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.
Valerie Tate Jopeck and Marion Ein Lewin, Editors, Committee on Choice and Managed Care: Furthering the Knowledge Base to Ensure Public Accountability and Information for Informed Purchasing by and on Behalf of Medicare Beneficiaries, Institute of Medicine
1 Front Matter; 2 1 Introduction; 3 2 HCFA's Plan of Action; 4 3 HCFA as a Successful Consumer Service Agency; 5 4 How to Reach Beneficiaries: Lessons from Private Industry; 6 5 Role of Third Parties in the Information Infrastructure; 7 6 Best Practices and Models for an Open-Season Enrollment Process; 8 7 Special Needs Populations: Helping Those Most in Need of Assistance; 9 8 Implementation Issues; 10 9 Letter Report to the Administration of the Health Care Financing Administration on Developing an Information Infrastructure for the Medicare+Choice Program; 11 References; 12 Appendix A: Workshop Agenda; 13 Appendix B: Workshop Participants
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