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Medicare+Choice: Plan Withdrawals Indicate Difficulty of Providing Choice While Achieving Savings

HEHS-00-183 Published: Sep 07, 2000. Publicly Released: Sep 07, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed health care plans' withdrawal from the Medicare Choice program, focusing on the: (1) geographic distribution and the distribution among plans of enrollees affected by the recent plan withdrawals; (2) factors associated with plans that terminated or reduced their participation in the program; and (3) likely role of payment rates in affecting plans' decisions.

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