Medicare Managed Care: Growing Enrollment Adds Urgency to Fixing HMO Payment Problem

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Year: 1995
Pages: 28
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0788132164

Description

. Medicare (MED) has not yet harnessed the cost-saving potential of its managed care option. In fact, MED has paid HMOs more for serving MED beneficiaries than it would have spent, had those same beneficiaries received care in the fee-for-service sector. This report addresses current trends in MED beneficiary enrollment in HMOs; flaws in MED’s rate-setting method preventing MED from realizing potential savings from HMOs; strategies to enable MED to realize HMO savings; & the Health Care Financing Admin. efforts to test HMO payment reforms.

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