What Is the Motivation Behind the Cost-Control Features of Managed

question 5

Multiple Choice

What is the motivation behind the cost-control features of managed care?

• A) To ensure access to specialty care through general practitioner gatekeepers.
• B) To influence the way physicians practice medicine by changing the financial incentive structure of medical care delivery.
• C) to shift the financial risk onto patients.
• D) to eliminate all the guesswork from diagnoses by establishing practice guidelines.
• E) to create competition by providing patients with a wide range of providers.

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