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- Choice Cuts. Korn, Donald Jay // Financial Planning;Feb2003, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p49
Discusses Medicare plans in the U.S. Information on Medicare health maintenance organizations; Reasons of clients for choosing traditional Medicare plans; Details on the Medigap policy, a Medicare supplement policy. INSET: Medigap Plans: 'A'dequate to 'J'umbo.
- EFFECTS OF HMOs ON FEE-FOR-SERVICE SECTOR EXPENDITURE: THE US MEDICARE EXPERIENCE. Bae, Jay P. // Research in Healthcare Financial Management;2001, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p21
Focuses on a study which examined the effects of health maintenance organizations (HMO) on fee-for-service sector per capita expenditures within the Medicare program in the U.S. Implication of the spillover hypothesis on HMO penetration areas; Examination of changes in the overall healthcare...
- Health care fact. // AHA News;1/23/95, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p2
Presents a graph depicting the number of Medicare enrollees in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in the United States as of June 1994.
- Tune it up or scrap it? Kostreski, Farah // AHA News;2/20/95, Vol. 31 Issue 8, p7
Discusses issues concerning revisions of the Medicare program in the United States. Maintenance costs of the program; Problems concerning the program; Health maintenance organizations as alternative; Development of Medicare preferred provider organization (PPO) program.
- Medicare HMO payment mechanism under fire. Kostreski, Farah // AHA News;5/29/95, Vol. 31 Issue 22, p1
Reports on Medicare-reform options that Congress is mulling to fix the program's health maintenance organization (HMO) payment methodology. Basis of payment scheme; Plan to create blended Medicare HMO payment scheme; Evaluation of possible payment adjustments.
- Medicare HMO payment rates to go up 5.9%. // AHA News;09/16/96, Vol. 32 Issue 37, p5
Presents information regarding the percentage increase of Medicare health maintenance organization payment rates according to the Health Care Financing Administration.
- Bipartisan House, Senate bills push for PSOs. Cassil, Alwyn // AHA News;1/27/97, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p1
Reports on the introduction of bipartisan House and Senate bills to allow health maintenance organizations to contract with Medicare. Goal of community-based care providers; Improvement of overall community health.
- PSOs, HMOs duel over the rules of competition. Cassil, Alwyn // AHA News;03/24/97, Vol. 33 Issue 11, p1
Reports on congressional hearings in the United States that heard arguments for and against provider-sponsored organizations (PSOs) and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Support by physicians and hospitals for PSOs to contract directly with Medicare; Insurers' opposition to federal PSO...
- HMOs' Medicare service to be analyzed. // AHA News;08/11/97, Vol. 33 Issue 31, p5
Focuses on the National Committee for Quality Assurance's receipt of data from 98 percent of health maintenance organizations that contract with Medicare to help collect and analyze that data for the Health Care Financing Authority.
- Compare HMO dropout rates, consumers told. // AHA News;12/08/97, Vol. 33 Issue 47, p3
Reports on the study conducted by Families USA on the range of dropout rates in 1996 for Medicare health maintenance organizations in the United States.
