Medicare+Choice : Using Competitive Bidding to Determine Payments.

Examines proposals to provide for competitive bidding in the Medicare+Choice program, which allows Medicare recipients to participate in a variety of private managed health care plans. Reviews factors that influencing bids, and assesses policy issues for Congress.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2002.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Competition. Public contracts. Managed care plans (Medical care) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Description
Summary:	Examines proposals to provide for competitive bidding in the Medicare+Choice program, which allows Medicare recipients to participate in a variety of private managed health care plans. Reviews factors that influencing bids, and assesses policy issues for Congress.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.