Medicaid managed care services were primarily concentrated across few providers, prompting questions about network adequacy standards needing to be beefed up, a new study claims. The study, published ...

Medicaid managed care network adequacy standards exhibit significant heterogeneity across regions and specialties, potentially creating large variations in health care access and quality. Objectives: ...

Medicaid managed care services are mainly concentrated across a handful of providers in a trend that's happening at a time when the managed care space is becoming more lucrative for health insurance ...

Quantitative Medicaid managed care network adequacy standards were not associated with improved mental health (MH) care access among adults and those with MH conditions. Objectives: Medicaid is the ...

Medicaid managed care insurers play a crucial role in facilitating access to buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder. Using a novel set of provider directory and prescription claims data, we ...

States have increasingly outsourced the provision of Medicaid services to private managed care plans. To ensure that plans maintain access to care, many states set network adequacy standards that ...