Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Public Employees, Retirement & Social Security CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government employees' health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act and Its Impact on Public Employee Health Plans
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Public Employees, Retirement & Social Security CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government employees' health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act and Long-term Care
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee BenefitsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catastrophic health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Retirement Income and EmploymentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Medicare Handbook
Author: Medicare Catastrophic Act
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289106607
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 (MCCA) to identify options for restructuring benefits and financing, due to congressional and public concern regarding increased premiums. GAO found that: (1) MCCA, which authorized substantial increased protection for Medicare beneficiaries who incurred large health care expenses, established a catastrophic premium, a prescription drug premium, and a supplemental premium for higher-income beneficiaries, to pay for increased Medicare costs; (2) enhanced hospital insurance benefits included decreased inpatient services deductibles, a maximum beneficiary liability for skilled nursing facility services, more intensive home care services, and unlimited coverage for hospice care; and (3) enhanced supplementary medical insurance benefits included a cap on beneficiary cost-sharing, respite care benefits, mammography screening, and increased prescription drug coverage. GAO also found that alternatives to funding MCCA from beneficiary premiums included: (1) increasing hospital insurance tax rates paid by active workers and employers; (2) raising such general revenues as cigarette and alcohol taxes; (3) funding enhanced benefits in the same manner as regular benefits and new benefits entirely from beneficiaries; (4) repealing or modifying some or all the enhanced benefits; (5) redistributing MCCA funding among beneficiaries; (6) repealing or phasing out MCCA; and (7) making MCCA optional.
Supplemental Medicare Premium
Author: United States. Internal Revenue ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinsurance
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 and the Financial Impact on the Elderly
Author: Janet M. WoodCatastrophic Care--excess Revenues
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Federalism and Health Policy
Author: Alan WeilPublisher: The Urban Insitute
ISBN: 9780877667162
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The balance between state and federal health care financing for low-income people has been a matter of considerable debate for the last 40 years. Some argue for a greater federal role, others for more devolution of responsibility to the states. Medicaid, the backbone of the system, has been plagued by an array of problems that have made it unpopular and difficult to use to extend health care coverage. In recent years, waivers have given the states the flexibility to change many features of their Medicaid programs; moreover, the states have considerable flexibility to in establishing State Children's Health Insurance Programs. This book examines the record on the changing health safety net. How well have states done in providing acute and long-term care services to low-income populations? How have they responded to financial incentives and federal regulatory requirements? How innovative have they been? Contributing authors include Donald J. Boyd, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Teresa A. Coughlin, Ian Hill, Michael Housman, Robert E. Hurley, Marilyn Moon, Mary Beth Pohl, Jane Tilly, and Stephen Zuckerman.