This report evaluated Mercy Medical Center North Iowa and Health Quality Partners, two providers in the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration, a rigorous multiyear evaluation sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to determine if care coordination improves quality of...

Presents findings from the third report to Congress on the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration.

This study randomly assigned Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who had chronic illnesses and volunteered to participate in 15 care coordination programs to treatment or control status. Nurses provided patient education (mostly by telephone) to improve adherence and ability to communicate...

This articles examines interim impacts of a disease management demonstration for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries also enrolled in Medicaid (dual eligibles). The study randomly assigned dual eligibles with congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and/or diabetes to treatment or...

Before Medicare Part D, Congress authorized the Medicare disease management demonstration to evaluate whether disease management programs—in conjunction with a comprehensive prescription drug benefit—could improve health outcomes and reduce Medicare expenditures. The demonstration...

The new Medicare Part D benefit, which began on January 1, 2006, expanded Medicare to include prescription drugs, and it required beneficiaries to change how they interact with the program. Past experience with low enrollment in a variety of programs designed to aid low-income Medicare...