Medicare+Choice: Payment and Service Areas

FINAL REPORT

By:
Katie Merrell
Senior Analyst
Center for Health Administration Studies
University of Chicago

May 2000

Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• INTRODUCTION
  
  
• MEASURES AND DATA SOURCES
  
  
• RESULTS
  
  
• REFERENCES

  TABLES

  1. Key Measures and Their Source
  2. County-level Mean Medicare Beneficiaries and Managed Care Enrollees, by Change in Risk Plans Available 9/98-4/99
  3. County-Level Mean Number of Risk Plans and Payment Rates by Change in Risk Plans Available 9/98-4/99
  4. County-Level Mean Unemployment, Wage Index, and Demographic Index by Change in Risk Plans Available 9/98-4/99
  5. Characteristics of Plans that Participated in Medicare+Choice in 1998 and Those that Dropped Out in 1999
  6. Regression Estimates - 1998 Plan Participation and 1999 Dropouts
  7. Characteristics of Counties with Medicare+Plans in 1998 and that Lost Plans in 1999
  8. Regression Estimates - Presence of M+C Plan in County in 1998 and Loss of Plan in 1999
  9. Characteristics of Plan-County Pairs, for All, 1998 Participants, and 1999 Dropouts
  10. Regression Estimates - Plan-County 1998 Inclusion in M+C and 1999 Drop Outs
  11. Medicare+Choice Payment Rates and Enrollment by MSA

  Figure

  1. Universe of Medicare+Choice Plans, 1998, HCFA(now known as CMS) v. Interstudy

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