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Medicare

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Prescription Drug Coverage, Spending, Utilization, and Prices

Prescription drugs play an ever-increasing role in modern medicine. New medications are improving health outcomes and quality of life, replacing surgery and other invasive treatments, and quickening recovery for patients who receive these treatments. As important as prescription drugs are, not everyone has access to them.

Medicare's Hospice Benefit: Use and Expenditures, 1996 Cohort

This report presents information on Medicare's hospice benefit — who is using it, how it is being used, what costs are associated with its use, what costs precede hospice enrollment and how these vary by type of enrollee.

Medicare Home Health Services 1989-1994: Patterns of Benefit Use Among Chronically Disabled Elders

Presentation given at the Gerontological Society of America presentation, November 1998. [26 PDF pages]

Feasibility of Matching Medicare and Medicaid Data for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries in Oregon

This report presents results of efforts to match Medicare and Medicaid data for 1996. It describes the data sets and methods used in the study; presents the results for physician (medical), outpatient, and inpatient claims; and briefly concludes the analysis. [33 PDF pages]

Last Thoughts: Beliefs Shape Expectations

This article is excerpted from the speech “Lifelong Wellness and Disability” (November 1998). It discusses how those with a disability could strive for good health. (Window on Wellness, Spring 1999, page 19). [6 PDF pages]

Medicare's Post-Acute Care Benefits: Background, Trends, and Issues to Be Faced

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Evaluation of the District of Columbia's Demonstration Program, "Managed Care System for Disabled and Special Needs Children": Year One Report

Robert Coulam, Carol Irvin, Michele Teitelbaum, Laurine Thomas and Tanisha Carino Abt Associates Inc. July 28, 1998 This report was prepared under contract #500-96-0003 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and Abt Associates Inc.

State Regulatory Experience with Provider-Sponsored Organizations

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).

Public Financing of Long-Term Care: Federal and State Roles

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Financing of Long-Term Care: Federal and State Roles Brian O. Burwell and William H. Crown SysteMetrics September 1994 PDF Version (43 PDF pages)