Medicare and Medicaid
New medicare and medicaid study results reported from R.G. Roetzheim et al
Published in Physician Business Week, July 1st, 2008
In this recent study, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To determine if the type of insurance. arrangement, specifically health maintenance organization (HMO) vs fee-for-service (FFS), affects cancer outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities. Retrospective cohort. We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare linked dataset to identify beneficiaries older and younger than 65 years entitled to Medicare benefits because of disability (Social Security Disability Insurance) who subsequently were diagnosed as having breast cancer (n = 6839) or non-small cell lung cancer (n = 10,229) from 1988 through 1999."
"We categorized...
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