Improving the Medicare Market: Adding Choice and Protections

by National Research Council

Medicare beneficiaries are rapidly moving into managed care, as attempts to restrain the growth of this costly entitlement program progress.

However, advocates for patients question whether the necessary information and structures are in place to enable Medicare consumers to select wisely among private-sector managed care options. Improving the Medicare Market examines how to give Medicare beneficiaries the same choice of health plan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309055350
• ISBN13: 9780309055352
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"