A decade ago, a team of researchers published a groundbreaking paper describing how Medicare managed-comprehend care could improve the quality of care provided by a community-based health-care system.
Today, the authors are working to extend the study to other settings and provide a more complete picture of how Medicaid managed-compensation can work in practice.
But the authors admit they’re still limited in how they can describe the experience.
And they say they’re also struggling to find the right words to describe the process, and how much of it they can get right.
The story of Medicaid managed care has been told and retold in the media, but we’re still learning a lot about what it means to work in Medicaid managed healthcare.
For instance, we have to work hard to understand the system as a whole.
This article was produced by Kaiser Health News and Kaiser Health Science Center.