Ethical Issues in Managed Health Care Organizations

Members of the Managed Health Care Community, Other Medical Professionals, and Business Executives Conclude a Two-Year Business Ethics Seminar With New Publication

Ethical Issues in Managed Health Care Organizations, Georgetown University Press, 1999, is the product of four conferences and a two-year discussion by members of the health care community, managed health care executives and administrators, ethicists, and business executives. Funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the seminar, sponsored by the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, focused on the special ethical dilemmas facing executives, managers, and others in managed health care organizations. This consensus statement distills these discussions and offers evaluations and recommendations for managed health care organization executives and managers on the difficult ethical issues and questions that confront them. A process for ethical decision making is included in the publication as well as case studies that can be used for teaching purposes in the managed health care environment. This is an excellent guide to ethical decision making for managed health care executives and managers and a valuable teaching tool for other health care decision makers, students in schools of health administration, hospital administrators, medical school faculty, and those who work with managed health care organizations and plans.

Participants in this Woodstock Theological Center Seminar in Business Ethics included: Robert Barnet, M.D., Carol Bayley, Ph.D., Richard H. Bernstein, M.D., Margaret M. Blair, Ph.D., Sheila Burke, R.N., William J. Byron, S.J., Edward O. Clarke, Esq., Mark Cloutier, M.P.H., M.P.P., James L. Connor, S.J., Martin F. Connor, Esq., Catherine DeAngelis, M.D., Horace B. Deets, Sr. Rosemary Donley, S.C., R.N., Ph.D., Sr. Patricia Eck, C.B.S., Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Mary Jane England, M.D., Alain Enthoven, Ph.D., Richard M. Fornadel, M.D., John D. Golenski, Ph.D., Hon. Willis Gradison, Jr., Ronald M. Green, Ph.D., Karen Hackett, F.A.C.H.E., C.A.E., James C. Haughton, M.D., M.P.H., Alan R. Hoops, Jeffrey Kang, M.D., M.P.H., J. Ward Kennedy, M.D., John P. Langan, S.J., John M. Ludden, M.D., George G. Lundberg, M.D., Glenn McGee, Ph.D., Michael J. Naughton, Ph.D., James L. Nolan, Esq., Eleanor Noone, R.N., M.S.N., Phil Nudelman, Margaret O'Kane, Dennis S. O'Leary, M.D., Hon. Henry Owen, Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., Rev. Michael Place, S.T.D., Charlie T. Pryde, G. Nicholas Rogentine, M.D., Bernard Rosof, M.D., Hon. Charles O. Rossotti, Raymond Scalettar, M.D., D.Sc., Leonard D. Schaeffer, Kevin A. Schulman, M.D., M.BA., Paul M. Schyve, M.D., Patrick J. Scollard, J. Michael Stebbins, Ph.D., Sr. Carol Taylor, C.S.F.N., Ph.D., Peter A. Ubel, M.D., Carey T. Vinson, M..D., Raymond B. Werntz, and Carolyn L. Yancey, M.D.

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