Your essay should be approximately 250 words on the following topic:
Managed care benefit plans are increasing in popularity in recent years, and the most typical managed care plans are HMOs and PPOs.
- Define each type of managed care plan.
- Compare and contrast
- how providers are paid by each plan.
- flexibility of each plan in terms of choosing a health care provider in and out of network.
- usage of gatekeepers.
- If you had to choose one of these types of plans for your own benefits coverage, which would you choose and why?