KFF Health News March 5, 2018
Rachel Garfield, Elizabeth Hinton, Elizabeth Cornachione, and Cornelia Hall

Managed care organizations (MCOs) cover nearly two-thirds of all Medicaid beneficiaries nationwide,1making managed care the nation’s dominant delivery system for Medicaid enrollees. As the entities responsible for providing comprehensive Medicaid benefits to enrollees by contracting with providers, plans play a critical role in shaping access to care for Medicaid enrollees. Many plan actions are dictated by state policy or contracting requirements; however, plans also have some flexibility to design payment and delivery systems and structure enrollees’ experiences using their coverage. To understand how Medicaid managed care plans approach access to care and the challenges they face in ensuring such access, the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a survey of plans in 2017. Highlights from the full survey report are below:

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