Site Visit
| Date: | NOVEMBER 12–14, 2002 |
| Title: | The Medicare and Medicaid Intersection: Caring for Arizona's Seniors |
| Authors: | Nora Super, Lisa Sprague & Judith D. Moore |
| Summary: | This site visit to Phoenix examined the interplay between Medicare and Medicaid and how payment streams and regulatory requirements affect the delivery of health and long-term care services. The visit explored trends related to Medicare+Choice plan participation, physician acceptance of Medicare patients, and care management for individuals with chronic illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s disease. It also considered Arizona’s capitated Medicaid long-term care program, which recently implemented competitive bidding among plans in Maricopa County. |
| Related Materials: |
For details on participants' impressions, see the Site Visit Report.
Other related Forum programming includes "National Spending for Long-Term Services and Supports" (The Basics, March 15, 2011); Forum sessions on Medicaid managed long-term care (April 25, 2008), consumer direction and Money Follows the Person (November 7, 2008), and informal caregiving (September 21, 2007); and reports from the site visits to Wisconsin (Madison and vicinity in August 2007, and Milwaukee in August 2008) and Fairfax, Virginia (March 2007). |
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