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Out-of-pocket health care expenses for Medicare HMO beneficiaries
— estimates by health status, 1999-2001 | | 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 494) |
| Source | The Commonwealth Fund, One East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021-2692, USA. |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Expenditure [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The availability of pharmaceutical benefits and coverage for Medicare's cost sharing requirements at relatively low premiums has attracted Medicare beneficiaries to managed care plans. However, managed care benefits are shrinking, and Medicare has reduced its annual increases in payments to health plans. This paper explores the effect of these changes on enrollees, by examining trends in out-of-pocket expenses particularly as they vary with beneficiaries' health status. The paper is accompanied by a Briefing note, "Medicare+Choice 1999-2001: an overview of managed care plan withdrawals and out-of-pocket expenses". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020520221 B |
| Classmark | LLD: J3: 7T |
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