Trends in Managed Care
Conduct additional research on trends happening in managed care today. The following websites are a great place to start:Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesKaiser 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 ScorecardsMonitoring Performance: A Dashboard of Medi-Cal Managed CareAfter conducting your research, construct a 3-page report in APA format of your findings. At a minimum, your report shouldIdentify at least two trends that you feel have a great impact on managed health care today.Discuss the effect these trends have on managed care.Explain how these trends will continue to influence managed care in the future.Evaluate the potential impact on government and state sponsored, Medicare and Medicaid programs.Analyze and provide at least two reasons why implementing Medicaid managed care is so complex.
