September 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
The Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs examined how Medicare beneficiaries fared after their health maintenance organizations (HMOs) closed, forcing them to seek new insurance coverage.
April 1, 2005
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Program Result Report
In 2003 investigators at New England Medical Center Hospitals, Boston, collected four-year follow-up data from a cohort of Medicare beneficiaries under study since 1998 to examine differences in health outcomes related to physical and mental health and death for beneficiaries enrolled in traditional fee-for-service Medicare versus those enrolled in Medicare HMOs.
January 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
From 1995 to 2003, the National Academy of Social Insurance convened seven study panels to examine issues pertaining to the restructuring of Medicare.
April 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
From 2002 to 2003, the Medicare Rights Center, New York, created and began pilot testing Medicare Interactive, a comprehensive online Medicare counseling, training and assistance system that primarily helps community-based agencies access health care benefits and services for their elderly and disabled clients.
March 10, 2008
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Program Result Report
The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 created prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries through regional stand-alone prescription drug plans and regional preferred provider organizations.
September 30, 1998
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Program Result Report
In 1997, the Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change convened leading health policy academics, practitioners, and policy-makers for a conference on the future of Medicare and then published a book of papers from the conference.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
During 1999 and 2000, Brenda Motheral, PhD, and researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center examined the impact that a cap (or limit) on prescription drug benefits has on the drug-taking behavior of beneficiaries ages 65 or older who are enrolled in Medicare HMO plans.
January 14, 2009
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Program Result Report
Minnesota's Department of Human Services planned, developed and implemented Minnesota Senior Health Options, a managed care program that blends funds from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
August 1, 2005
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Program Result Report
In 1997, Congress approved the Medicare+Choice program, which sought to contain costs and expand seniors' health plan choices by increasing access to managed care plans.
March 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
Between 1997 and 2001 Investigators at the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical Center, Hanover, N.H, conducted two research projects that examined how the increasing availability of health care technology and specialist physicians influence the delivery of health care and health outcomes.
