| managed competition | A strategy for purchasing health care in a manner which will obtain maximum value for the price for the purchasers of the health care and the recipients. The concept was developed primarily by alain enthoven of stanford university and promulgated by the jackson hole group. The strategy depends on sponsors for groups of the population to be insured. The sponsor, in some cases a health alliance, acts as an intermediary between the group and competing provider groups (accountable health plans). The competition is price-based among annual premiums for a defined, standardised benefit package. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| care, managed | Any system that manages healthcare delivery in order to control costs. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| managed care | Any system that manages healthcare delivery to control costs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| managed care programs | Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| managed wetlands | Perched wetlands that receive seasonal flooding by man to induce marshland development. (09 Oct 1997) |
| antigenic competition | Competition that occurs when two different antigens, each of which can evoke an immunological response when inoculated alone, are mixed in equal quantities and inoculated together; the response may be to only one, that to the other being largely or entirely suppressed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| competition | <zoology> A type of organism interaction which can be either between members of the same species or members of different species. The relationship occurs when commodities (like food, mates, shelters, etc.) are scarce and there are not enough to go around for all members which need them. In general, all involved members of the relationship are harmed by this interaction. (05 Jan 1998) |
| competition hybridisation | <molecular biology, technique> A lab technique used to determine how similar two strands of single-stranded nucleic acids are to each other by putting them with a third strand (called a standard) and observing how well they can bond with each other to become double-stranded (how well they hybridize). (05 Jan 1998) |
| interspecific competition | <ecology, zoology> Competition between different species for nutrients, space, light, etc. (09 Oct 1997) |
| intraspecific competition | A type of competition whereby an individual plant competes with one or more members of the same species for nutrients, space, light, etc. (09 Oct 1997) |
| economic competition | The effort of two or more parties to secure the business of a third party by offering, usually under fair or equitable rules of business practice, the most favourable terms. (12 Dec 1998) |