title: Be prepared.
abstract: Remember back when Medicaid was Medicaid and Medicare was Medicare? These state and federal programs, which respectively provide medical assistance to low-income families and health insurance for individuals with disabilities and the elderly, were complicated enough when they became law as part of the Social Security Act in 1965. Now we've added managed care to the mix.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Franke
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D008484:Medicaid / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States