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Medicare Advantage: Whose Cost, Whose Benefit?


Monday, July 16, 2007

Speakers

Karen Ignagni, America's Health Insurance Plans, Speaker
John Rother, AARP, Speaker
Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute, Speaker
Jeanne Lambrew, George Washington University, Speaker
Peter Orszag, Congressional Budget Office, Speaker
Diane Rowland, Kaiser Family Foundation, Moderator
Ed Howard, Alliance for Health Reform, Moderator

Transcript, Event Summary and/or Webcast and Podcast

Transcript: Medicare Advantage (Adobe Acrobat PDF), 7/23/2007
Full Webcast/Podcast: Medicare Advantage: Whose Cost, Whose Benefit?
The transcript, full webcast and podcast for this briefing are provided by Kaiser Family Foundation.

Speaker Presentations

Rowland - Medicare Advantage Overview (PowerPoint), 7/16/2007
Lambrew - Medicare Advantage Choices (PowerPoint), 7/16/2007
Antos - Medicare Advantage: Restructure Payments for Results (PowerPoint), 7/16/2007
Ignagni - The Value of Medicare Advantage (PowerPoint), 7/16/2007
Orszag - The Medicare Advantage Program (PowerPoint), 7/16/2007

Source Materials

The Medicare Advantage Program: Statement of Peter R. Orszag (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Testimony Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, 6/28/2007
Has Medicare Been Privatized? Implications of the Medicare Modernization Act (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Center for American Progress, 2/8/2006
Low-Income and Minority Beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage Plans (Adobe Acrobat PDF), America's Health Insurance Plans, 2/1/2007
The Medicare Advantage Program & MedPAC Recommendations: Statement of Mark E. Miller (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Testimony Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, 6/28/2007
Medicare Advantage & the Federal Budget: Statement of Mark McClellan (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Testimony Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, 6/28/2007
News Release: MedPAC Releases Report on Medicare Payment Policy (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), 6/15/2007
Medicare Advantage Fact Sheet (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Kaiser Family Foundation, 7/1/2007
Medicare At A Glance (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Kaiser Family Foundation, 2/1/2007
Issue Brief: Private Plans in Medicare - A 2007 Update (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Kaiser Family Foundation, 3/14/2007
Issue Brief: An Examination of Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Kaiser Family Foundation, 3/14/2007
Getting Medicare Right: Presentation of William Novelli (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Center for American Progress, 7/11/2007
Speaker Biographies- Medicare Advantage: Whose Cost, Whose Benefit? (Adobe Acrobat PDF), The Alliance for Health Reform, 7/12/2007
Key Issues and Implications for Beneficiaries - Statement of Patricia Neuman (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Testimony before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, 6/28/2007
Sourcelist- Medicare Advantage: Whose Cost, Whose Benefit? (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Alliance for Health Reform, 7/18/2007
The Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans (Adobe Acrobat PDF), The Commonwealth Fund, 11/1/2006
Medicare Beneficiary Out-of-Pocket Costs: Are Medicare Advantage Plans a Better Deal? (Adobe Acrobat PDF), The Commonwealth Fund, 5/1/2006

Offsite Materials (briefing documents saved on other websites)

CMS: Seven Private Fee-for-Service Plans to Suspend Marketing, CQ HealthBeat News, 6/15/2007
Curbing Medicare Overpayments to Private Insurers Could Benefit Minorities, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 5/14/2007

Photos

Diane Rowland of The Kaiser Family Foundation -- moderator at the July 16th briefing cosponsored by The Kaiser Family Foundation.
Jeanne Lambrew of George Washington University -- speaker at the July 16th briefing cosponsored by The Kaiser Family Foundation.

Joseph Antos of the American Enterprise Institute -- speaker at the July 16th briefing cosponsored by The Kaiser Family Foundation.
Peter Orszag of the Congressional Budget Office -- speaker at the July 16th briefing cosponsored by The Kaiser Family Foundation.

Karen Ignagni of America's Health Insurance Plans -- speaker at the July 16th briefing cosponsored by The Kaiser Family Foundation.

 

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