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C G Tudor

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PubMed1995

Medicaid expenditures and state responses.

This overview summarizes issues addressed in this issue of the Health Care Financing Review, entitled "Medicaid and State Health Reform." Articles cover the following topics: growth in the level of expenditures for Medicaid and creative financing strategies by States to manage these increases; section 1115 demonstration waivers; States' experiences with implementing approved section 1115 demonstrations; how section 1115 demonstration waivers fit into larger State health reform efforts; and other reform efforts in two States.

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PubMed1987

Changes in the qualifications of medical school applicants, 1981 to 1985.

The decline in the number of medical school applicants has prompted concerns among medical educators regarding the effects of this decrease on the qualifications of the applicant pool. Changes in the qualifications of medical school applicants were analyzed in terms of age, sex, and ethnicity or racial group using two measures of quality: Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores and grade-point averages. The distributions of these measures for 1981 and 1985 applicants were compared. The results showed that there were significant but modest gains over the years in the percentage of men and women applicants who scored from 10 to 15 on the MCAT biology, chemistry, physics, and science problems subtests. There were also significant percentage gains for applicants in all age categories, except applicants over age 32, and for all ethnic or racial groups except blacks. The authors conclude that a variety of sociodemographic, educational, and selection factors may account for these changes.

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Satisfaction with care: do Medicare HMOs make a difference?

Differences in satisfaction with care and perceptions of doctor/patient interactions were compared for Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and beneficiaries in the fee-for-service (FFS) sector (nonenrollees). After controlling for covariates, beneficiaries expressed satisfaction with their care, regardless of where they received it. However, HMO enrollees were more likely than nonenrollees were to be very satisfied with the costs of care and with getting care at one location. In contrast, for every components-of-care measure, nonenrollees were more likely than HMO enrollees were to indicate high satisfaction with the quality of interaction with their physicians.

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