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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970978603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0-309-18450-9; 1-280-21021-4; 9786610210213; 0-309-59294-1; 0-585-19723-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: x, 65 p
• Collana: The compass series
• Altri autori (Persone): JopeckValerie Tate; LewinMarion Ein
• Disciplina: 368.4/26/00973
• Soggetti: Medicare - Information services; Communication in consumer education - United States; Managed care plans (Medical care) - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.