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Improving Health Care Cost Projections for the Medicare Population: Summary of a Workshop
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Developing credible short-term and long-term projections of Medicare health care costs is critical for public- and private-sector policy planning, but faces challenges and uncertainties. There is uncertainty not only in the underlying economic and demographic assumptions used in projection models, but also in what a policy modeler assumes about future changes in the health status of the population and the factors affecting health status , the extent and pace of scientific and technological breakthroughs in medical care, the preferences of the population for particular kinds of care, the likelihood that policy makers will alter current law and regulations, and how ... Read more
Table of Contents- Front Matter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Current Models of Health Care Cost Projections
- 3 Modeling Medical Technology
- 4 Factors Affecting Health Status
- 5 Participants' Views on Needed Research
- References
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: Predicting Medicare Cost Growth--John N. Friedman
- Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Presenters
- Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members
- Committee on National Statistics
Product Details
Publisher
National Academies Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780309159760
SKU
V9780309159760
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