Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The Medicaid program is one of the largest social insurance programs in the United States, providing health insurance to approximately 67 million poor and disabled people. In order to reduce the program's costs, several states now mandate that most or all of their Medicaid beneficiaries enroll in comprehensive managed care plans. This is a proposal to evaluate Florida's experience with mandated managed care. In 2005, the Florida legislature passed Senate Bill 838 to roll out a Medicaid reform pilot.