Papers Discuss Consumer-Directed Strategies To Reduce Medicaid Spending; Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plan Toolkit Released

Main Category: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP
Article Date: 18 Jul 2007 - 6:00 PST

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"Medicaid Efforts to Incentivize Healthy Behaviors," Center for Health Care Strategies: The resource paper examines key elements of incentive policies, including which behaviors are rewarded, the amount of the reward and nature of the reward. The paper also discusses development and early implementation of Medicaid incentive programs in Florida and Idaho (Greene, "Medicaid Efforts to Incentivize Healthy Behaviors," July 2007).

"State Approaches to Consumer Direction in Medicaid," Center for Health Care Strategies: The issue brief, developed through a national survey of Medicaid programs, describes how states are using a number of consumer-directed approaches to encourage Medicaid beneficiaries to make more cost effective choices in their health care (Barth/Greene, "State Approaches to Consumer Direction in Medicaid," July 2007).

"Toolkit: Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans," Alliance for Health Reform: The toolkit contains links to resources on general information about Medicare private fee-for-service plans, advantages and incentives of using the plans and the difficulties that beneficiaries have faced with the plans, including enrollment fraud. The toolkit also includes a list of experts and Web sites for further information on the plans (Alliance for Health Reform release, 7/12).

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