Posted on Monday, November 03 2003 - 02:33 PM - Professors
The U.S. Newswire reports: Today, an independent, expert panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) issued its final report on the role of private health plans in Medicare. Ann Flood, Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Director, Policy Studies, Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences served on the panel.
The bipartisan panel, which was convened by NASI to inform the ongoing discussion about the appropriate role of private insurance and market forces in Medicare, compared the performance of private health plans to original fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare.
Overall, the panel concluded that private health plans have made a positive contribution to the program, although they have fallen short of meeting all the expectations set for them. The panel offered thirteen recommendations to strengthen both fee-for-service and private health plans in Medicare.
Read more about the news article here (http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=116-11032003)
Visit Ann Flood's homepage (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~socy/faculty/flood.html)