title: Rural providers have tough row to hoe if they jump into Medicaid risk too quickly.
abstract: Learn some lessons in rural managed Medicaid from a provider-owned plan. Upper Peninsula Health Plan, based in Marquette, MI, discovered that introducing managed care to providers through their own rural Medicaid plan is full of surprises. Find out what to expect--and what to avoid--from a plan that's learning the hard way.
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000368:Aged; D003284:Contract Services; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008824:Michigan; D020414:Risk Sharing, Financial; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States; D014922:Wisconsin