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Medicare: Private Contracts
Description:
This report discusses private contracting for medicare,which is the term used to describe situations where a physician and a patient agree not to submit a claim for a service which would otherwise be covered and paid for by Medicare.
Date:
October 21, 1997
Creator:
O'Sullivan, Jennifer & Echeverria, Cecilia O
Medicare: Financing the Part A Hospital Insurance Program
Description:
This report discusses Medicare, which consists of two distinct parts — Part A (Hospital Insurance (HI)) and Part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI)). Part A is financed primarily through payroll taxes levied on current workers and their employers. Income from these taxes is credited to the HI trust fund. Part B is financed through a combination of monthly premiums paid by current enrollees and general revenues. Income from these sources is credited to the SMI trust fund.
Date:
May 5, 1998
Creator:
O'Sullivan, Jennifer
Medicare Expansion: President Clinton's Proposals to Allow Coverage Before Age 65
Description:
This report discusses medicare expansion; President Clinton's proposal to allow people ages 62 through 64 to buy into Medicare if they do not have access to employer-sponsored or federal health insurance.
Date:
March 31, 1998
Creator:
Lyke, Bob; Fuchs, Beth C.; O'Sullivan, Jennifer & Smith, Madeleine T.
Medicare: Payments to Physicians
Description:
This report discusses payments for physicians services under Medicare that are made on the basis of a fee schedule.
Date:
January 28, 1998
Creator:
O'Sullivan, Jennifer
Medicare: Prescription Drug Proposals
Description:
This report provides an overview of the President’s plan and the legislation introduced to date in the 106th Congress. It
Date:
June 8, 2000
Creator:
O'Sullivan, Jennifer
Medicare Beneficiary Access to Care: The Effects of New Prospective Payment Systems on Outpatient Hospital Care, Home Health Care, and Skilled Nursing Facility Care
Description:
This report discusses the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA 97), which required that prospective payment systems replace retrospective cost-based reimbursement systems for Medicare beneficiaries receiving care in hospital outpatient departments, from home health care agencies, and in skilled nursing facilities.
Date:
February 2, 2000
Creator:
Merck, Carolyn L.
Medicare: Changes to Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA 97, P.L. 105-33) Provisions
Description:
This report summarizes the major provisions of the agreement between the by House and Senate negotiators on the Medicare provisions.
Date:
November 19, 1999
Creator:
O'Sullivan, Jennifer; Merck, Carolyn L.; Smith, Madeleine T. & Tilson, Sibyl L.
Military Technicians: The Issue of Mandatory Retirement for Non-Dual-Status Technicians
Description:
This report describes the mandatory retirement provisions for certain “non-dual-status” military technicians contained in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (P.L. 106-65), discusses the stated rationale behind the policy, and quantifies the impact it will likely have on individual technicians.
Date:
March 28, 2000
Creator:
Kapp, Lawrence
Medicare+Choice Payments
Description:
This report discusses the M+C program that established new rules for beneficiary and plan participation. This report focuses on M+C payments.
Date:
May 8, 2002
Creator:
Chaikind, Hinda Ripps & Morgan, Paulette C.
Medicare+Choice Payments
Description:
This report discusses the M+C program that established new rules for beneficiary and plan participation. This report focuses on M+C payments.
Date:
January 22, 2003
Creator:
Chaikind, Hinda Ripps & Morgan, Paulette C.
Medicaid, SCHIP, and Other Health Provisions in H.R. 5661: Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000
Description:
This report discusses Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The report also discusses other major health provisions provisions of H.R. 5661 are incorporated, by reference into H.R. 4577, the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2001.
Date:
January 4, 2001
Creator:
Hearne, Jean P.; Herz, Elicia J. & Baumrucker, Evelyne P.
Medicare: Beneficiary Cost-Sharing Under Prescription Drug Legislation
Description:
This report provides an analysis of how the cost-sharing and premium provisions under the Prescription Drug and Medicare Improvement Act of 2003 (S. 1) and the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003 (H bill would affect the amount that a beneficiary would pay annually for prescription drugs.
