Trends in Managed Care

Throughout the course, you have been learning about managed care, both past and present. Conduct additional research on trends happening in managed care today. The following websites are a great place to start:

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Kaiser Family Foundation:www.kff.org (Search for the series on health care marketplace trends.)

Write a 1-2 page report in which you answer the following questions.

1. Identify 2 trends that you feel have a great impact on managed health care today. Discuss the effect these trends have on managed care.
2. How will these trends continue to influence managed care in the future?

Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the ".docx" extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:

Jstudent_exampleproblem_101504

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