Raising awareness of medicare member rights among seniors and caregivers in California

R. Olson, R.M. Grossman, P.L. Fu and F. Sabogal

American Journal of Public Health, 2010, vol. 100, issue 1, 9-12

Abstract: Many Medicare recipients do not understand their health care rights. Lumetra, formerly California's Medicare quality improvement organization, developed a multifaceted outreach program to increase beneficiary awareness of its services and of the right to file quality-of-care complaints and discharge appeals. Layered outreach activities to Medicare members and their caregivers in 2 targeted counties consisted of paid media, direct mailings, community outreach, and online marketing. Calls to Lumetra's helpline and visits to its Web site-measures of beneficiary awareness of case review services-increased by 106% and 1214%, respectively, in the targeted counties during the 4-month outreach period. Only small increases occurred in nontargeted counties, increases in quality-of-care complaints and discharge appeal rates were detected during a longer follow-up period. (Am J Public Health).

Date: 2010
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