Medicaid Reform
Turning Medicaid Beneficiaries into Purchasers of Health Care: Critical Success Factors for Medicaid Consumer-Directed Health Purchasing, August 2006This issue brief is an executive summary and update to the more comprehensive monograph dated January 2006 described immediately below.
Turning Medicaid Beneficiaries into Purchasers of Health Care: Critical Success Factors for Medicaid Consumer-Directed Health Purchasing, January 2006Many state policy makers are looking to apply the concepts of consumer-directed care to the Medicaid program, believing that a more engaged and at-risk consumer will use health care services more appropriately. This issue brief examines four critical success factors states should take into account when launching consumer-directed Medicaid reforms such as those proposed in Florida, South Carolina, and West Virginia.