Reforming Beneficiary Cost Sharing to Improve Medicare Performance
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Reforming beneficiary cost sharing to improve Medicare performance.
This paper explores options for reforming Medicare cost sharing in an effort to provide better financial protection for those beneficiaries with the greatest health care needs. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), we consider how unified annual deductibles, alternative coinsurance rates, and a limit on out-of-pocket spending w...
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عنوان ژورنال: INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0046-9580,1945-7243
DOI: 10.5034/inquiryjrnl_47.03.215