Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Beneficiary Knowledge Indicies from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (October 2002)

摘要

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 significantly increased the number and range of health plan options potentially available to Medicare beneficiaries. To inform Medicare beneficiaries about these choices, the law provided for specific information dissemination activities that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implemented as a part of its National Medicare Education Program (NMEP). The NMEP is the largest and most comprehensive information program ever undertaken by the Medicare program. One important feature of the NMEP is the Medicare & You handbook which was first nationally distributed in 1999.