US: Medicaid Managed Care for Foster Care Children and Youth: A Natural Experiment with Little Transparency (Commentary)
Georgetown University Center for Children and Families – October 12, 2021
There’s a natural experiment underway involving a highly vulnerable population: children and youth in foster care. The experiment is a test of whether MCO/FCs outperform other ways of furnishing needed health care to this population. No, MCO/FCs are not a soccer team in the English Premier League. The initialism stands for Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) that enroll only children and youth in foster care (FC) and similar groups (e.g., justice-involved youth). So how is the experiment going? Because there’s so little transparency, we just don’t know.
https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2021/10/12/medicaid-managed-care-for-foster-care-children-and-youth-a-natural-experiment-with-little-transparency/