A Clinton MacKinney, Timothy D McBride, Michael D Shambaugh-Miller, Keith J Mueller
{"title":"Medicare physician payment: practice expense.","authors":"A Clinton MacKinney, Timothy D McBride, Michael D Shambaugh-Miller, Keith J Mueller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38994,"journal":{"name":"Rural policy brief","volume":"8 9 (PB2003-9)","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24144445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Timothy McBride, Keith Mueller, Courtney Andrews, Liyan Xu, Roslyn Fraser
{"title":"Enrollment in FEHBP plans in rural America: what are the implications for Medicare reform?","authors":"Timothy McBride, Keith Mueller, Courtney Andrews, Liyan Xu, Roslyn Fraser","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In places where the competing health plans are unlikely to ever emerge, any policy predicated on assumptions that competing plans will deliver health insurance benefits needs to have a \"fallback\" option that is guaranteed to work.</p>","PeriodicalId":38994,"journal":{"name":"Rural policy brief","volume":"8 8(PB2003-8)","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24043484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Patrick Hart, Wanquing Zhang, Jane L Meza, Keith J Mueller
{"title":"Rural hospital HIPAA readiness and resource needs.","authors":"J Patrick Hart, Wanquing Zhang, Jane L Meza, Keith J Mueller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Principal finding: </strong>rural hospitals with fewer than 50 beds were most in need of assistance and resources to prepare for HIPAA indicating that the Small Hospital Improvement Program chose well in making HIPAA readiness one of three purposes for grants to those hospitals.</p>","PeriodicalId":38994,"journal":{"name":"Rural policy brief","volume":"2003 6(PB2003-6)","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24043483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Timothy McBride, Courtney Andrews, Keith Mueller, Michael Shambaugh-Miller
{"title":"An analysis of availability of Medicare+Choice, commercial HMO, and FEHBP plans in rural areas: implications for Medicare reform.","authors":"Timothy McBride, Courtney Andrews, Keith Mueller, Michael Shambaugh-Miller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This Policy Brief examines the viability of introducing private competition into the Medicare program by studying the availability of Medicare+Choice (M+C), commercial HMO, and Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) plans in rural (nonmetropolitan) counties. The Brief also presents evidence regarding the variables that influence plan availability and impact plan choice across counties in the U.S. The findings in this Brief will be useful to policymakers considering using a competitive model to design a Medicare prescription drug benefit or to redesign the entire Medicare program. As changes in the Medicare program are considered, the information in this Brief will provide background regarding rural participation in earlier Medicare program changes and in other programs said to be models for change.</p>","PeriodicalId":38994,"journal":{"name":"Rural policy brief","volume":"8 5 (PB2003-5)","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22358128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael D Shambaugh-Miller, Julie A Stoner, Louis G Pol, Keith J Mueller
{"title":"Health services at risk in \"vulnerable\" rural places.","authors":"Michael D Shambaugh-Miller, Julie A Stoner, Louis G Pol, Keith J Mueller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38994,"journal":{"name":"Rural policy brief","volume":"7 PB2002-5","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22120579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Timothy D McBride, Courtney Andrews, Alexei Makarkin, Keith J Mueller
{"title":"An update on Medicare+Choice: rural Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare+Choice plans through September 2001.","authors":"Timothy D McBride, Courtney Andrews, Alexei Makarkin, Keith J Mueller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38994,"journal":{"name":"Rural policy brief","volume":"7 4(PB2002-4)","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22007302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}