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From a Generation Behind to a Generation Ahead: Transforming Tradition Medicare
From a Generation Behind to a Generation Ahead Transforming Tradition Medicare Author:Paul Ginsburg This report is the final product of a Study Panel convened by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) as part of its Restructuring Medicare for the Long Term project. The Study Panel's assignment has been to analyze options for Medicare's traditional fee-for-service (FFS) program for the next century. It includes experts draw... more »n from medicine, public policy, law, and industry. In a series of meetings, commissioned papers, and writings by individual Study Panel members and Academy staff over an 18-month period, the Study Panel on Fee-for-Service Medicare analyzed key characteristics and difficulties of the FFS program, state-of-the art management practices among private insurers, and policy alternatives to prepare FFS Medicare for the next generation of beneficiaries.« less