managed care and third-party payers, the basic components of insurance, law homework help

managed care and third-party payers, the basic components of insurance, law homework help

Throughout this week, you read about managed care and third-party payers, the basic components of insurance.

Up until recent years the only options for the uninsured, if they qualified for it, were Medicare and Medicaid. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the landscape of insurance is changing.

For this week’s written assignment, read the following article:

Hamel, M.B., Blumenthal, D., Abrams, M., & Nuzum, R. (2015) http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMhpr1503614#t=article. The New England Journal of Medicine, 372, 2451-2458. Retrieved from http://www.nejm.org

After reading the article, answer the following questions:

  1. What are your initial thoughts from the article?