Advances in Health Care Management
Call for Papers
IN SEARCH OF Transparency: Managerial and policy perspectives on PricE, Cost, OPERATIONS, and QUALITY IN Health Care organizations
Deadline for 1-5 page Proposals: ` August 1, 2015
Deadline for Initial Manuscript Submissions: October 1, 2015
Series Editors: Leonard Friedman, PhD, George Washington University, friedmal@gwu.edu
Jim Goes, PhD, University of Phoenix and Walden University, jim@cybernos.com
Grant T. Savage, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, gsavage@uab.edu
Advances in Health Care Management, a research series published by Emerald Publishing Group, is pleased to announce a volume reviewing managerial and policy perspectives on price, cost operational, and quality transparency in health care organizations, with publication planned in July 2016. We seek both empirical and conceptual articles on the impact of various forms of transparency for different health care stakeholders, whether providers, consumers, insurers, or purchasers.
The Affordable Care Act in the United States mandates various forms of price transparency, in part, as a means to encourage value-based purchasing and bundled payments. However, cost and operational transparency initiatives both in and outside the U.S. are of operational and strategic interest to both health care providers and executives. The intended and unintended consequences of these emerging practices and policies clearly need to be understood and evaluated. Thus, the topics of interest for this volume may include, but are not limited to the:
· Impact of price transparency for medical groups, hospitals, nursing homes, and other care settings.
o How are policy directives to make prices transparent changing health care management practices?
o What are the intended and unintended consequences of price transparency for different stakeholders, such as consumers, providers, purchasers, and insurers?
· Impact of measures for quality transparency in medical groups, hospitals, nursing homes, and other care settings.
o What measures of quality are being made transparent for different stakeholders, such as consumers, providers, purchasers, and insurers?
o How are policy directives designed to make quality transparent changing health care management practices? What are the intended and unintended consequences?
· Impact of cost transparency for medical groups, hospitals, nursing homes, and other care settings
o How are management directives to make costs transparent changing health care management practices?
o What are the intended and unintended consequences of cost transparency for different stakeholders, such as providers, support staff, consumers, and insurers?
· Impact of operational transparency for medical groups, hospitals, nursing homes, and other care settings
o What operational data are shared internally to achieve financial, clinical, and mission-related outcomes for healthcare organizations?
o How is operational data gathered, organized, and deployed internally to achieve strategic goals?
Guidelines
Articles should orient new and established scholars about one or more of the transparency issues noted above. Authors may evaluate current practices and/or policies, highlighting intended and/or unintended consequences. We encourage authors to explore emerging themes, as well as divergent views, on the value of transparency for health care organizations. Importantly, authors should focus on how transparency affects the practice of health care management, and ways that health care management could (or should) be improved. Both empirical (qualitative or quantitative) and theoretical papers are invited.
Key Dates
August 1, 2015 1-5 page proposal due
October 1, 2015: Draft manuscripts due
November/December, 2015: Reviews returned to authors
February 1, 2015: Final manuscripts due
May 2016: AHCM volume 18 published
All papers will be double-blind reviewed. The editors will select the papers for this volume on a competitive basis, based on the recommendations of the reviewers. Specific guidelines for submission are provided on the next page. Your email should request that the manuscript be specifically considered for volume 18. Do not submit a manuscript until given explicit approval by the editors. All materials should be prepared in MS Word and submitted to Dr. Friedman at friedmal@gwu.edu .
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Jim Goes
Series Editor
Advances in Health Care Management
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* jim@cybernos.com