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

Table 5
Family Voices Survey on <strong>Managed</strong> <strong>Care</strong>
Family Responses on Overall Satisfaction and Costs
'N-323) ______
Total Seattle, WA Atlanta, GA Denver, CO DesMoines, IA
hild Needs' nd - N=323 n=104 nl17 n=52 n=S0
Health Plan Coveragej n % n n n % n %
Overall Evaluation of Child's Health Plan
Appropriate, quality services 161 53.7 53 53.0 68 65.4 17 35.4 23 47.9
Moderatelyappropriatequalityservices 89 29.7 31 31.0 22 21.2 20 41.7 16 33.3
Inadequate services 50 16.7 16 16.0 14 13.5 11 22.9 9 18.8
Child's Health Plan Covers Costa to Meet I
Child's Needs
Yes 141 46.7 45 44.6 56 52.8 22 45.8 18 38.3
Somewhat 129 42.7 ; 50 49.5 40 37.7 18 37.5 21 44.7
No 32 10.6 6 5.9 .10 9.4 8 16.7 8 17.0
Table 6
Family Voices Survey on <strong>Managed</strong> <strong>Care</strong>
Family Responses on Overall Satisfaction and Costs by Type of Health Plan
(N-193)*
No <strong>Managed</strong>
HMO PPr <strong>Care</strong>
Child Needs and n=78 n=80 n-35
Health Plan Coverage n % n % n %
Overall Evaluation of Child's Health Plan
Appropriate, quality services 36 46.2 46 57.5 22 62.9
Moderately appropriate, quality services 28 35.9 21 26.3 7 20.0
Inadequateservices 14 18.0 13 16.3 6 17.1
Child's Health Plan Coven Costs to Meet
Child's Needs
Yes 32 41.0 39 48.8 19 52.8
Somewhat 36 46.2 35 43.8 11 30.6
No 10 12.8 6 7.5 6 16.7
Respondents who Indicated thal their child is covered by more than onetrype of health pian or by a health polan
categorized as Other were not included in the analysisfar this table.
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