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Medicare+Choice in New York City
— so far, so good? | | Author(s) | Jennifer Stuber, Andrew Dennington, Brian Biles |
| Corporate Author | Commonwealth Fund |
| Publisher | The Commonwealth Fund, New York, 2002 |
| Pages | 23 pp (Field Report 548) |
| Source | The Commonwealth Fund, One East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021-2692, USA. www.cmwf.org |
| Keywords | Health services ; Long term ; Finance [care] ; Health insurance ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Medicare+Choice (M+C) program was created by the US Balanced Budget Act of 1997, to expand Medicare beneficiaries' choice of private health plans and offer them additional benefits such as prescription drug coverage. This study outlines how problems with the program nationally in the US - and also now present in New York - threaten the viability of Medicare managed care. According to the report, older and disabled health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees are soon likely to feel the effects of large-scale health plan withdrawals, premium increases, benefit reductions, and instability in provider networks. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021014201 B |
| Classmark | L: 4Q: QC: WPG: 7T |
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