• Skip to content
  • Skip to main navigation
  • Skip to search
shriver center >  service >  Community Family Services

Managed Care Handbook

Table of Contents
Title Page .
Preface .
Acknowledgments .
Why the Managed Care Handbook? 1
A New Paradigm of Health Care Delivery 3
What is Managed Care 4
Types of Managed Care 5
Medicaid Managed Care 6
Potential Benefits/Limitations of Managed Care 7
Questions to Consider When Choosing a Health Care Plan 8
10 Things You Can Do to be an Empowered Consumer 9
Common Questions and Answers 10
Medicaid Managed Care Questions and Answers 12
Information and Referral
Disability Advocacy 13
Legal Advocacy 13
Health Care Advocacy 14
Family Advocacy & Resources 14
Resource and Referral Databases 15
Massachusetts State Resources 16
Printed Resource Guides 18
HMO Member Listing 19
Glossary 20
Common Abbreviations 23


Menu "Shriver" Begins - Skip Menu

  • Shriver Center Home
  • About the Shriver Center
  • Research
  • Education
  • Service
  • Shriver Center Faculty
  • Mental Retardation / Developmental Disabilities Research Center (MRDDRC)
  • University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD)
  • Center for Developmental Disabilities Evaluation & Research (CDDER)
  • Colloquium Series
  • Jobs at the Shriver Center
  • Post-Doctoral Positions
  • Shriver Center Site Map
Menu "Shriver" Ends
  • about UMMS
  • departments and centers
  • administration
  • directions
  • UMass system
  • index
  • intranet
  • directory
  • contact us
This is an official Page/Publication of the University of Massachusetts Worcester Campus
Shriver Center 200 Trapelo Road Waltham, Massachusetts 02452-6319
Questions or Comments? Email: shriver.center@umassmed.edu Phone: 781-642-0001
intranet
 
  • directory
  • contacts
  • index
This Section Only