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More Medicare Projects and Publications

Cost Control and Payment Method Reform

Projects:

Federal Spending on Diabetes: An Opportunity for Change
Examining the Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration

Publications:

"Promising Therapies, Prohibitive Costs: A Qualitative Assessment of the Effects of the Medicare Part D Doughnut Hole on Access to Costly Cancer Medications" (March 2011)
"Yes, We Can Make a Dent in Medicare Costs" (February 2010)
"Best Practices in Public Health Systems Research: Resources and Gaps in Administrative Data to Identify Relevant Population Health Outcomes" (July 2009)
"Using Payment Incentives to Improve Care for the Chronically Ill in Medicare: First Year Implementation of the Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration (MCMP)" (March 2009)

Quality and Access to Care

Projects:

Development, Maintenance, and Support of Hospital Outpatient, Outpatient Imaging
Efficiency, Psychiatric Inpatient, and Cancer Hospitals Quality-of-Care Measures
Performance Monitoring for Voluntary Medicare Health Support Under Fee-for-Service Medicare
Study of Federal Spending Impact on Diabetes
Medicare Quality Measurement Support, Mortality Implementation and Measures Development and Monitoring

Publications:

"Medicare Contractor Provider Satisfaction Survey (MCPSS) Public Report" (September 2010)
"The Performance of US Hospitals as Reflected in Risk-Standardized 30-Day Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Beneficiaries with Pneumonia" (July/August 2010)
"Patterns of Hospital Performance in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure 30-Day Mortality and Readmission" (September 2009)
"Healthy People (HP) 2010 Disparity Elimination Goals: Case Studies of State Efforts" (June 2009)

Coordinated Care and Disease Management

Projects:

Evaluating the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration
PACE: Enhancing Quality of Care for the Elderly
Medical Home Demonstration Design Contract
Evaluation of Aetna’s Care Coordination Program
Evaluation of the Extended Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration
Can Disease Management Control Medicare Costs?
Evaluation of Coordinated Care and Disease Management
Effectiveness of Efforts to Increase Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation Among Medicare’s Extra Help Population Pilot Projects
Evaluation of Care and Disease Management Under Medicare Advantage
Evaluation of Programs of Coordinated Care and Disease Management
Evaluation of the Home Health Independence Demonstration
Evaluation of Three Cash and Counseling Programs

Publications:

"Promising Models of Care Coordination in Medicare: Lessons for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Chronic Illnesses" (October 2009)
"The Promise of Care Coordination: Models that Decrease Hospitalizations and Improve Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries with Chronic Illnesses" (July 2009)
"Lessons from the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration and Other Studies on Coordinating Care for People with Disabilities" (June 2009)
"Using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Small-Scale Disease Management Pilot Programs" (February 2009)
"Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials" (February 2009)
"Assessment of Disparities in Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations of Maryland Medicare Patients" (December 2008)
"Differences in Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions Among Maryland Medicare Beneficiaries, 2006" (December 2008)
"The Role of SNPs in Medicare Managed Care: What Value Can They Add?" (July 2008)

Health Information Technology

Projects:

Using Telemedicine to Deliver Services to the Medically Underserved

Publications:

"Factors Influencing EHR Use in Small Physician Practices: Case Studies in Four States" (June 2009)

Dual Eligible Beneficiaries

Publications:

"Improving Care for Dual Eligibles: Opportunities for Medicare Managed Care Plans" (July 2011)
"Long-Term Care and Dual Eligibles: Overview and Managed Care Opportunities" (June 2011)
"Managed Long Term Care: Current and Emerging Options for Dual Eligibles" (March 2011)
"Medicare and Medicaid Spending on Dual Eligible Beneficiaries" (June 2010)
"Wrapping Around Medicare: The Role of Medicaid" (February 2009)

Prescription Drugs

Publications:

"Final Evaluation Report: Best Practices for Enrolling Low-Income Beneficiaries into the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program" (February 2009)
"Using Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) Data on Rx Drug Use and Costs to Analyze Current Medicaid and Medicare Policy Issues" (December 2008)
"Easing the Part D Transition: An Evaluation of Federal and State Efforts to Ensure Dual Eligibles and Other Low-Income Beneficiaries Maintain Prescription Drug Coverage" (September 2008)
"Medicaid Prescription Drug Use by Dual Eligibles: Issues for Medicare Part D" (August 2008) 

Managed Care and Private Health Plans

Projects:

Evaluation of Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans
Evaluation of PACE as a Permanent Program and a For-Profit Demonstration

Publications:

"Benefits and Cost-Sharing" (February 2010)
"Strategies for Simplifying the Medicare Advantage Market" (July 2009)
"Medicare Advantage (MA) Benefit Design and Beneficiary Choice" (June 2009)
"Medicare Advantage (MA) Within a Strengthened Medicare Program" (June 2009)
"An Illustrative Analysis of Medicare Options Compare: What's There and What's Not?" (April 2009)
"Medicare Advantage Benefit Design: What Does It Provide, What Doesn't It Provide, and Should Standards Apply?" (March 2009)
"A First Look at How Medicare Advantage Benefits and Premiums in Individual Enrollment Plans Are Changing from 2008 to 2009" (March 2009)
"Using Payment Incentives to Improve Care for the Chronically Ill in Medicare: First Year Implementation of the Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration (MCMP)" (2009)
"Looking at Medicare Advantage: What Has Happened Since the Launch? What Will Happen in the Future?" (November 2008)
"Medicare's Private Plans: A Report Card on Medicare Advantage (MA)" (November 2008)