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Tag: Enrollment

Removing the Medicare Advantage Program’s Key Disadvantages & Guidance From the Health Policy Cows

The health policy cows are back for April’s report, which presents data and opinions regarding the need to pilot-test implementing managed care in the Medicare arena in a similar manner as typically occurs in Medicaid -- mandatory enrollment of beneficiaries…

Apr. 8, 2016 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Enrollment, Medicaid, Medicare, Policy

Medicaid Expansion – Enrollment Stream From January 2014 Forward

This October edition of the Five Slide Series quantifies the monthly influx of the Medicaid expansion population through March of 2015. Expansion enrollment increased throughout the 15 month period in 14 of the 15 states reviewed.

Oct. 1, 2015 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Enrollment, Expansion, Medicaid

Modernizing Medicare through Piloting Mandatory Enrollment in Care Coordination Programs

This edition of our Five Slide Series is Medicare-focused, policy-oriented, and qualitative and opinionated in nature. We report on the achievements the Medicaid program has made in the mandatory enrollment MCO model, and convey our thoughts on testing a similar…

Dec. 1, 2014 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Enrollment, Medicaid, Medicare, Policy

Medicaid Demographic Mix

This edition of our Five Slide Series focuses quantitatively on Medicaid’s “footprint” in terms of the proportion of the country’s population served by the program by age, gender, and race. Our finding agree with the national consensus; Medicaid plays a…

Nov. 1, 2014 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Enrollment, Medicaid

Analyses of NCQA Quality Ratings Among Medicaid Health Plans

This report assesses Medicaid MCO quality scores as published annually by NCQA. One of the report’s key findings is that there does not appear to be any relationship between Medicaid MCOs’ enrollment levels and their quality scores. Another is that…

Mar. 24, 2014 Download Full Report

KEYWORDS:Enrollment, Quality

Dual Eligibles – Demographics

This edition of our 5-slide series portrays dual eligible demographics, showing the number of duals in each state broken out between full duals and partial duals. We also show the percentage mix of duals in each state by gender and…

Sep. 19, 2013 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Enrollment, Medicaid, Medicare

Foster Care – Demographics and Costs

This edition provides demographic and cost information in children in foster care state by state along with nationwide totals. On average during 2010, 885,000 foster children were covered by Medicaid. Average Medicaid costs per foster child were $6,476 in 2010,…

Aug. 18, 2013 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Enrollment, Medicaid

Medicare Advantage – Demographics

This edition summarizes Medicare Advantage (and overall Medicare) demographic information. The report also quantifies enrollment and penetration dynamics between urban and rural counties. Statistics are provided on the distribution of the Medicare beneficiary population and the Medicare Advantage enrollee population…

Jul. 17, 2013 Download 5 slide

KEYWORDS:Enrollment, Medicare