Developing the Information Infrastructure for Medicare Beneficiaries : Summary of a Workshop.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Developing the Information Infrastructure for Medicare Beneficiaries
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- POLICY CONTEXT FOR THE WORKSHOP
- 2 HCFA's Plan of Action
- WHAT HCFA WILL DO IN 1998
- BUILDING A KNOWLEDGE BASE WITH BETTER INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
- RELYING ON THE COMMUNITY FOR ASSISTANCE
- 3 HCFA as a Successful Consumer Service Agency
- THE LESSONS OF MARKET EXPERIENCE
- CONSUMER ASSISTANCE ROLES
- Role of HCFA
- Roles of Other Participants
- Media
- Physicians
- Employers
- Insurance Commissioners and Health DepartmentsAccreditation Organizations
- Patient Advocacy and Counseling Agencies
- Disease- and Disability-Oriented Groups
- Other Special Needs Populations
- IMPLEMENTATION
- 4 How to Reach Beneficiaries: Lessons from Private Industry
- HOW TO TARGET THE MEDICARE POPULATION
- Medicare Has a Heterogeneous Population
- Education and Marketing Should Be Done Together
- PARTNERING WITH EXPERT OUTSIDE GROUPS AND RESOURCES TO GET THE JOB DONE
- Relying on Traditional Medicare
- Cautions Concerning Private Plan Marketing
- 5 Role of Third Parties in the Information InfrastructureHOW CONSUMERS USE INFORMATION FOR DECISION MAKING
- What Affects the Level of Knowledge?
- Supporting the Decision-Making Process
- A Proposed Important First Step
- THE ROLE OF THE HICAP
- How to Best Provide Beneficiaries with This Information
- Liability Issues
- THE ROLE OF PROVIDERS: AN ISSUE OF TRUST
- THE FUTURE INFORMATION DISSEMINATION INFRASTRUCTURE
- Conditioning the Market
- 6 Best Practices and Models for an Open-Season Enrollment Process
- STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA TEACHERS' AND STATE EMPLOYEES' COMPREHENSIVE MAJOR MEDICAL PLANLessons Learned
- FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' HEALTH BENEFITS PROGRAM
- Lessons Learned
- THE EFFECTIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY: THE GENERAL ELECTRIC ANSWER CENTER AS A CASE STUDY
- Customer Requirements
- Call Center Requirements
- People
- Technology
- Inquiry Management Process
- 7 Special Needs Populations: Helping Those Most in Need of Assistance
- CHRONIC ILLNESS IN MANAGED CARE
- CHALLENGES FOR THE IMMIGRANT POPULATION
- Reaching the Immigrant Population
- Alternative Methods of Reaching the Immigrant PopulationsHOW TO HELP COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS
- Decision Making by Cognitively Impaired Individuals
- 8 Implementation Issues
- ACCOUNTABILITY
- IMPLEMENTATION LESSONS FROM TENNCARE
- USE OF AN ADVISORY COUNCIL
- POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- References
- A Workshop Agenda
- B Workshop Participants
- COMMITTEE MEMBERS
- SPEAKERS
- REGISTERED GUESTS
- IOM STAFF