Material for this presentation was drawn from:
Improving Prescription Drug Coverage for Rural Medicare Beneficiaries: Key Rural Considerations and Objectives for Legislative Proposals, June 30, 2000, P2000-8. A Joint Policy Paper of the Maine Rural Health Research Center and the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
A Rural Assessment of Leading Proposals to Redesign the Medicare Program, May 31, 2000, P2000-4, RUPRI Rural Health Panel
Calculating and Using the Area Wage Index of the Medicare Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System, Guest Author Anthony Wellever, Delta Rural Health Consulting and Research, June, 2000, PB2000-5, RUPRI Rural Health Panel
Medicare+Choice in Rural Areas: Impact of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, a presentation by Timothy D. McBride, University of Missouri, St. Louis and RUPRI Rural Health Panel