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Session: Moving Medicaid and Medicare to Managed Care
3018.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Moving Medicaid and Medicare to Managed Care
The session will describe: five-factor patient activation scales; four risk factors associated with medical debt; 3)the benefits of an advocacy network that utilizes community resources, the importance of a "medical home".
Learning Objectives: Papers will present:1)five-factor patient activation scales; 2)articulate four risk factors associated with medical debt; 3)the benefits of an advocacy network that utilizes community resources, and 4)recognize the importance of a "medical home".
Moderator(s):Sora Park Tanjasiri, DrPH, MPH
8:30 AMPromoting people with Medicare to be more active in health care decision-making
Amy Heller, PhD, MPH, Sunyna S Williams, PhD, Gerald A Adler, PhD
8:45 AMCan managed care help the Medicaid underserved? The case of the South Carolina Physician Enhanced Payment (PEP) program  [ Recorded presentation ]
W. David Bradford, PhD, Walter J. Jones, PhD, David M. Ward, PhD
9:00 AMQuality improvement in managed care: Cultural competency training as key to improved access for immigrant and minority populations  [ Recorded presentation ]
Francesca Gany, MD, MS, Jessica J. Lee, Jyotsna Changrani, MD, Herbert Segal, MD, MPH, Kim Farquharson, Cathy Weigle, Danielle Wolf, Naomi Wolinsky
9:15 AMBreaking down barriers in mandatory managed care: A grass roots approach  [ Recorded presentation ]
Elana Berman, MPH, Christine Molnar, MS
9:30 AMMany faces of medical debt  [ Recorded presentation ]
Matthew Levi, Anne Wallis, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA