Developing the information infrastructure for medicare beneficiaries : summary of a workshop / Committee on Choice and Managed Care: Furthering the Knowledge Base to Ensure Public Accountability and Information for Informed Purchasing by and on Behalf of Medicare Beneficiaries, Office of Health Policy Programs and Fellowships, Institute of Medicine ; Valerie Tate Jopeck and Marion Ein Lewin, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jopeck, Valerie Tate.

Lewin, Marion Ein.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Choice and Managed Care.

Series:

Compass series (Washington, D.C.)

The compass series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicare+Choice Program (U.S.).

United States. Health Care Financing Administration--Rules and practice.

United States.

Medicare--Information services.

Medicare.

Communication in consumer education--United States.

Communication in consumer education.

Managed care plans (Medical care)--United States.

Managed care plans (Medical care).

Physical Description:

x, 65 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Developing an information infrastructure for the Medicare+Choice Program

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On March 4 and 5, 1998, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Choice and Managed Care held a 2-day workshop entitled Developing the Information Infrastructure for Medicare Beneficiaries. This workshop was a follow-up to the IOM report entitled Improving the Medicare Market: Adding Choice and Protections. The workshop focused on the Medicare provisions in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which mandate that the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) develop a "nationally coordinated education and publicity campaign" in 1998 and move Medicare beneficiaries to an open-season enrollment process by the year 2002.

Contents:

Introduction

HCFA's plan of action

HCFA as a successful consumer service agency

How to reach beneficiaries: lessons from private industry

Role of third parties in the information infrastructure

Best practices and models for an open-season enrollment process

Special needs populations: helping those most in need of assistance

Implementation issues

Letter report to the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration on developing an information infrastructure for the Medicare+Choice Program.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-309-18450-9

1-280-21021-4

9786610210213

0-309-59294-1

0-585-19723-7

OCLC:

923263674