The Administration for Medical Doctors

Comparison between Japan and the US

Abstract

The concept of managed care depends on the idea that the insurer, instead of medical service consumer, should choose the medical providers. The market mechanism is used more popular in the US. It has negative effect on the interaction between consumer and provider/insurer. The medical Doctors (MDs) should work under this circumstance in the US. Contrary, the Japanese MDs are working under different circumstances. Some of the problems happened in medical field now may be originated from the lack of proper administration for MDs in Japan. In this article, the administrative methods will be discussed on the basis of the comparison between American methods and Japanese ones.