title: Medicare risk HMOs: careful consideration can yield rewards.
abstract: Enlightened employers have discovered that Medicare HMOs, especially risk HMOs, offer employees and retirees a win-win alternative. They lower today's costs, controlling-term increases and offer the broadest, quality coverage. Implementing a "winning" Medicare risk HMO requires careful scrutiny of how the HMO operates and delivers care to the Medicare audience and depends on effective communication that is sensitive to the special needs of retirees.
authors.affiliation: Godwins Booke & Dickenson, USA.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Marlowe
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Childress
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D002204:Capitation Fee; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005376:Financial Management; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010415:Pensions; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D012179:Retirement / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States