Analysis of Medicare Beneficiary Knowledge Data using the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Phase 3.2

摘要

The report uses the 1998 through 2000 rounds of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to measure progress toward achieving the campaign goals of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) education following the national distribution of the 'Handbooks Medicare and You 2000' in 1999 and 'Medicare and You in 2001' in 2000. In addition to descriptive analyses, the authors use longitudinal regression modeling to measure if the latest Handbook, 'Medicare and You 2001,' was significantly related to selected campaign objective outcomes. The authors also use the MCBS to report trends in selected beneficiary outcomes over the 6-year period (1995 to 2000) during which the education campaign was implemented. A companion technical note from this phase of the research, Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Beneficiary Knowledge Indices from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (Bann and Berkman, 2002), was recently prepared. It contains evaluations of two knowledge indices that were used in this report to measure progress toward the education campaign objective of beneficiaries' understanding of important Medicare concepts.