Medicare: Opportunities Are Available to Apply Managed Care Strategies. Statementof Janet L. Shikles, Assistant Comptroller General, Health, Education, and Human Services Division

摘要

We are pleased to be here today to participate in your discussion on expandingmanaged care under the Medicare program. For the past week you have been examining weaknesses in Medicare's predominantly fee-for-service program, which cost the government $162 billion in fiscal year 1994 and consumes an ever greater share of the federal budget each year. In testimony to the Subcommittee earlier this week, we reported that the magnitude of the Medicare program has overwhelmed the government's ability to police the hundreds of millions of claims submitted annually. Today the Subcommittee is examining managed care options as alternatives to the current claim-by-claim management of program dollars.