Managed Healthcare Executive December 4, 2019
Although managed care has changed dramatically over the last 30 years, its essential value proposition is the same: deliver higher quality and lower costs compared with fee-for-service arrangements.
We refuse to accept a tradeoff between quality health outcomes and affordable care. Governments and taxpayers demand both. Patients deserve both. And it is a constant challenge to deliver both.
This year’s Managed Healthcare Executive State of the Industry Survey finds that nearly two-thirds (64%) of responding healthcare executives have made improving quality and lowering costs their organizations’ prime focus—but barely more than one in six (18%) think that healthcare quality and costs are improving. Nearly half (48%) believe that quality and costs are getting worse.
But managed care is up to...