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Market Share of Managed Care and Quality of Care
Increases in the market share of managed care are associated with decreases in expenditures in the fee-for-service sector, a phenomenon known as a "spillover effect." Because of concerns that lower expenditures result from reductions in necessary care, Keating et al. (p. 257) examined associations between increases in the market share of managed care and changes in the quality of care delivered to fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with breast or colorectal cancer. The authors found that increases in the market share of managed care were not associated with rates of surveillance mammography after diagnosis, radiation after breast-conserving
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