Assignment: Managed Care
Throughout the course, you have been learning about managed care, both past and present. Conduct additional research on trends happening in managed care today. The following websites are a great place to start:
o Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
o Kaiser Family Foundation (Search for the series on health care marketplace trends.)
You can also visit the following videos related to managed care trends:
Managed Care contracting and Payer Scorecards
Monitoring Performance: A Dashboard of Medi-Cal Managed Care
After conducting your research, construct a 3 pages report of your findings. At a minimum, your report should
o Identify at least two trends that you feel have a great impact on managed health care today.
o Discuss the effect these trends have on managed care.
o Explain how these trends will continue to influence managed care in the future.
o Evaluate the potential impact on government and state sponsored, Medicare and Medicaid programs.
o Analyze and provide at least two reasons why implementing Medicaid managed care is so complex.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.