Current Trends and Issues in Managed Care
Current Trends and Issues in Managed Care
Using the South University Online library or the Internet, research on a series of topics that will help you understand the current issues regarding managed care. You can use keywords, such as (but not limited to) managed care, current trends and issues in managed care, pharmacy benefit management, or utilization management. Like many other aspects of health care, managed care is continually changing and evolving to meet current consumer and market demands. For Project C, you will address the following topics:
A. Pharmacy Benefit Management.
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B. Utilization Management.
Use the following guidelines for each topic:
1) Describe and evaluate the market forces, current trends, and changes in drug benefit programs over the last fifteen years.
2) Discuss basic approaches and techniques used in utilization management.
3) Analyze the future of utilization management approaches. How might they change and why?
4) Justify your ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from reputable and scholarly texts, websites, and other references.
Directions to student: Discuss (in no less than 999 words) both the Pharmacy Benefit Management and Utilization Management platforms into four substantive paragraphs 250 words each. Make sure you address the subject topics within the context of the COVID-19. Make sure you include at least four APA-formatted citations/references to include an introduction/conclusion. Submit your work to the Discussion Area.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.