One federal law amended the Social Security Act to allow states to set their own qualification standards for HMOs that contracted with state Medicaid programs and revised the requirement that participating HMOs have an enrollment mix of no more than 50% combined Medicare and Medicaid members.
This act, which was the true stimulus for increasing participation by health plans in Medicaid, is called the
The Wentworth Corporation uses a self-funded plan to provide its employees with healthcare benefits. One consequence of Wentworth's approach to providing healthcare benefits is that self-funding
Antitrust laws can affect the formation, merger activities, or acquisition initiatives of a health plan. In the United States, the two federal agencies that have the primary responsibility for enforcing antitrust laws are the
While traditional workers' compensation laws have restricted the use of managed care techniques, many states now allow managed workers' compensation. One common characteristic of managed workers' compensation plans is that they