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Medicare: Fewer and Lower Cost Beneficiaries With Chronic Conditions Enroll in HMOs

HEHS-97-160 Published: Aug 18, 1997. Publicly Released: Sep 15, 1997.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined a mature managed care market to determine: (1) the extent to which Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions enroll in health maintenance organizations (HMO); (2) whether beneficiaries with chronic conditions who enroll in HMOs are as costly as those remaining in fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare; and (3) whether beneficiaries with chronic conditions rapidly disenroll from HMOs to FFS at rates different from other newly enrolled beneficiaries.

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