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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Providing Medicare Information through Employers: What are the Opportunities and Challenges Given the Medicare Modernization Act?
3281.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Providing Medicare Information through Employers: What are the Opportunities and Challenges Given the Medicare Modernization Act?
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Moderator(s):Deborah Peikes, MPA, PhD
2:30 PMSESSION ABSTRACT- Providing Medicare Information through employers: What are the opportunities and challenges given the Medicare Modernization Act?
Fiona D. Smith, MPH, Suzanne Rotwein, PhD
2:45 PMFrom sickness insurance to the Medicare prescription drug bill: Historical perspectives on the role of employers as health insurers and providers of Medicare information to an elderly workforce
Suzanne Rotwein, PhD
3:00 PMPolicy implications of employers as purveyors of Medicare information to the elderly workforce and the impact of the MMA on employers and furture retirees
Suzanne Rotwein, PhD
3:15 PMDeveloping and Providing Effective Medicare Education Materials to Retirees: The Role of Employers
Jennifer Uhrig, PhD, Lauren Harris-Kojetin, PhD
3:30 PMProviding Medicare Information through employers: What are the opportunities and challenges post Medicare Modernization Act? (FSmith presentation)
Fiona D. Smith, MPH, Suzanne Rotwein, PhD, Alyson Burns, MPH, Sally Crelia, MPH, Lauren Blatt
3:45 PMProviding Medicare information through employers: What are the opportunities and challenges post Medicare Modernization Act? (Presentation #3 Levesque)
Deborah A. Levesque, PhD, Carol O. Cummins, MLIS, MEd, James O. Prochaska, PhD, Janice M. Prochaska, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Gerontological Health
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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