| Description |
1 online resource (1 online report (xxxiv, 151 pages)) : illustrations |
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text file PDF |
| Note |
"Prepared for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the DoD Tricare Management Activity (TMA)." |
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"RAND Health." |
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"MR-1580-CMS"--Page 4 of cover. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 127). |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
United States. Department of Defense -- Officials and employees, Retired -- Medical care -- Finance.
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United States. Department of Defense. |
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Medical care. |
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Finance. |
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Government employees' health insurance -- United States -- Finance.
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Government employees' health insurance. |
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United States. |
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Medicare.
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Medicare. |
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Retired military personnel -- Medical care -- United States -- Finance.
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Retired military personnel -- Medical care. |
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Retired military personnel. |
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Health maintenance organizations.
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Health maintenance organizations. |
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Managed care plans (Medical care) -- United States -- Finance.
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Managed care plans (Medical care) |
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical care.
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Armed Forces. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Farley, Donna.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evaluation of the Medicare-DoD subvention demonstration. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2003 0833033174 (DLC) 2002036969 (OCoLC)51053445 |
| ISBN |
9780833059956 (electronic book) |
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0833059955 (electronic book) |
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1598751085 |
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9781598751086 |
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0833033174 |
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9780833033178 |
| Report No. |
RAND/MR-1580-CMS |
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