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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 2-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: TRENDS IN MANAGED CARE
Trends in Managed Care
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Trends in Managed Care
Medicare may be defined as all activities and techniques related to facilitating the
reduction of the cost of healthcare as ensuring its quality. In the United States, myriad changes
have and continue to be implemented in a bid to better healthcare service delivery. Notably,
several trends have had the most significant impact on the healthcare system. To start with is
mobile health; the current age can be described as the digital age, technology has taken hold and
has been incorporated into all aspects of service delivery (Myers, 2015). Notably the old and the
young generation have embraced technology to fulfill the need for access and dissemination of
information. Healthcare systems and institutions have now shifted to the use of technology when
attending to their patient...
