Chartpack Highlights Supplemental Drug Coverage Used By Medicare Beneficiaries; New Web Site Focuses On Medical Education

Main Category: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP
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Article Date: 06 Aug 2008 - 12:00 PST

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"Examining Sources of Coverage Among Medicare Beneficiaries: Supplemental Insurance, Medicare Advantage, and Prescription Drug Coverage -- Findings From the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey," Kaiser Family Foundation: The chartpack provides new information on the sources of supplemental and prescription drug coverage among Medicare beneficiaries in 2006. The chartpack also provides the first detailed look at the characteristics of beneficiaries, including those with disabilities who are younger than age 65, with various sources of drug coverage in the first year of the Medicare drug benefit. The chartpack is based on analysis of CMS' Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey 2006 Access to Care file (Kaiser Family Foundation release, 8/4).

New Web site, Medical Education Futures Study: The Web site -- launched by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services with support from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation -- aims to highlight public awareness of the social mission of medical education. MEFS focuses on three issues related to medical education: full participation of underrepresented minorities in medical education; equal distribution of medical education and practitioners; and a strong base of primary care knowledge, values and role models in medical education. The Web site includes two recently released policy briefs that discuss disparities in access to care among racial and ethnic minorities, and recent trends that reflect young physicians' movement away from primary care practices (Medical Education Futures Study release, 8/4).

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