Date:
July 25, 2003
Creator:
Peterson, Chris L.
Medicare: Beneficiary Cost-Sharing Under Proposed Prescription Drug Benefits
Description:
This report examines these proposals as well as the “Medicare Rx Drug Benefit and Discount Act of 2003,” which was introduced by Representative Charles Rangel, the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee. Specifically, this report provides background on how the cost-sharing and premium provisions under each bill would affect the amount that a beneficiary pays annually for prescription drugs.
Date:
June 17, 2003
Creator:
Peterson, Chris L.
Medicare: Beneficiary Cost-Sharing Under Proposed Prescription Drug Benefits
Description:
This report provides background on how the cost-sharing and premium provisions under each bill would affect the amount that a beneficiary pays annually for prescription drugs. In addition, this report gives examples of how annual cost-sharing would differ for beneficiaries with various levels of total prescription drug spending in 2006 under the plans.
Date:
June 26, 2003
Creator:
Peterson, Chris L.
Medicare Prescription Drug and Reform Legislation
Description:
This report describes the major features of S. 1, as ordered reported, and the measure to be considered by the House Ways and Means Committee, H.R. 2473, as ordered reported.
Date:
June 19, 2003
Creator:
O'Sullivan, Jennifer; Chaikind, Hinda Ripps; Tilson, Sibyl L.; Boulanger, Jennifer & Morgan, Paulette C.
Medicare Prescription Drug Provisions of S.1, as Passed by the Senate, and H.R. 1, as Passed by the House
Description:
This report discusses differences in the specifics of the prescription drug provisions in S. 1 and H.R. 1 and provides a side-by-side comparison of the Title I provisions of both bills.
Date:
July 11, 2003
Creator:
O'Sullivan, Jennifer
Legal Issues Related to Livestock Watering in Federal Grazing Districts
Description:
This report discusses proposed regulations related to livestock watering in federal grazing districts.
Date:
August 30, 1994
Creator:
Baldwin, Pamela
Federal Farm Promotion ("Check-off") Programs
Description:
This report discusses legislation establishing national generic promotion ("check-off') programs for 20 specified farm commodities. Thirteen of the 20 authorized programs are now in effect.
Date:
May 3, 1996
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
Grazing Fees: An Overview
Description:
This report briefly discusses charging fees for grazing private livestock on federal lands, which is a long-standing but contentious practice. Generally, livestock producers who use federal lands want to keep fees low, while conservation groups and others believe fees should be raised to approximate "fair market value."
Date:
May 21, 1996
Creator:
Cody, Betsy A.
Farm Commodity Legislation: Chronology, 1933-98
Description:
Farm commodity programs were a product of the Great Depression. This report discusses the history of farm commodity legislation. Since 1933, Congress has required the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to administer a variety of programs providing price support and income protection for the nations farmers.
Date:
February 9, 1999
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
Managing Farm Risk in a New Policy Era
Description:
This report discusses the enhancements to the crop insurance and revenue insurance programs that are expected to be considered by the 106th Congress in order to improve the farm financial safety net and preclude the need for ad hoc legislative assistance.
Date:
January 22, 1999
Creator:
Chite, Ralph M. & Jickling, Mark
Farm Commodity Programs: Sugar
Description:
This report discusses the federal sugar program, which authorized by the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 seeks to ensure the viability of the U.S. sugar producing sector primarily by supporting the incomes of sugar beet and sugarcane producers and of those firms that process each crop into sugar.
Date:
April 24, 1998
Creator:
Jurenas, Remy
Farm Economic Relief: Issues and Options for Congress
Description:
This report discusses issues regarding Agriculture funding, specifically the Federal Agriculture Improvement and
Reform (FAIR) Act (P.L. 104-127), which prescribed farm commodity support policy through 2002.
Date:
December 6, 2000
Creator:
Womach, Jasper & Becker, Geoffrey S.
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