TennCare

Paper Summary:

The paper explains that despite increasing concerns about TennCare's cost and success, this program has provided health care coverage to people in Tennessee at high prices while benefiting the overall health care economy of Tennessee. This paper examines some of the events in the past years that have lead to the current situations involving TennCare and addresses the following questions commonly asked about the TennCare program: What is TennCare and why was it created? What is the history of TennCare? Who is eligible and what does it cost? In which ways has TennCare been more cost efficient than the previous Medicaid programs? Can we predict the future of TennCare?

Outline:
What is TennCare and Why Was it Created?
What is the History of TennCare?
Reform Begins
What is the Future of TennCare?

From the Paper:

"TennCare is Tennessee's Medicaid managed care demonstration. The TennCare program was implemented as a five-year demonstration program approved by the Federal Health Care Financing Administration. (HCFA); which is now known as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). The program received several extensions after the original expiration date of December 30, 1999. In July 2002, Tennessee began a new five-year TennCare demonstration program. TennCare was created in response to an already failing traditional Medicaid program and to help solve the state's budget problems. In 1993, Tennessee faced a budget shortfall of over $250 million caused by increases in Medicaid spending. State officials were forced to choose between massive cuts in spending or large tax increases."

Sample of Sources Used:

• TennCare Website. Retrieved May 8, 2006 from www.tenncare.gov.TennCare Timeline, 2005
• A Profile of Medicare: Chart Book 2000: Health Care Financing Administration, 2000. Pages 48-50 (Add publisher and copyright date of this book here)
• The Grier Report. (Include the website or name of publication where you found this report, the pubisher and the copyright. Also put the author's last name/first name before the title if this exist).
• Comparative Data Report on Medicaid, Southern Legislative Conference, 1999, p. xxvii. (Include the website or name of publication where you found this report, the pubisher and the copyright. Also put the author's last name/first name before the title if this exist).
• Conover, Christopher & Davies, Hester (Insert the name of the Publication and the publisher here), 2000.

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