Managed care does exist in Saudi Arabia but is not as prevalent as other countries.

Managed care does exist in Saudi Arabia but is not as prevalent as other countries.

Draft a paper analyzing the need for or against manage care in Saudi Arabia.

Be sure to include the following items:

1. Benefits of managed care;

2. Disadvantages of managed care;

3. Healthcare industries most affected by managed care;

4. Impact of managed healthcare on patients, physicians, and facilities; and

5. How managed care is working for other countries.

Your paper should meet the following structural requirements:

· The paper should be 7 pages in length, not including the cover sheet and reference page.

· Formatted according to APA.

· Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of 6 scholarly articles (within 5 years)

Sample Answer 

Introduction

The term ” managed care ” or ” managed healthcare ” is used in the United States to describe a group of activities ostensibly intended to reduce the cost of providing for profit health care while improving the quality of that care (“managed care techniques”). It has become the essentially exclusive system of delivering and receiving American health care since its implementation in the early 1980s, and has been largely unaffected by the Affordable Care Act of 2010…M.anaged Care is a health care delivery system organized to manage cost, utilization, and quality. Medicaid managed care provides for the delivery of Medicaid health benefits and additional services through contracted arrangements between state Medicaid agencies and managed care organizations (MCOs) that accept a set per member per month (capitation) payment for these services….