January 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1998, People-to-People Health Foundation, Millwood, Va., examined the management tools and strategies that managed care organizations use to influence technologies used by primary care physicians — including how to prescribe drugs and make referrals to specialists.
August 22, 2008
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Program Result Report
The number of Medicare beneficiaries enrolling in managed care has increased since the passage of the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) and the establishment of Medicare Advantage Plans in 2003.
March 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
In 2000, the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute of Portland, Ore. held a conference on cost-effectiveness analysis and managed care.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, researchers at the University of Alabama studied the effect of any willing provider (AWP) and freedom of choice (FOC) laws on Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and employers.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
Researchers looked at how managed care penetration in given geographic areas affected the diffusion and use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a technology that allows physicians to obtain clear pictures of patients' internal structures.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
To understand the effect of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) on both competition and consumers, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, examined data on more than 500 HMOs operating in the United States from 1986 through 1993, focusing on the 90 mergers for which data were available.
April 1, 2002
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Program Result Report
From 1997 to 1999, researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research examined the political structures that states adopt to create and implement Medicaid managed-care (MMC) programs.
October 25, 2002
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Program Result Report
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing conducted planning activities for its State Children's Health Insurance Program, called Child Health Plan Plus.
July 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
The National Health Foundation led a coalition of private sector organizations to test the feasibility of developing a low-cost primary care-only insurance product for uninsured Los Angeles County residents.
August 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1998, researchers at the Urban Institute conducted a study of the District of Columbia's 11 major acute-care facilities, focusing also on the Medicaid system and long-term care for the elderly.
