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Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments

Contents Introduction Overview of DSH Funding Policies What Is a Safety Net Hospital? How Should Financial Vulnerability Be Defined? Framework for Analyzing DSH Allocation Policies Hospital Data Set and

Study of Medicare Home Health Practice Variations: Final Report

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The Effects of Congressional Proposals on Prescription Drug Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries

Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Provides discussion and estimates of several Congressional proposals on prescription drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries.

Medication Use by Medicare Beneficiaries Living in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities

This report compares the medication use of Medicare beneficiaries living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Descriptions of Medicare use include mean number of drug mentions per month of stay (scheduled and PRN drugs), and prevalence and duration of therapy by major drug classes.

Effects of Congressional Proposals on Prescription Drug Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries

Provides discussion and estimates of several Congressional proposals on prescription drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries.

The Impact of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Benefits on Selected Medicare Services

The purpose of this analysis is to gain a better understanding of how having a private LTC insurance policy interacts with and affects the use of Medicare financed home health, skilled nursing and inpatient services. The authors used Medicare claims data and linked it to a sample of 578 community-based disabled elders receiving benefits under their LTC insurance policies.

The Impact of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Benefits on Selected Medicare Services - Executive Summary

Jessica Miller, M.S., Boryana Dimitrova, M.A. and Marc Cohen, Ph.D. LifePlans, Inc. This report was prepared under contract #BPA-OS-01-0267C between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and LifePlans, Inc.

The Graying of Medicare's Disabled Population: Implication for a Medicare Drug Benefit

This report is intended to provide policymakers with critical information on prescription coverage, use and cost for both younger and older disabled Medicare beneficiaries using data from the 1995-1998 Medicare Current Beneficiary Surveys. [27 PDF pages]

Constrained Innovation in Managing Care for High-Risk Seniors in Medicare + Choice Risk Plans

Craig Thornton, Sheldon Retchin, Kenneth D. Smith, Peter D. Fox, William Black and Rita Stapulonis Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.