Comparing Mortality and Time Until Death for Medicare HMO and FFS Beneficiaries. From: Health Services Research | Date: February 1, 2001| Author: Maciejewski, Matthew L.; Dowd, Bryan; Call, Kathleen Thiede; Feldman, Roger | COPYRIGHT 2001 American College of Healthcare Executives. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Objective. To compare adjusted mortality rates of TEFRA-risk HMO enrollees and disenrollees with rates of beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare fee-for-service sector (FFS), and to compare the time until death for decedents in these three groups.

Data Source. Data are from the 124 counties with the largest TEFRA-risk HMO enrollment using 1993-1994 Medicare Denominator files for beneficiaries enrolled in the FFS and TEFRA-risk HMO sectors.

Study Design. A retr...

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