This Policy Brief helps fill an important gap in our understanding of medication patterns in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) by comparing use and spending for prescription and over-the-counter drugs during skilled nursing facility (SNF) stays and related non-qualifying long-term care facility episodes.
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Advanced SearchA National Comparison of Prescription Drug Expenditures by Medicare Beneficiaries Living in the Community and Long-Term Care Facility Settings
This Policy Brief provides a snapshot of prescription drug use and spending in 2001, the latest year for which complete community and long-term care facility drug data are available.
Analysis of the Characteristics of Medicare Advantage Plan Participation: Final Report
Contents
Project Purpose
Methods
Findings Descriptive Analysis of Trends
Findings Insight from Firm Discussions
Benefits, Marketing, and Product Positioning
Conclusions
Childless Elderly Beneficiaries' Use and Costs of Medicare Services: Final Report
This report focuses on findings for the cost analyses that use the 1994 National Long-Term Care Survey as a baseline and 1995-1998 costs as outcomes. Additional findings, using other years, or usage rather than cost outcomes, were generally consistent with these basic findings. Only for 1995 did the authors find that total Medicare costs were lower for parents than for childless individuals.
Assessment of Pay-for-Performance Options for Medicare Physician Services: Final Report
Report authors: Melony E.S.Sorbero, Cheryl L. Damberg, Rebecca Shaw, Stephanie Telekie, Susan Lovejoy, Alison Dechristofaro, Jake Dembosky, Cynthia Shuster
Developing A Risk Adjustment Methodology for Medicare Drug Plans
This paper describes the work NORC did to supplement the Federal Employee Health Benefits data (FEHBP) used to develop drug risk adjustment factors for over 65 individuals with a full drug supplement to Medicare. This data needed to be supplemented because the FEHBP data did not adequately represent, low-income, disabled, or non east Coast populations.
The Effect of Cash and Counseling on Medicaid and Medicare Costs: Findings for Adults in Three States
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Effect of Cash and Counseling on Medicaid and Medicare Costs: Findings for Adults in Three States Executive Summary
ASPE Issue Brief
Social Security and Medicare from a Trust Fund and Budget Perspective
According to the annual reports of the Social Security and Medicare trustees, the financial outlook for the two programs is not favorable. Under the central forecasts reported for the past 16 years under both Republican and Democratic Administrations, both programs face significant long-range