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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: Cost and Service Use Patterns of Medicare Consumer-directed (CD) Models for Rural America: Implications for Medicare Policy
4130.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Cost and Service Use Patterns of Medicare Consumer-directed (CD) Models for Rural America: Implications for Medicare Policy
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Organizer(s):Gerald Eggert, PhD
Discussant(s):Joan Van Nostrand, DPA
Moderator(s):Gerald M. Eggert, PhD
12:30 PMIntroduction to Symposium
Gerald Eggert, PhD, Brenda R. Wamsley, PhD, Bruce Friedman, PhD, Hongdao Meng, PhD, Joan Van Nostrand, DPA
12:45 PMProgram satisfaction with consumer-directed models: Do rural and urban Medicare populations differ?  [ Recorded presentation ]
Brenda R. Wamsley, PhD, Gerald Eggert, PhD
1:00 PMImpact of a Health Promotion Nurse Intervention on Functional Status and Health Care Expenditures among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries with Hypertension
Hongdao Meng, PhD, Bruce Friedman, PhD, Brenda R. Wamsley, PhD, Gerald Eggert, PhD
1:15 PMMedicare Primary and Consumer-Directed Care Demonstration: Healthcare costs of cognitively intact versus cognitively impaired rural beneficiaries
Bruce Friedman, PhD, Hongdao Meng, PhD, Brenda R. Wamsley, PhD, Gerald Eggert, PhD
1:30 PMMedicare Primary and Consumer-Directed Care Demonstration: Healthcare costs of rural beneficiaries with and without major depression
Bruce Friedman, PhD, Hongdao Meng, PhD, Brenda R. Wamsley, PhD, Gerald Eggert, PhD
1:45 PMMedicare Primary and Consumer-Directed Care Demonstration: Ambulatory care sensitive hospital admissions of rural beneficiaries  [ Recorded presentation ]
Ethan Corona, BA, Bruce Friedman, PhD, Brenda R. Wamsley, PhD, Gerald Eggert, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Gerontological Health
Endorsed by:Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; Medical Care; Public Health Nursing
CE Credits:CME, CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA