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February 1, 2010 | Report
A 2010 update of the RWJF’s 2002 chartbook, Chronic Care: Making the Case for Ongoing Care examines the impact of chronic conditions on individuals and their caregivers, as well as the inadequacies of the U.S. health care system to meet their needs.
August 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
Georgetown University assisted in identifying how RWJF could help organizations strengthen consumer information and education initiatives that would be undertaken in local communities to help residents understand Medicare+Choice.
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.
March 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Laguna Research Associates under the direction of Nelda McCall studied the initial impact of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) on Medicare beneficiaries, home health agencies and the health care system overall.
July 1, 2004 | Journal Article
In 2003 citizens of Canada, the United Kingdom, and France paid an average of 34-59 percent of what Americans paid for a similar market basket of pharmaceuticals. This paper explores some issues surrounding the infamous "doughnut hole" in the new Me ...
June 12, 2013 | Report
A brief from the Dartmouth Atlas Project examines how the care that chronically ill patients received at the end of life changed among hospitals and regions from 2007 to 2010.
January 17, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Health Insurance Reform Project worked with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to help design a program to improve the quality of care and life for people with multiple chronic illnesses.
April 12, 2011 | Report
Chronicallyill Medicare patients spent fewer days in the hospital and received more hospice care in 2007 than they did in 2003, but at the same time there was an increase in the intensity of care for patients who were hospitalized, according to a Dartmouth Atlas Project report.
July 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
In a survey of more than 2,100 dual Medicare/Medicaid enrollees in six states, researchers found that 25 percent of all hospitalizations within one year were preventable.
October 26, 2005 | Program Result Report
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine tested whether growth in the market penetration of managed care organizations and incentives they use to control costs have a spillover effect on the health care received by Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.