Health Care Financing Review

Title
Impact of HMO Withdrawals on Vulnerable Medicare Beneficiaries
First Author
Schoenman, J. A.
Date of Pub
2005 Spring
Pages
5-30
Volume
26
Issue
3
Other Authors
Parente, S. T., Feldman, J.J., Shah, M.M., Evans, W. N., Finch, M. D.
Abstract
The Medicare+Choice (M+C) programhas faced successive waves of plan with-drawals since 1999. We collected data from1,055 beneficiaries who were involuntarilydisenrolled from a health maintenanceorganization (HMO) that withdrew fromsix large markets in 1999 to investigate howthey were impacted by the forced change incoverage.
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