• A Brief History of the Medicare Program

• A Consumer Perspective on Medicare in 2005 - Comments by Brian Berggren - Co-Chair of MJC at Medicare’s 40th Anniversary Celebration and Forum. August 2, 2005
  

• Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 – An Upper Midwest Policy Paper by the National Institute on Health Policy

•          Policy Paper Summary
          Implications of the Policy Paper

  • On Consumers

  • On Providers

  • On Health Plan and Payers

• The Impact of Inadequate Medicare Reimbursement – May 2002 Medicare Justice Study
  

  2005 Medicare Advantage Payment Rates & Regions- national map 

Source - CMS 2005 Data

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