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Title Evaluation of the medicare-dod subvention demonstration : final report / Donna O. Farley [and others]
Published Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (1 online report (xxxiv, 151 pages)) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Evaluation methods and data -- Senior prime implementation and market entry -- The beneficiary's perspective: enrollment demand and perceptions of senior prime -- Early effects of senior prime on costs and service use -- Implications for broader use of an MTF-based option -- Appendix A: RAND process evaluation questions for initial site visits -- Appendix B: Template for site visit agenda -- Appendix C: RAND process evaluation questions for mid-demonstration review -- Appendix D: FY96-FY98 RAND data documentation
Summary The Medicare-Department of Defense (DoD) Subvention Demonstration tested Senior Prime as a managed care approach for enhancing access to affordable health care for Medicare-eligible DoD beneficiaries. While Senior Prime achieved solid beneficiary participation and satisfaction, it also raised a difficult set of challenges involved in applying managed care to the DoD health care system. These challenges included financial issues such as establishing equitable capitation rates and an appropriate level-of-effort baseline, as well as management issues such as effective care management and administrative processes for health plan sites. The basic structures of TRICARE and the DoD health system, including separate management jurisdictions and hierarchical budgeting methods, contribute to the challenges by creating incentives that discourage delivery of cost-effective care. Military treatment facilities need to be motivated not only to provide excellent care but also to manage appropriateness of care and related costs. Although DoD has decided to discontinue the Senior Prime model, many of the lessons learned from this demonstration are applicable to any managed care program that DoD may contemplate in the future
Notes "Prepared for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the DoD Tricare Management Activity (TMA)."
"RAND Health."
"MR-1580-CMS"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 127)
Notes Print version record
Subject United States. Department of Defense -- Officials and employees, Retired -- Medical care -- Finance
SUBJECT United States. Department of Defense. fast (OCoLC)fst01852447
Subject Government employees' health insurance -- United States -- Finance
Medicare.
Retired military personnel -- Medical care -- United States -- Finance
Health maintenance organizations.
Managed care plans (Medical care) -- United States -- Finance
Medicare
Health Maintenance Organizations
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
Armed Forces -- Medical care.
Government employees' health insurance -- Finance.
Health maintenance organizations.
Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Finance.
Medicare.
SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical care. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139845
Subject United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Farley, Donna O
ISBN 9780833059956
0833059955