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Health Affairs, Vol 17, Issue 3, 152-168
Copyright © 1998 by Project HOPE

Journal Article

A broader vision for managed care, Part 1: Measuring the benefit to communities

For the past quarter-century managed care plans have been judged almost exclusively in terms of their influence on the health and health care of individual enrollees. However, policymakers are now paying attention to the ways in which health care organizations affect the broader well-being of their communities. These forms of "community benefit" emerged originally from legal criteria for tax exemption but are increasingly applied to all health care organizations, whatever their form of ownership. In this paper we identify different paradigms for defining community benefit and trace the factors that have encouraged or discouraged their application to health care. We suggest several strategies encouraging managed care plans to broaden their goals to include community benefit.

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