Pros And Cons Of Managed Care Organizations (MCO)

My main point was to focus on the cons of Managed Care Organizations (MCO) and their impact on how and where nursing care is provided, after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Potter and Perry (2017) claim that the ACA will force more nurses to provide service in community-based care settings, potentially required to relocate or begin jobs in order to “practice in community care centers, schools, and senior centers” (p. 7). With the ACA, it is now the requirement of a nurse to overcome many challenges in order to provide “patients with the best-quality care in an efficient and economically sound manner” (Potter & Perry, 2017, p. 7). As health care cost continue to rise, nurses must find new ways to adequately utilize health care and patient resources in a wise manner, different than has ever been done before (Potter & Perry, 2017, p. 7).
Discussion and Findings In order to make my first bibliography card, the book Potter, P. & Perry, A. (2017). Fundamentals of Nursing (9th ed.). Mosby – Elsevier as my source.
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Potter & Perry (2017) seek to answer some of these questions regarding cost of care. Hospitals who provide services for patients with Medicare and Medicaid “receive a set dollar amount for each patient based on the assigned diagnosis-related groups, regardless of the patient’s length of stay or use of services” (p. 15). Therefore, in order to compensate for receiving less money for certain patients care costs, other citizens within the community, not using Medicare or Medicaid, are seeing an increase in the costs for the care services they are provided with when needed. It is the goal of many states to try and stop care costs from increasing, in an attempt to return these increased costs to the lower amount that they were prior to the