Briefly Noted
Briefly Noted
• Despite the fact that a number of Medicare managed care withdrew from the Medicare risk market last year and a number of plans are expected to withdraw from certain markets this year, the number of plans serving Medicare beneficiaries and enrollment in Medicare+Choice plans continued to grow in the first half of 1999. According to an analysis of Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA; Baltimore) data by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN; Wall, NJ), the number of Medicare+Choice contracts increased from 383 in January to 402 in June. And the number of enrollees increased from 6.6 million in January to 6.9 million in June. Health plans that are withdrawing from certain markets are citing declining reimbursement as the reason, according to the research. But HIN said it offers a number of resources to assist health plans and providers in the Medicare+Choice market, including Medical Management Under Medicare Risk, which shows healthcare providers how to tackle their toughest senior care challenges, Managed Medicare & Medicaid, which provides a variety of benchmark data to help healthcare organizations predict their level of risk, and The Executive Guide to Medicare Managed Care, which provides healthcare providers with the latest solutions to Medicare managed care challenges. For more information on the Medicare resources, call (888) 446-3530.
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