Medicaid and Other Experiments in State Health Policy (Aei Studies, 437)

This case-study collection is a must-read for health policy scholars and state officials navigating Medicaid reform, cost containment, and managed care, as Rosemary Gibson Kern and Susan R. Windham dissect Massachusetts' landmark experiments in case management, capitation, freedom of choice waivers, and global hospital budgeting under OBRA 1981, offering lessons on balancing fiscal equity, quality assurance, and patients' access to care that remain vital to today's debates over state health policy and Medicaid cost control. 

This book examines two experiments in Massachusetts, outlining some of the key elements of their successes and failures. It also examines a different approach to cost containment-the development of the global hospital budgeting system.