Inter-governmental Transfers: Violations of the Federal-state Medicaid Partnership Or Legitimate State Budget Tool? : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, March 18 and April 1, 2004 |
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Page 19 - Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA) and the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000...
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Page 17 - KATHRYN G. ALLEN, DIRECTOR, HEALTH CARE — MEDICAID AND PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE ISSUES, US GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: I am pleased to be here today as you explore the issue of states' use of intergovernmental transfers in the federalstate Medicaid program.
Page 17 - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is the federal agency responsible for the program, and the states design and administer their programs with considerable discretion and flexibility within broad federal guidelines.
Page 19 - Excessive disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments DSH payments are meant to compensate those hospitals that care for a disproportionate number of low-income patients. Unusually large DSH payments were made to certain hospitals, which then returned the bulk of the state and federal funds to the state. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of...
Page 61 - God bless you. [Whereupon, at 5:22 pm, the hearing was adjourned.] [Additional material submitted for the record follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION I.
Page 64 - State . . . and which, in the case of hospitals, take into account the situation of hospitals which serve a disproportionate number of low income patients with special needs...
Page 2 - Speaker, is the gentleman prepared to state with some degree of certainty what the effect of the Senate amendment is on the Federal Tort Claims Act, and on the exclusionary rule at this time? Mr.
Page 20 - Medicaid: States Use Illusory Approaches to Shift Program Costs to Federal Government.
Page 29 - ... new ways to strengthen and improve the Medicaid and SCHIP programs. In addition to structural reform, improving the fiscal integrity of the Medicaid program will continue to be a priority for the Administration and HHS. Among these efforts, the Administration proposes capping the reimbursement level to individual state and local government providers to no more than the cost of providing services to Medicaid recipients and restricts the use of certain types of intergovernmental transfers. The...