Medicare therapeutic shoe demonstration
Subtitle: report to Congress
By: Louis W. Sullivan
Contributors: United States. Health Care Financing Administration; United States. Congress; Mathematica Policy Research, Inc
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration, Office of Research and Demonstrations
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Claims administration; Shoes; Diseases; Costs; Medicare; Medicare beneficiaries; Services for; Foot; Complications; Therapeutic use; Diabetes
Notes: "This report is based on a study conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., for the Health Care Financing Administration (Evaluation of OBRA 87 Medicare payment for therapeutic shoes for individuals with severe diabetic foot disease, Contract no. 500-87-0028-9)"--Prelim. leaf [i].

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services R & D projects database : tracking job number 213.

SR number 88-040; Project no.: 500-87-0028/09.

Project title: Evaluation of OBRA'87 Medicare payment for therapeutic shoes for individuals with severe diabetic foot disease demonstration; Awardee: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; Project officer: Tony Hausner; Funding level: 400080; Start date 6/30/1988; End date: 6/29/1991.

Includes bibliographical references (leaf 79).

In folder: Report to Congress / Medicare Therapeutic Shoes Demonstration 1990-1993.