| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Medicare+Choice 1999-2001
— an analysis of managed care plan withdrawals and trends in benefits and premiums | | Author(s) | Lori Achman, Marsha Gold |
| Corporate Author | Commonwealth Fund |
| Publisher | Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY, 2002 |
| Pages | 34 pp (Program on Medicare's future, ref 497) |
| Source | The Commonwealth Fund, One East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021-2692, USA. |
| Keywords | Health services ; Costs [care] ; Charges ; Usage [services] ; Consumer ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Enrolment in Medicare managed care plans grew during the 1990S, driven by the availability of benefits designed to complement Medicare's exclusion and limits at relatively little cost. However, since the Balanced Budget Act 1997 (BBA) and Medicare+Choice, many plans have left the program, while others have substantially reduced the generosity of the benefits offered. This report presents a comparison of withdrawn plans and remaining plans, based on data from the Center for Medicine and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Medicare Compare. It looks at the impact of the Benefits Improvement and Performance Act 2000 (BIPA) on trends in benefits and premiums to March 2001. Without reform of the entire benefit package, Medicare managed care organisations (MCOs) cannot provide a long-term solution to the deficiencies of the package. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020520220 B |
| Classmark | L: QDC: QEJ: QLD: WY: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|