Outline: Managed Care

Introduction

Attention Getter

Have you ever thought about the importance of managed care in transforming the American health system?
Managed care is made of healthcare providers like nurses, surgeons, hospitals, insurance companies, and the patients with an agreement to limit the health care providers the patients can access and thereby driving patients to these health care providers.
Managed care is a health insurance program that contracts healthcare providers to reduce healthcare costs for their members.

Thesis: This paper shall discuss one of the prevalent managed care myths of the managed care that is associated with the poor quality of care

Body

This myth has been around for a long time now and affected managed care organizations’ branding as an inefficient organization compared to the traditional fee for service care (Mintzberg, 2018).
The competition for patients made the doctors deal faster with patients visiting their offices for them to be capable of treating many patients who meant high income.
Main point 2

Doctors ignored some procedures and tests when dealing with patients to clear off many patients without wasting time on some tests that are deemed unnecessary but provided in the traditional forms of healthcare (Mintzberg, 2018).
Main Point 3

Research shows that the myth is not true and that these organizations provide high-quality healthcare at affordable prices
Research shows that most of the procedures and tests that these managed care organizations omit are worthy omitting because they serve little purpose in most patients cases

Conclusion

Myths and misconceptions are associated with this form of healthcare, many of which are not valid
The identified myth is that managed care lower the quality of healthcare
This myth came about due to the negative perspective that people had about the doctors that worked for managed care organizations

Reference

Mintzberg, H. (2018). Managing the myths of health care. In The Myths of Health Care (pp. 3-11). Springer, Cham.