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Health Care Reform Through Medicaid Managed Care: Tennessee (Tenncare) As A Case Study And A Paradigm, James F. Blumstein, Frank A. Sloan
Health Care Reform Through Medicaid Managed Care: Tennessee (Tenncare) As A Case Study And A Paradigm, James F. Blumstein, Frank A. Sloan
Vanderbilt Law Review
TennCare is a Medicaid demonstration project that allows Tennessee to require all Medicaid beneficiaries to secure medical care through a mandatory managed care system. Enrollees contract with private managed care organizations ("MCOs'), which are responsible for organizing a network of care providers and delivering medical care to covered beneficiaries. Driven by rapidly escalating Medicaid costs, TennCare's mandatory managed care program has succeeded in saving money for the state in its Medicaid program. To secure the federal waiver that allowed the program to proceed, the state included non-Medicaid-eligible uninsured and uninsurable residents as TennCare beneficiaries. Federal matching funds accrue for all …