Understanding the Impacts of the Medicare Modernization Act: Concerns of Congressional Staff

Autor/inn/en	Mueller, Keith J.; Coburn, Andrew F.; MacKinney, A. Clinton; McBride, Timothy D.; Slifkin, Rebecca T.; Wakefield, Mary K.
Titel	Understanding the Impacts of the Medicare Modernization Act: Concerns of Congressional Staff
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Health, 21 (2005) 3, S.194-197 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0890-765X
DOI	10.1111/j.1748-0361.2005.tb00082.x
Schlagwörter	Focus Groups; Policy; Access to Health Care; Pharmacy; Rural Areas; Health Programs; Health Services; Health Needs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politik; Apotheke; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen
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. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10