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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:
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- 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-page report of your findings. At a minimum, your report should
- Identify 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.
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: HEALTH AND MEDICAL
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Trends in Managed Care
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HEALTH AND MEDICAL
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Trends in Managed Care
Market dynamics produce drastic systemic and operational improvements in the managed
care sector. With the challenging competitive costs of health benefits, healthcare providers have
been highly aggressive employees, government departments, and other healthcare clients
(Gottlieb et al. 2017). The reaction to the new healthcare trends in procurement techniques and
technological advancements has been a development increase for managed care for
organizations. In retrospect, managed care includes planning, tracking, assessing results, and
having patient service obligations in order to fulfill the buyer's expectations in terms of access to
service, the standard of care, reliability of service, and cost of medical care (Gottlieb et al. 2017).
The implementation and development of organizational wellness initiatives have altered the
organization of general health services and has started impacting the availability of reimbursed
mental wellbeing and alcohol abuse treatment in private and public. Because therapeutic
healthcare is delivered in primary and specialized environments and a separate, well-paid,
controlled structure for delivering behavioral services may shift the managed care sector in other
environments by integrating supervised healthcare into one environment (Gottlieb et al. 2017).
Two of the trends in managed care include mobile health and medication therapy management.
The effect these trends have on managed care
Under mobile care, managed care shifts from one-way education and instruction contact
into a customized conversation guided by participants. It may have face-to-face interac...