Managed Care Comes To Social Services – Some Advice From The Field

Yesterday, my colleagues Monica E. Oss and Howard Shiffman looked at the continued expansion of managed care – this time to include children in the child welfare systems (see Ohio & Illinois The Latest To Link Child Welfare System & Managed Care). Those of us whose careers have been spent on the social service (rather than health care) side of the health and human service field have been relatively unaffected by managed care – and it hasn't been a significant strategic issue to deal with until now.

The “threat” of managed care in child welfare goes back at least to the . . .