Health plan enrollment and mortality in the medicare program

Health Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 645-659

  Dowd, Bryan ^a   Maciejewski, Matthew L ^b,c   O'Connor, Heidi ^a   Riley, Gerald ^d   Geng, Yisong ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^e ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

HMOs; Medicare; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953766051     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1623     Document Type: Article

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