Medicaid managed care: can health plans survive on the government's payments?
The Clinton plan's emphasis on market-driven managed competition, coupled with ever-increasing Medicaid costs, has placed the U.S. health care system on the threshold of significant change. By limiting the growth of premiums, the plan will encourage insurers to negotiate managed care contracts with providers. In this article, the authors discuss how individual states, faced with increasing costs and stretched budgets, have attempted to administer Medicaid programs within a managed care system.
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Ernst & Young, Charlotte, NC.
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D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics*; D009922:Oregon; D011907:Rate Setting and Review / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013221:State Health Plans / Q000191:economics; D013714:Tennessee; D014481:United States