Who is enrolled in for-profit vs. nonprofit Medicare HMOs?

We compare the characteristics of enrollees in for-profit and nonprofit Medicare health plans using nationwide data from the 1996 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. We find few differences in overall health status, limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs), or history of chronic disease. Ho...

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Published in:Health Affairs 2000-01, Vol.19 (1), p.210-220
Main Authors: Blustein, J, Hoy, E C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of Daily Living
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Beneficiaries
Chronic illnesses
Cross-Sectional Studies
Educational Status
Enrollments
Female
Geriatric Assessment
Government programs
Health
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
Health Care Surveys
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Health Maintenance Organizations - statistics & numerical data
Health Status
HMOs
Humans
Investments
Low income groups
Male
Medicare
Medicare - statistics & numerical data
Middle Aged
Nonprofit organizations
Organizations, Nonprofit - statistics & numerical data
Ownership
Patient Satisfaction
Patients
Personal expenditure
Poverty
Private sector
Profits
Response rates
Socioeconomic factors
Software
Statistical analysis
United States
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Summary:We compare the characteristics of enrollees in for-profit and nonprofit Medicare health plans using nationwide data from the 1996 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. We find few differences in overall health status, limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs), or history of chronic disease. However, older Americans enrolled in for-profit plans are substantially poorer and less educated than those enrolled in nonprofit plans, are more likely to have joined their plan recently, and are more likely to have joined a plan with the expectation of reducing their out-of-pocket health care costs.
ISSN:0278-2715
1544-5208
2694-233X
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.19.1.210