April 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
The Medicare home health benefit changed dramatically between 1997 and 2001, leading to significant reductions in the number of people who used the benefit and the amount of services they received.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
The Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health studied Elder Health, a for-profit managed-care provider in Baltimore, Md., that serves individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid (i.e., dually eligible).
March 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
Between 1997 and 2001 Investigators at the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical Center, Hanover, N.H, conducted two research projects that examined how the increasing availability of health care technology and specialist physicians influence the delivery of health care and health outcomes.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
The Oregon Health Policy Institute conducted an evaluation of five demonstration projects designed to implement and evaluate state efforts to remove barriers to employment for disabled people by increasing access to health care.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
The Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center refined and evaluated the Community Resource Connection, an administrative system that identified health care needs among elderly patients and linked them to appropriate services.
January 1, 2002
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Book
Susan Dentzer explores whether service credit banking--as demonstrated in the projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation--was a good idea that was badly timed or implemented, or whether it was simply a flawed idea.
January 1, 2002
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Program Result Report
Sierra Health Services designed and evaluated for replicability a model of care to improve the identification of high-risk members and better integrate case management into the primary care setting.
April 1, 2002
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Program Result Report
The UCLA School of Medicine conducted a study to compare the care received by Medicare patients with diabetes in fee-for-service to that received by patients in managed care health plans.
May 17, 2002
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Program Result Report
In 2000 and 2001, PDF Incorporated (now PDF, LLC), Chevy Chase, Md., prepared a policy paper on improved coordination between the fee-for-service Medicare program and community-based social services.
May 1, 2002
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Program Result Report
The Brandeis University Institute for Health Policy supported a study of the renal disease management program operated by Southern California Kaiser Permanente, a regional, nonprofit HMO.