Schneider Institutes for Health Policy
Research Project Summary
| Project Title: | The Kaiser Permanente Medicare Demonstrations: Policy Implications of Offering A Dual Benefit Package in a HMO |
| PI: | Leutz W |
| Co-PI: | Perrin N |
| Team Members: | Brody K, Nonnekamp L, Phelps L |
| Start Date: | 10/1/2003 |
| End Date: | 3/31/2005 |
| Funder: | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
| Research Area: | Acute and Chronic Health Care |
| Core Competencies: | Financing, Organizations, Costs & Value, High Risk & Costly Populations |
| Description The grant examines 18 years of Kaiser Permanente Northwest experience in offering Medicare beneficiaries a dual choice of a regular Medicare supplement and a Social HMO. The research focuses on selectivity in enrollment between the two options, and the costs, utilization, and coordination of expanded home-based and community-based long-term care benefits in the Social HMO. | |
