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National and local factors driving health plan withdrawals from Medicare+Choice
— analyses of seven Medicare+Choice markets | | Author(s) | Jennifer Stuber, Geraldine Dallek, Brian Biles |
| Corporate Author | Commonwealth Fund; Center for Health Services Research and Policy, George Washington University Medical Center |
| Publisher | The Commonwealth Fund, New York, 2001 |
| Pages | 16 pp (Field report) (Program on Medicare's future, ref 491) |
| Source | The Commonwealth Fund, One East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA. www.cmwf.org |
| Keywords | Health services ; Costs [care] ; Charges ; Usage [services] ; Consumer ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The future of Medicare+Choice, Medicare's managed care programme, is in question. Beneficiary enrolment has declined from 6.3 million in 1999 to less than 5.7 million in 2001. This report examines reasons for withdrawals in seven Medicare+Choice markets: Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St Paul, New York, Tampa-St Petersburg, and Tucson. Reasons include: increases in use and costs of medical care, such as prescription drugs; health care providers' unwillingness to accept capitated payment rates; lack of local decision-making regarding plan viability; fears of adverse selection; and low market share. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020513221 B |
| Classmark | L: QDC: QEJ: QLD: WY: 7T |
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