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September 1, 2006 | 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.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Consumers Union of the United States created the 568-page Consumer Reports Complete Guide to Health Services for Seniors, which was published by Three Rivers Press in 2000.
August 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The National Academy of Sciences - Institute of Medicine (IOM) developed recommendations on how to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries have adequate information and protections when they consider enrolling in managed care plans.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The University of Oregon determined the key types of knowledge necessary if Medicare beneficiaries are to make informed choices among expanded health plan options.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Medica Health Plan created the Volunteer Investment Program to match healthy plan member volunteers with Medicare members who required companionship, help with chores, grocery shopping and other special services.
October 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
Before having heart surgery at the age of 78, Mae was content to live alone in an apartment, managing her diabetes, and doing all of her own cooking, cleaning and driving.
October 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
John had chronic physical health problems and mental health issues so bad that he could barely get dressed.
October 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
Taking care of Manual, an 84-year-old senior with Alzheimer's disease, was more than his daughter Mary Jo and her mom, Maria, could handle. Reluctantly, they placed Manual in a nursing home.
October 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
For Richard and Bev, married 57 years, the task of raising hundreds of foster children over a lifetime was easy compared to dealing with the health problems they faced as they grew older.
April 1, 2005 | 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.