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The March 1998 workshop focused on the Medicare provisions in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which mandate that the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) develop a "nationally coordinated education and publicity campaign" in 1998 and move Medicare beneficiaries to an open-season enrollment process by the year 2002.
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Extensive research findings and workshop participants who work with the Medicare population, such as Age Wave and The Senior Network, have found that the current Medicare population lacks adequate basic knowledge about what the traditional Medicare program covers, let alone what the newer health care delivery options will add to the mix (Hibbard and lewett, 1998; Kleimann, 199Sa; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1997a)
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