Developing an Information Infrastructure for the Medicare+choice Program: Summary of a Workshop

By Valerie Tate Jopeck and Institute of Medicine

On March 4 and 5, 1998, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Choice and Managed Care held a 2-day workshop entitled Developing the Information Infrastructure for Medicare Beneficiaries. This workshop was a follow-up to the IOM report entitled Improving the Medicare Market: Adding Choice and Protections. The workshop focused on the Medicare provisions in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which mandate that the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) develop a "nationally coordinated education and publicity campaign" in 1998 and move Medicare beneficiaries to an open-season enrollment process by the year 2002.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309063884
• ISBN13: 9780309063883
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 76 Pages