Assignment 2:

Managed Care Articles Summary and Position Pape

Locate one positive managed care article and one negative managed care article. Make sure you select articles about managed care delivery, not articles that simply discuss how managed care is becoming more prevalent in Medicaid.

After you have read the articles, think about your health insurance options now or in the future. Would you select a managed care option for your own health insurance? Defend your position in a 1-2 page paper (APA formatted, 12pt font, double-spaced). Make sure you include a title page and a References page for your sources.

Assignment 3:

Evidence-based Clinical Guidelines Exercise

A care management tool used by many MCOs is evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. AHRQ provides a national clearinghouse for summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. The clearinghouse is a public resource that is organized by clinical specialty.

Access the clearinghouse at https://www.guideline.gov.

Select a clinical specialty and then an evidence-based clinical guideline that you find interesting. Examine the provided summary.

Write a brief paragraph discussing what you learned about evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from reviewing the information.

How does the use of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines benefit patients?

How does this care management tool benefit providers?

Please complete the assignments 2 & 3 based on the instructions above.

Assignment 3 gives a website to use to complete the assignment. Assignment 2 can be done with the internet.