[What are the economic advantages of Integrated Health Care?]

Integrated Health Care and Managed Health Care are both tools to implement broader responsibilities of health care providers for the economic efforts of their activities. While Managed Care is quite common in the United States of America, experiences with such systems are sparse in Europe and Germany. With Integrated Health Care, new types of markets will emerge: not only a market for health care services, but also for insurance contracts, and for provision of care. The paper discusses different incentives arising from different health care systems.