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Medicaid Managed Care in Texas

What Have We Learned from the Pilots?

The University of Texas-Houston, School of Public Health

Pat L. Wong

The University of Texas-Austin, Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs

Ann L. Abboti

Lu Ann Aday

The University of Texas-Houston, School of Public Health

Texas has a planforstatewide implementation of Medicaid managed care by 2001. This article presents evidence from initial demonstration projects, which were implemented in 1993. The Ist-year experience is described and preliminary effects are examined in terms of reactions of clients and providers and changes in utilization patterns and costs of care. Results of the evaluation indicate implementation difficulties with several operational aspects of managed care, variable effects in terms of client and provider reaction to the reform, and little or no change in utilization patterns, but significant cost-savings to the state. Because of the implementation difficulties identified by the evaluation and the mixed results regarding effects, further research is recommended to determine the potential benefit of this reform.

Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 20, No. 3, 302-323 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/016327879702000304


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