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.
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Advanced SearchAssessment 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
Options for Defining Medicare Advantage Regions: An Assessment of Trade-offs
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was charged with setting regional market areas for the implementation of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA).
Changes in Medicare Home Health Agency Supply: 1996-1999
This paper expands upon previous research addressing the question of how supply of Medicare Home Health Agencies (HHAs) changed after implementation of the interim payment system (IPS) in two important ways.