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4 records match your search on "Plans (e.g., Medicare Advantage, Medicare + Choice, Prescription Drug)" - Showing 1 to 4
 

Continuation of Drug Risk Adjustment  (Report)
Drug Risk Adjustment

Author(s):  Claudia Schur, Jack Hoadley, Chris Hogan

Organization(s):  NORC (National Opinion Research Center)

This project reports on analysis using linked Medicaid and FEHBP data examining refinements to the risk adjustment factors for drug plans for low income and institutionalized populations; geographic variation in drug spending by health plan area; and prior use models of drug plan risk-adjustment.

Published:  December, 2006

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Analysis of the Characteristics of Medicare Advantage Plan Participation:  (Report)
Final Report

Author(s):  Marsha Gold and Stephanie Peterson

Organization(s):  Mathematica Policy Research

This project examines the Medicare Advantage (MA) products available in 2006, how they compare to past offerings when only local MA options were authorized, initial plan decisions and experiences under the new competitive bidding process, and how well available offers and enrollment meet Congress's overall objectives in enacting the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA).

Published:  July, 2006

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Medicare+Choice: Payment and Service Areas  (Report)
Final Report

Author(s):  Katie Merrell

Organization(s):  Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago

This report addresses two distinct, but closely related, questions: What are the key factors that led plans to reconfigure their Medicare risk plan service areas in 1998 or to not renew their contracts with Medicare? Should Medicare continue to allow plans to design their own Medicare service areas, or should there be predetermined Medicare+Choice contract areas in each market area?

Published:  May, 2000

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State Regulatory Experience with Provider-Sponsored Organizations  (Report)

Author(s):  The Lewin Group

Organization(s):  The Lewin Group

This report describes the experience of selected state governments in regulating provider-owned health care delivery systems that accept insurance risk for the provision or arrangement of health care services. We refer to these entities as Provider-Sponsored Organizations (PSOs). The primary sources of the information used for this report were interviews with regulators, hospital and physician association representatives, and managed care industry representatives in nine selected states. The states included in the study are: California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.

Published:  June, 1997

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