5168.0 Medicare: Utilization, Changes, and the Future

Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 2:30 PM
Oral
Moderator:
Hongdao Meng, PhD

2:30 PM
Healthy Life Expectancy for Medicare Managed Care Elderly
Vijit Chinburapa, PhD CPHQ, Beth Hartman Ellis, PhD, Mary Anne Hope, MS and Laura Giordano, MBA
     
2:45 PM
Utilization of Custodial Nursing Homes by Elderplan Social HMO Members: Predicting Expected Rates with the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey Data
Eliot Fishman, PhD and Suzanne Tamang, MS
        
3:00 PM
Consumer decision making: Motivators of and barriers to colon cancer screening among the Medicare population
Mark Rudzinski, MBA, Pauline Lapin, MHS, Beth Simon, PhD, James F. Coan and Tamara Starke, MS
           
3:15 PM
Dental benefits in a Medicare Advantage plan: Utilization during the first two years
Stephen D. Hooper, MBA
           
3:30 PM
Fall-related hospitalizations among elderly Medicare beneficiaries
William Buczko, PhD
        

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Gerontological Health
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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