The Role of PBMs in Managing Drug Costs: Implications for a Medicare Drug Benefit
Extending a drug benefit to Medicare beneficiaries has been a highly publicized issue in recent months.
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Health News Index – March/April 2000
Poll FindingHealth News Index March/April, 2000 The March/April 2000 edition of the Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, Health News Index includes questions about major health stories covered in the news, including questions about the Supreme Court's ruling on the the Food and Drug Administration's authority to regulate the marketing of tobacco products.
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Variations in State Medicaid Buy-in Practices for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries: A 1999 Update
ReportThis report updates a 1997 Foundation report to assess how states are implementing financial protections for the 16 million Medicare beneficiaries who are low-income.
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Retiree Health Coverage: Recent Trends and Employer Perspectives on Future Benefits
ReportThe report, based on an analysis of Hewitt Associates' client database, presents new trend data on the prevalence of retiree health coverage sponsored by large employers and finds a continued erosion of retiree health benefits.
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Medicare State Profiles: State and Regional Data on Medicare and the Population it Serves
ReportAlthough Medicare is a national program, there are substantial variations across states and regions in terms of beneficiary characteristics, health needs, and utilization of Medicare-covered services. Likewise, there are also considerable differences in Medicare spending and the emergence of Medicare managed care.
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The Faces of Medicare
Fact SheetThe Medicare beneficiary population is often described in homogenous terms, yet those covered by the program vary significantly in terms of their health, income, supplemental insurance status, and medical service use.
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Medicare and Medicaid for the Elderly and Disabled Poor
Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides an overview of the role of Medicare and Medicaid in serving these beneficiaries, describes the health status of dual Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries, and discusses issues of managed care and access to care.This fact sheet is a summary of a longer Background Paper (#2132), which is also available.
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Medicaid Eligibility for the Elderly
ReportThe purpose of this issue paper is to explain Federal Medicaid eligibility policy for the low-income elderly population and discusses Federal and State policy options to improve coverage.
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Medicare and Medicaid for the Elderly and Disabled Poor
Other PostThis fact sheet provides an overview of the role of Medicare and Medicaid in serving these beneficiaries; describes the health status of dual Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries, and discusses issues of managed care and access to care. Available in PDF format.
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Medicare’s Role for Latinos – (Spanish version)
Other PostMedicare's Role for Latinos - (Spanish version) Note: This publication is no longer in circulation. However, a few copies may still exist in the Foundation's internal library that could be xeroxed. Please email order@kff.