Medicaid Managed Care - U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

Medicaid Managed Care - U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Medicaid Managed Care - U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

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144 Center for Health Program Development and Management, UMBC ong>Medicaidong> is the quality "canary" * The acid test of managed care's ability to manage "the sick" -- the most stressed populations, low resource levels, Federal and State bureaucracy * Failure will look like the nursing home scandals of the '70s * Success will look like DRGs: the managed care theory survives Center for Health Program Developnrnt and Manag.mem. UMBC _

145 MONITORING HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR CHRONICALLY ILL, ELDERLY AND POOR PATIENTS: LESSONS FROM THE MEDICAL OUTCOMES STUDY (MOS) John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D. Senior Scientist and Director, Health Assessment Lab The Health Institute at New England Medical Center Research Piufessui, Tufts Medical School and Adjunct Professor, Harvard School of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts ong>Senateong> ong>Specialong> ong>Committeeong> on Aging Panel on Quality and Outcome Measures Dirksen ong>Senateong> Office Building, Washington, DC July 15, 1997 What is the Relationship Between Health ong>Careong> and Health Benefit? Health Outcome Health ong>Careong> Resources ($) sen7l597.pptp. 1

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Center for Health Program Development and Management, UMBC<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>Medicaid</str<strong>on</strong>g> is the quality "canary"<br />

* The acid test of managed care's ability<br />

to manage "the sick" -- the most<br />

stressed populati<strong>on</strong>s, low resource<br />

levels, Federal and State bureaucracy<br />

* Failure will look like the nursing home<br />

scandals of the '70s<br />

* Success will look like DRGs: the<br />

managed care theory survives<br />

Center for Health Program Developnrnt and Manag.mem. UMBC _

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