Robert A. Berenson, M.D., Senior Advisor to the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy and Jane Horvath, Deputy Director of Partnership for Solutions have prepared a paper concerning people with chronic conditions for The Center for Medicare Advocacy's March 2002 Conference on Medicare Coordinated Care in Washington DC.

The paper, "The Clinical Characteristics of Medicare Beneficiaries and Implications for Medicare Reform", provides an analysis of the Medicare population.  By providing a profile of today’s Medicare beneficiaries, the paper explores whether the changed nature of the Medicare program population may mean that Medicare's traditional orientation on episodic care may no longer be sufficient to address some critical needs of the current population.  The paper also addresses some potential long-term and short-term solutions to this discrepancy.

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