Managed Care and Health Insurance Assignment | Healthcare
Review the Kohatsu, Payne, and Subramania article, “The Few Winner from Medicaid’s Shift to Managed Care .”(https://www.strategy-business.com/article/The-Few-Winners-from-Medicaids-Shift-to-Managed-Care?gko=5c6e4)
Using data provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation Medicaid Managed Care Market Tracker (https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/total-medicaid-mcos/?activeTab=map¤tTimeframe=0&selectedDistributions=total-medicaid-mcos&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D),
please identify three states that have not transitioned their Medicaid programs to the managed care model and three states that have shifted their Medicaid program to managed care.
Then complete the following for your essay:
Research the three states that have shifted their Medicaid programs to the managed care model and discuss their successes and challenges.
Should the CMS mandate Medicaid managed care programs for every state? What are some of the pros and cons and arguments from the perspectives of states, the CMS, and the Medicaid beneficiaries?