Update Health AffairsVol. 17, No. 4 Medicare+Choice Provisions In The Balanced Budget Act Of 1997Sandra Christensen AffiliationsSandra Christensen is a principal analyst/economist at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).PUBLISHED:July/August 1998No Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.17.4.224AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextView PDFPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions View articleTOPICSFee-for-serviceBalanced Budget Act of 1997Medicare savings programsMedicareCapitationPaymentAdjusted average per capita costCost sharingCost reductionHealth maintenance organizations Loading Comments... Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. DetailsExhibitsReferencesRelated Article MetricsCitations: Crossref 14 History Published online 1 July 1998 InformationCopyright © by Project HOPE: The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the CBO.PDF downloadCited ByBoutique to Booming: Medicare Managed Care and the Private Path to Policy ChangeJournal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 41, No. 3Medicare Advantage Plans At A Crossroads—Yet AgainThe experience with private-plan contracting shows that assuring stable plan choices and extra benefits requires extra money.Robert A. Berenson and Bryan E. Dowd24 November 2008 | Health Affairs, Vol. 27, No. Supplement 1Privatization of Medicare: Toward Disentitlement and Betrayal of a Social Contract24 June 2016 | International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 34, No. 4The Effect of Insurance Status on Travel Time for Rural Medicare Patients18 August 2016 | Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 61, No. 2Medicare Contracting Risk/Medicare Risk Contracting: A Life-Cycle View from Twelve MarketsHealth Services Research, Vol. 38, No. 1p2Like Plugging the Holes in a Colander16 April 2013Medicare+Choice: An Interim Report CardHealth Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 4Medicare+Choice: Doubling Or Disappearing?A proposal to change the focus of this troubled program and use it to reward private plans that improve quality and help manage the care of Medicare beneficiaries with chronic diseases.Robert A. Berenson5 December 2018 | Health Affairs, Vol. 20, No. Suppl1Appropriateness of Coronary Angiography after Myocardial Infarction among Medicare Beneficiaries — Managed Care versus Fee for ServiceNew England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 343, No. 20Physician Perceptions of HMO Care for Older Persons27 April 2015 | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 48, No. 6What Drives Medicare Managed Care Growth?Local forces may explain why the Medicare managed care market has not developed as the optimists predicted.Randall S. Brown and Marsha R. Gold13 December 2018 | Health Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 6To decide or not to decide for others: Competency, choice and consequencesAging & Mental Health, Vol. 3, No. 4ISO Quick Fix, Free Lunch, and Share of PieJournal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 24, No. 5Medicare's Choice Explosion? Implications For BeneficiariesEven if more managed care plans come on board, many beneficiaries may not get the care they need.Patricia Neuman and Kathryn M. Langwell12 June 2018 | Health Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 1