Download or read book Expanding Eligibility for Medicare Savings Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York State can save up to $180 million a year for its EPIC (Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage) prescription drug assistance program by increasing the number of EPIC members who qualify for Medicare's Extra Help program (also called the Low-Income Subsidy). Extra Help, the fully federally funded assistance program for people with low incomes, would pay the premiums and cost-sharing under the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit that are now largely paid by EPIC, a program exclusively funded with state monies. The best way to increase enrollment in Extra Help is to expand eligibility for Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs), which pay premiums and cost-sharing for low-income people with Medicare and automatically qualify MSP enrollees for Extra Help. The savings generated for EPIC offset all or most of the additional state cost from increased enrollment in MSPs, while giving a substantial benefit to older New Yorkers with limited incomes. In addition, this reform could help fund an expansion of EPIC to include people under the age of 65 who have Medicare because of a disability.
Download or read book Medicare Savings Programs written by Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Congress established four MSPs and the LIS program to help low-income beneficiaries pay for some or all of Medicare's cost-sharing requirements. Historically low enrollment in MSPs has been attributed to lack of awareness about the programs and cumbersome enrollment processes through state Medicaid programs. MIPPA included requirements for SSA and state Medicaid agencies aimed at eliminating barriers to MSP enrollment. Most notably, MIPPA created a new pathway to MSP enrollment by requiring SSA, beginning January 1, 2010, to transfer the information from a LIS application to the relevant state Medicaid agency, and the state must initiate an application for MSP enrollment. MIPPA also required GAO to study the effect of these requirements. This report describes (1) SSA's implementation of the requirements; (2) how MSP enrollment levels have changed from 2007 through 2011 and the factors that may have contributed to those changes; and (3) the effects of the MIPPA requirements on states' administration of MSPs. GAO reviewed documents and data on SSA's efforts to transfer applications and implement other MIPPA requirements, analyzed MSP enrollment data from CMS, surveyed Medicaid officials from the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and contacted officials from 6 states selected, in part, because they accounted for over 20 percent of"
Download or read book Medicare Savings Programs written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Savings Programs: Implementation of Requirements Aimed at Increasing Enrollment
Download or read book Medicare Savings Programs written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Savings Programs written by Kathleen M. King and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress established four Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs) and the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) program to help low-income beneficiaries pay for some or all of Medicare's cost-sharing requirements. Historically low enrollment in MSPs has been attributed to lack of awareness about the programs and cumbersome enrollment processes through state Medicaid programs. The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) included requirements for the Social Security Admin. (SSA) and state Medicaid agencies aimed at eliminating barriers to MSP enrollment. Most notably, MIPPA created a new pathway to MSP enrollment by requiring SSA, beginning Jan. 1, 2010, to transfer the information from a LIS application to the relevant state Medicaid agency, and the state must initiate an application for MSP enrollment. This report describes (1) SSA's implementation of the requirements; (2) how MSP enrollment levels have changed from 2007 through 2011 and the factors that may have contributed to those changes; and (3) the effects of the MIPPA requirements on states' administration of MSPs. Tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Medicare Savings Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Savings Program Expansion Provision in H R 3 Could Provide a Cost Cap for More Than 3 5 Million Beneficiaries written by Kaitlin Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Increasing Enrollment for the Medicare Savings Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Private Health Plans Vs Medicare Savings Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Congress debates whether to cut the extra payments Medicare makes to private health plans, the insurance companies offering these plans have argued that the overpayments they receive help lower the out-of-pocket costs (premiums, copayments and deductibles) for low-income people with Medicare, especially African Americans and Latinos. But an analysis by the Medicare Rights Center of Medicare private fee-for-service plans reveals that often people with low incomes and minority communities pay more compared to their wealthier neighbors and get fewer benefits when they join these private plans. A far better health care deal for low-income people with Medicare is the Medicare Savings Programs, which subsidize premiums, copayments and other out-of-pocket expenses. In addition, no private health plan alone matches what the federal low income assistance program "Extra Help" offers: copayments of $5.35 of less for each prescription, no monthly premiums, no deductible and no gap in coverage. People enrolled in a Medicare Savings Program automatically get Extra Help. A better way to spend the $65 billion in overpayments the insurance companies will be getting over the next five years would be to expand enrollment in the Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs). Income and asset eligibility criteria for MSPs should be raised to match those of the Extra Help program. In this way lawmakers can target financial assistance to those who need it most.
Download or read book Toward Making Medicare Work for Low income Beneficiaries written by Patricia Nemore and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Coinsurance on the Health of Adults written by Robert Henry Brook and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 1984 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does free medical care lead to better health than insurance plans that require the patient to shoulder part of the cost? In an effort to answer this question, the authors studied 3,958 people between the ages of 14 and 61 who were free of disability that precluded work and had been randomly assigned to a set of insurance plans for three or five years. One plan provided free care; the others required enrollees to pay a share of their medical bills. As reported in R-2847-HHS, patients in the latter group made approximately one-third fewer visits to a physician and were hospitalized about one-third less often. For persons with poor vision and for low-income persons with high blood pressure, free care brought an improvement (vision better by 0.2 Snellen lines, diastolic blood pressure lower by 3 mm Hg); better control of blood pressure reduced the calculated risk of early death among those at high risk. For the average participant, as well as for subgroups differing in income and initial health status, no significant effects were detected on eight other measures of health status and health habits. Confidence intervals for these eight measures were sufficiently narrow to rule out all but a minimal influence, favorable or adverse, of free care for the average participant. For some measures of health in subgroups of the population, however, the broader confidence intervals make this conclusion less certain.
Download or read book Federalism and Health Policy written by Alan Weil and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2003 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicaid Eligibility Quality Control written by United States. Social and Rehabilitation Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Savings Programs Results of Social Security Administration s 2002 Outreach to Low Income Beneficiaries written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Permanent Supportive Housing written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.
Download or read book The Affordable Care Act written by Tamara Thompson and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to increase health insurance quality and affordability, lower the uninsured rate by expanding insurance coverage, and reduce the costs of healthcare overall. Along with sweeping change came sweeping criticisms and issues. This book explores the pros and cons of the Affordable Care Act, and explains who benefits from the ACA. Readers will learn how the economy is affected by the ACA, and the impact of the ACA rollout.
