| Summary: | In Malaysia, the integration of managed care in health insurance has gained popularity in these last few years. Managed care in health insurance is believed to have positive effect as it emphasizes on preventive care and control costs. This paper is to evaluate whether managed care has had a positive effect on the quality of care provided by insurance companies, by comparing the rates of performance on preventive care including women health in managed care individual health insurance and non-managed care individual health insurance plan. For all measures, managed care rates are statistically higher than non-managed ones.
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