5029.0: Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Innovations in Long Term Care Financing

Learning Objectives: 1) To understand issues related to financing of long term care. 2) To become knowledgable about innovative financing programs for long term care, including PPS and RUGs. 3) To understand problems and successes in managed care and long term care insurance programs
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Presider(s):Dennis L. Kodner, PhD
8:30 AMA comparison of index- and category-based approaches to case -mix for the Medicare skilled nursing facility prospective payment system
Chapin White, MPP, Steven D. Pizer, PhD, Alan J. White, PhD
8:45 AMMedicare's Prospective Payment System: How Will the Dually Eligible Fare?
Sarah M. Donelson, MA, Maryam Navaie-Waliser, Dr.P.H, Penny H. Feldman, PhD
9:00 AMRefining resource utilization groups for a national skilled nursing facility system
Alan J. White, PhD, Brant E. Fries, PhD, Steven D. Pizer, PhD, Vincent Mor, PhD, Moore Terry, RN, Lapane Kate, PhD
9:15 AMWho is benefiting: Successes from the Partnership for Long-Term Care
Mark R. Meiners, PhD, Peter Shaun Meyer, MA
9:30 AMImpacts of managed care and competitive reimbursements on outcomes for the seriously ill elderly
Diane M. Dewar, PhD, James Lambrinos, PhD
The following abstracts have been withdrawn by the authors:
Impact of the Long-term Care Insurance Program on Municipal Health Insurance Expenditures
Takaaki Kondo
Sponsor:Gerontological Health
Cosponsors:Health Administration

The 128th Annual Meeting of APHA