Southwest Medical Consulting, LLC

Benefits and Challenges of Medicaid Managed Care! We will discuss in depth the positives and negatives of managed medicaid. On paper, Medicaid is the best health plan anywhere. It covers almost every imaginable service, with zero payment due from the patient. In practice, the reality of Medicaid is quite different. Patients have insufficient access to health care providers and lack of coordination and continuity of care, mainly because of low payment rates; despite this, states and the federal government face rapid growth in total program costs. Beginning in 1982 and accelerating in the 1990s, states began to address these problems by contracting with private health insurance companies to provide care for at least some Medicaid beneficiaries through capitated contracts with what became known as Medicaid