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Working Papers

 

2006

 

Safety Net Health Plans: Critical Partners in the Health Care Safety Net --April 2006

 

Medicaid Capitation Expansion's Potential Cost Savings, Lewin Group -- April 18, 2006

 

Rate Setting and Actuarial Soundness in Medicaid Managed Care by the Lewin Group, January 23, 2006

 

2005

 

 ACAP Best Practices in Specialty Provider Recruitment and Retention: A Report of Common Provider Network Challenges and the Actions Health Plans Have Taken to Address Them,  by Karen Brodsky and funded by the Commonwealth Fund.  A Table of Challenges and Actions is also available.

 

Medicaid Managed Care:  Looking Forward, Looking Back by National Academy of State Health Policy, June 2005.

 

2004


Business Opportunities in the Medicare Modernization Act for Medicaid Focused Plans by the Lewin Group, November 2004

 

State Budget Cuts and Medicaid Managed Care: Case Studies in Four States released by the National Association for State Health Policy, June 2004

 

2003

 

Promoting Disease Prevention in Health Plans: Information Systems and Technology Assessment by the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and the Association for Health Center Affiliated Health Plans (AHCAHP), October 2003. IT Prevention Assessment Survey submitted to AHCAHP plans for this study.

 

Medicaid-Focused Health Plans: A Community Health Conspiracy by Robert E. Hurley, June 2003

 

The Good Olde Days of Fee for Service Were Not So Good After All: Managed Care Has Made Things Better by Vern Smith and Linda Hamacher, May 2003.

 

Extending the Federal Drug Rebate to Medicaid MCOs: Analysis of Impacts by The Lewin Group, May 2003.

 

Comparison of Medicaid Pharmacy Costs and Usage between the Fee-for-Service and Capitated Settings by Nancy Beronja, Joel Menges and Meg Murray, January 2003.

 

2002

 

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER PLANS: 1998 AND 1999 HEDIS SCORES CONFIRM HIGH PERFORMANCE by Margaret Murray, March 2002 (You will need adobe acrobat to read this).

 

"COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER AFFILIATED HEALTH PLANS: A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE FOR MEDICAID MANAGED CARE?" by Ann Zuvekas. (You will need adobe acrobat to read this).