Against all odds and expectations, enrollments in health plans qualified under the Affordable Care Act are surging Monday toward -- and maybe beyond -- the 7-million figure projected by the Congressional Budget Office before Oct. 1, when the open-enrollment period began.
To measure formal expectations for enrollment, administrators were asked whether their CCOP expects physicians to enroll a minimum number of patients in clinical trials.
Rewards with expectations for enrollment: CCOPs that provide incentives may also be more likely to have expectations for enrollment.
Regarding the IPP construct, the majority of the construct was determined by expectations for enrollment (β = 0.82), although all five measures were statistically significant (p < 0.05).
The physician survey included specific questions regarding physician perceptions surrounding expectations for enrollment, research support provided by the CCOP, ability to provide input on which clinical trials to open, how well he or she is kept informed of CCOP activities, recognition received from the CCOP, as well as attitudes regarding the importance of cancer clinical trials.
Many of the nation's largest payers are already exceeding their enrollment expectations in these types of plans for January.
Based on trial entry criteria and enrollment expectations, statin-treated and statin-intolerant populations were developed with similar entry LDLc levels in the presence and absence of statin background, respectively.
The marketplaces were generally successful in their first year, as enrollment surpassed expectations.
We expect higher patient enrollment among physicians with strong implementation climate perceptions because perceptions that a CCOP institutes enrollment expectations, provides support for the enrollment of patients, as well as recognizes enrollment efforts should encourage physicians to enroll more patients in cancer clinical trials.
J.P. Morgan upgraded PacifiCare to "neutral" from "underweight" and raised earnings estimates on the consumer health organization, citing an expectation of accelerated Medicare enrollment entering 2005.
