Medicare Advantage (Medicare+Choice) Publications
Fast Facts
These short documents provide an overview of an issue, at a glance.
Fast Facts #8—"Shifting Medicare Choices, 1999-2003"
Fast Facts #7—"Choice Continues to Erode in 2002"
Fast Facts #6—"Raising Payment Rates: Initial Effects of BIPA 2000"
Fast Facts #5—"How Salient Is Choice to Medicare Beneficiaries?"
Click here to view the full report entitled "Medicare Beneficiaries and Health Plan Choice, 2000"
Fast Facts #4—"Trends Reflect Fewer Choices"
Fast Facts #3—"Forced Exit: Beneficiaries in Plans Terminating in 2000"
Fast Facts #2—"Choice Varies Widely for Beneficiaries"
Fast Facts #1—"Is There More Or Less Choice?"
Community Profiles
This report, "Making Medicare+Choice Real: Understanding and Meeting the Information Needs of Beneficiaries at the Local Level," provided the basis for this series on information needs of beneficiaries at the local level.
Albuquerque
Baltimore
Orange County
Detroit
Orlando
New Orleans
Operational Insights
These documents look at program operations issues.
"Impact of Market Volatility on Medicare Beneficiaries"
"Medicare's Less Visible Population: Disabled Beneficiaries Under Age 65"
"The Structure of Supplemental Insurance for Medicare Beneficiaries"
"Medicare's Private Fee-for-Service Plan: Sterling's Structure, Opportunities, and Risks"
"Informed Health Plan Choice for Vulnerable Subgroups of Medicare Beneficiaries"
"Recent Research Findings on Medicare+Choice"
"Medicare+Choice: Views from the Field"
"Medicare+Choice Withdrawals: Experiences in Major Metropolitan Areas"
"Helping Eligible Medicare Beneficiaries Access Medicaid: Lessons from SCHIP"
"Markets Stagnate: Views from the Field, 2003"
"The Medigap Market: Product and Pricing Trends, 1999-2001"
"Medicare's Experience with PPOs and Private Fee-for-Service Plans"
"MMA Attempts to Breathe Life into Troubled Markets, 2004"
Other Publications
"Medicare Advantage in 2008"
"The Medicare Preferred Provider Organization Demonstration: Overview of Design, Characteristics, and Outstanding Issues of Concern"
"How Do M+C Plans Manage Pharmacy Benefits? Implications for Medicare"
"Medicare+Choice in California: Lessons and Insights"
"The Role of National Firms in Medicare+Choice"
"Medicare+Choice Withdrawals: Understanding Key Factors"
"Medicare Advantage 2004 Payment Increases Resulting from the Medicare Modernization Act"
"Monitoring Medicare+Choice: What Have We Learned? Findings and Operational Lessons for Medicare Advantage" (final synthesis report)
Since 1997, Mathematica has been analyzing changes in health plan benefits and premiums for the Commonwealth Fund. Click here for reports from this study.
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