Discusses the diverse capacities and vulnerabilities of different groups of Medicare beneficiaries and how well current information strategies address their needs. Notes that policymakers should be aware of this diversity and the need for transitional and targeted education strategies to reach...

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This study evaluated the Medicaid Managed Care Program, an initiative launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1995 to promote the delivery of high-quality health services for low-income people and those with special health care needs. The overview assesses the perspectives of states,...

Applied research aims to provide answers to "real world" questions. Whether that research is used in the real world to encourage innovation and change, however, has typically not been a major research focus. The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Integrated Delivery Systems...

The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 created a temporary prescription drug discount card for most Medicare beneficiaries and a transitional assistance subsidy program to aid low-income beneficiaries in paying for pharmaceuticals until the voluntary...