Managed Care, Medicaid and the Elderly: Five State Case Studies

摘要

Increasingly, states are turning to managed care to deliver health services toMedicaid recipients. In a 1994 survey of states conducted by the National Academy for State Heath Policy, 16 states reported that they enroll elders in Medicaid managed care programs. A few states (Arizona, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah) require mandatory enrollment and others allow elders to voluntarily select a managed care plan. Still other states plan to include mandatory enrollment of SSI recipients in a subsequent phase of their programs (eg., Hawaii, Ohio, Oklahoma), In addition, states are in various stages of including long term care services as part of a benefit package available through managed care. A number of states have