economic analysis to examine the efficacy of social work practice is the focus of this special issue.

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