Medicare and Medicaid: Effects of Recent Legislation on Program and Beneficiary Costs : Report to the Chairman, Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives

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Page 2 - Act of 1981, the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, the...
Page 2 - We also analyzed information obtained from officials of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services...
Page 31 - State was otherwise entitled was to be reduced by 3 percent in fiscal year 1982, 4 percent in fiscal year 1983, and 4.5 percent in fiscal year 1984. A State could lower the amount of its reduction by...
Page 31 - ... unemployment rate exceeding 150 percent of the national average; and (3) demonstrating recoveries from fraud and abuse activities (and with respect to fiscal year 1982, third-party recoveries) equal to 1 percent of Federal payments. A State was entitled to a dollar-tor-dollar offset in its reductions if total Federal Medicaid expenditures in a year fell below a specified target amount.
Page 12 - ... health care for certain poor people. States use Federal funds and their own dollars to purchase medical care services on behalf of eligible aged, blind, and disabled individuals and dependent children and their families. State participation in the Medicaid program is voluntary; all States, as well as the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands have elected to do so. (Arizona operates under a special demonstration authority.) Federal outlays for Medicaid...
Page 53 - Cost sharing for durable medical equipment furnished as a home health benefit...
Page 16 - In addition, this law increased the part B deductible from $60 to $75 beginning in calendar year 1982.
Page 17 - TEFRA established a target rate reimbursement system for hospital services; this system limited the rate of increase in Medicare payments per case for a 3-year period beginning October 1, 1982.
Page 48 - June 5, 1981 97-34 Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 Aug. 13, 1981 97-35 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 Aug. 13, 1981 97-51 Funding of HHS Activities Oct.
Page 11 - Medicare, the reasonable charge for a service is the lowest of the actual charge...

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