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Fewer Patients Receive Home Health Care After Medicare Changes Its Method of Payment in 1997

April 1, 2004 | 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.

Elder Health Program in Baltimore Achieves Better Outcomes for Low-Income Elderly Through a Capitated System

January 1, 2003 | 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).

Is More Medical Care Better Medical Care?

March 1, 2003 | 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.

Three-State Study Reveals Unexpected Barriers to Work for the Disabled

August 1, 2003 | 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.

A System for Spotting and Treating High-Risk Elderly Patients

December 1, 2003 | 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.

Service Credit Banking

January 1, 2002 | 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.

Nevada HMO Creates a Model for Managing Chronic Illnesses by Coordinating Care

January 1, 2002 | 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.

Assessing the Quality of Managed Care for Diabetic Patients

April 1, 2002 | 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.

Elderly Need More Than Just Medical Care: Social Services Must Be Coordinated Too

May 17, 2002 | 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.

Disease Management Program Reduces Hospital Days for Chronic Renal Disease Patients

May 1, 2002 | 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.

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