Improving the Medicare Market: Adding Choice and Protections - Hardcover

Institute Of Medicine; Committee On Choice And Managed Care: Assuring Public Accountability And Information For Informed Purchasing By And On Behalf Of Medicare Beneficiaries

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0309055350 ISBN 13: 9780309055352

Publisher: National Academies Press, 1996

Synopsis

Medicare beneficiaries are rapidly moving into managed care, as attempts to restrain the growth of this costly entitlement program progress.

However, advocates for patients question whether the necessary information and structures are in place to enable Medicare consumers to select wisely among private-sector managed care options. Improving the Medicare Market examines how to give Medicare beneficiaries the same choice of health plan options enjoyed in the private sector—yet protect them as consumers and patients.

This book recommends approaches to ensuring accountability and informed purchasing for Medicare beneficiaries in an environment of broader choice and managed care—how the government should evaluate and approve plans, what role the traditional Medicare program should play, how to help to elderly understand their options, and many other practical matters.

The committee discusses the information requirements of Medicare beneficiaries and explores in detail how best to respond to their special needs. And it examines the procedures that should be developed to provide the necessary protections for the elderly in a managed care system.

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Improving the Medicare Market examines how to give Medicare beneficiaries the same choice of health plan options enjoyed in the private sector - yet protect them as consumers and patients. This book recommends approaches to ensuring accountability and informed purchasing for Medicare beneficiaries in an environment of broader choice and managed care. It examines how the government should evaluate and approve plans, what role the traditional Medicare program should play, how to help the elderly understand and fairly compare their options, and how to develop the necessary guidelines regarding enrollment, marketing, and grievance procedures.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309055350
• ISBN 13: 9780309055352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Lewin Marion Ein, Jones Stanley B.