Federal Employees Health Benefits Legislation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Civil Service, Post Office, and General Services of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, December 1, 1983 |
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administrative adverse selection alcoholism and drug American Psychiatric Association amount Association average bill Blue Cross/Blue Shield carrier catastrophic coverage Chairman CHAMPUS coinsurance Committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contract copayments cost containment coverage for alcoholism deductibles disease drug abuse effect employee or annuitant employees and annuitants Employees Health Benefits enrollees expenses Federal Employees Health federal workers FEHB plans FEHB program FEHBP Government contribution health benefits plan Health Benefits Program health care health insurance health plans hospital individual legislation level of benefits LIBRARY OF CONGRESS mandated Medicare ment mental disorders mental health benefits mental health services mental illness National nurse-midwives Office of Personnel organization out-of-pocket out-of-pocket expenses paragraph patients payment peer review percent Personnel Management plans offered premium private sector problems qualified health benefits reduced Senator STEVENS Social Security Act Subcommittee subsection tion treatment of mental United States Code utilization voucher
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Page 326 - Accounts prepared by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the US Department of Commerce.
Page 300 - Office may prescribe reasonable minimum standards for health benefits plans described by section 8903 of this title, and for carriers offering the plans. Approval of a plan may be withdrawn only after notice and opportunity for hearing to the carrier concerned without regard to subchapter II of chapter 5 and chapter 7 of this title.
Page 87 - Act of 1 934, as amended; —titles VI and XVI of the Public Health Service Act; — the nondiscrimination provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981; —section 307(a) of the Family Violence Prevention and Services...
Page 7 - Offices of the Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force...
Page 214 - Code, is amend4 ed— 5 (1) by striking out "and" at the end of paragraph 6 (8); 7 (2) by striking out the period at the end of para8 graph...
Page 112 - In an almost mindless fashion became apparent when the field attempted to get an explanation for the action. A Blue Cross/Blue Shield vice president said at a public meeting of the Interagency Committee on Federal Activities for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism on May 3, 1982, that this organization was responsible for the actual decision to drop the benefit. He said the action was in response to the directive by 0PM to reduce benefits by about $150 million as the Blue Cross/Blue Shield share of the...
Page 253 - ... for the preceding fiscal year increased by the percentage increase in the medical care component of the consumer price index for all urban consumers (as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) for the twelvemonth period ending in March preceding the beginning of the fiscal year, rounded to the nearest $100,000...
Page 125 - Alcoholism, as an illness, should be covered by medical and hospital care insurance contracts, subject to benefits comparable to those which apply to other chronic illnesses.
Page 150 - Indirect costs are the income or income-equivalent losses which result from deaths due to mental illness, total disability due to mental illness and the loss of productive time to those individuals...
Page 229 - ... of this title, and for carriers offering the plans. Approval of a plan may be withdrawn only after notice and opportunity for hearing to the carrier concerned without regard to subchapter II of chapter 5 and chapter 7 of this title. The Office may terminate the contract of a carrier effective at the end of the contract term, if the Office finds that at no time during the preceding two contract terms did the carrier have 300 or more employees and annuitants, exclusive of family members, enrolled...