Financial vulnerability among Medicare managed care enrollees

Health Care Financing Review

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 81-92

  Robins, Cynthia S ^a,c   Heller, Amy ^b   Myers, Mary Anne ^a  

^a WESTAT   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGED CARE; MEDICARE; MINORITY GROUP; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19944414962     PISSN: 01958631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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