HMOs 

• Market Forces and Unsponsored Research in Academic Health Centers (JAMA: 3/24/99)
• Managed Care And Physicians Provision of Charity Care (JAMA: 3/24/99)
• HMOs and Medicare
• Medicaid Managed Care: New Guide Highlights State Trends
• American Association of Health Plans decries Fairness Gap in Payments
• Insurance Rating Co. Predicts Bumpy Road
• Report on Medicare HMOs by the GAO: Information Standards Would Help Beneficiaries Make More Informed Health Plan Choices. (U.S. Government Accounting Office, May 1998)
• Report on Medicare HMOs by GAO finds high disenrollment rate (U.S. Government Accounting Office, April 1998)
• Medicare and Managed Care (Health Care Financing Administration)
• Medicare HMO Disenrollment (Families USA report: 12/97)
• Managed Care Provisions of Balanced Budget Act of 1997
• The Final Frontier: Medicare HMOs (Physicians for National Health Program: 12/97
• HMOs and Medicaid
• Medicaid Managed Care (Health Care Financing Administration)
  Provides extensive data on a) enrollment and penetration rates, by state as of June 30, 1995 and June 30, 1996; b) 1915b waiver quarterly reports; c) national summary of waiver programs; d) waiver application instructions and e) fact sheets.  
• Comprehensive State Health Reform Demonstrations (Section 1115 Waivers)
  Provides U.S. map of current status of waivers by state and state-by-state descriptions of waivers implemented, approved, denied and received for review.
  
• Medicaid Clearinghouse (Families USA)
• Medicaid Managed Care Resource Center (National Academy of State Health Policy)
  Provides a centralized source from which technical assistance is provided to states in meeting the challenges presented by these growing programs.
  
• Marketing and Enrollment in Medicaid Managed Care (Families USA fact sheet)
• Questions for States Turning to Medicaid Managed Care (Urban Institute)
• Negotiating the New Health Care System: A Nationwide Study of Managed Care Contracts
  Database provides analysis of managed care contracts which allows search for specific Medicaid managed care contract language.
  
• Profits from Pain: Medicaid HMOs
  
• Individual State Initiatives
• Arizona
• Oregon Health Plan
• Evaluation of Oregon Medicaid Proposal (OTA: 1992)
• TennCare (Tennessee)
• Impact

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