Journal article
Understanding the Impacts of the Medicare Modernization Act: Concerns of Congressional Staff
The Journal of rural health, Vol.21(3), pp.194-197
06/2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2005.tb00082.x
PMID: 16092291
Abstract
Sweeping changes to the Medicare program embodied in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), including a new prescription drug benefit, changes in payment policies, and reform of the Medicare managed-care program, have major implications for rural health care. The most efficient mechanism for research to affect policy is to provide policy makers with information on issues about which they have voiced concern. The Rural Policy Research Institute's Health Panel conducted 2 focus groups with 16 congressional staff in September 2004 to identify a set of researchable questions concerning the impact of the MMA on rural health care. This paper presents research questions in the following areas that staff identified as having the highest priority: access to health plans and pharmacy services, beneficiary outreach and enrollment, technology capacity, provider payment policy, and demonstration projects.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Understanding the Impacts of the Medicare Modernization Act: Concerns of Congressional Staff
- Creators
- Keith J Mueller - RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, Department of Preventive and Societal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NebrAndrew F Coburn - Institute for Health Policy, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland, MeA. Clinton MacKinney - Stroudwater Associates, Portland, MeTimothy D McBride - Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MoRebecca T Slifkin - North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center & Program on Health Care Economics and Finance, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NCMary K Wakefield - Center for Rural Health, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of rural health, Vol.21(3), pp.194-197
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2005.tb00082.x
- PMID
- 16092291
- ISSN
- 0890-765X
- eISSN
- 1748-0361
- Number of pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2005
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984214822502771
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