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Medicaid Managed Care Reexamined is the most comprehensive independent report produced in recent years examining the status of managed care for Medicaid beneficiaries in New York. It updates the Fund's landmark 2003 report Medicaid Managed Care in New York: A Work in Progress. While managed care has been promoted since the early 1990s as a way to improve quality of care while controlling growth in spending, “there are still surprisingly few efforts to examine how well the program is achieving its basic goals,” says the report. It also identifies several challenges that hinder Medicaid managed care from achieving its overarching goals, including the relatively weak position of health plans to modify provider behavior and the negative impact of frequent enrollment turnover on the coordination of care.