Download or read book Policy Options to Improve the Performance of Low Income Subsidy Programs for Medicare Beneficiaries written by Stephen Zuckerman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low-income Medicare beneficiaries are eligible for subsidies to help them pay premiums and cost sharing. However, these subsidies fall short of those contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that help low-income families afford adequate health coverage. In this report we consider policy options to reform Medicare's low-income subsidies to better align with ACA provisions. We estimate that a significant simplification in low-income protection and cost-sharing rules could greatly reduce burdens on the poorest and sickest beneficiaries. Depending on how they are implemented, these reforms could either reduce or only modestly increase total public spending.
Download or read book Forum Session Announcement Restructuring Medicare Cost Sharing written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, both the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the U. [...] In its June 2012 report, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended that Congress instruct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to redesign traditional Medicare Part A and B cost sharing.2 And over the past three years, staff of the Con- gressional Budget Office and researchers from think tanks, founda- tions, and academia have modeled various restructuring proposals to assess thei. [...] Other proposals seek to include catastrophic protection and structure Medicare's cost sharing to more closely resemble commercial health insurance.3 Re- gardless of their underlying goals, these proposals typically include a unified deductible for Parts A and B, coinsurance or copayments for all services, a cap on out-of-pocket expenses, and the creation of incentives or restrictions to reduce the. [...] (See Table 1 for a description of the MSP programs' benefits and their eligibility criteria.) TABLE 1 Medicare Savings Programs: Eligibility Criteria and Benefits, 2013 PROGRAM INCOME ASSETS (Individuals/Couples)† BENEFITS Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) Above Medicaid levels and at or below 100% of the FPL* $7,080/$10,620 Pays premiums, deductibles, coinsurance for Parts A and B; Full LIS‡ f. [...] Stephen Zuckerman, Baoping Shang, and Timothy Waidmann, "Policy Op- tions to Improve the Performance of Low Income Subsidy Programs for Medicare Beneficiaries," The Urban Institute Health Policy Center, January 2012, available at www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412494-Policy-Options-to-Improve-the- Performance-of-Low-Income-Subsidy-Programs-for-Medicare-Beneficiaries.pdf; Stan Dorn and Baoping Shang, "S.
Download or read book The Medicare Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearing on Medicare Programs for Low income Beneficiaries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy SSA Continues to Approve Applicants But Millions of Individuals Have Not Yet Applied written by Barbara D. Bovbjerg and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help the elderly and disabled with prescription drug costs, the Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), which created a voluntary outpatient prescription drug benefit (Medicare Part D). A key element of the prescription drug benefit is the low-income subsidy, or ¿extra help,¿ available to Medicare beneficiaries with limited income and resources to assist them in paying their premiums and other out-of-pocket costs. To assess the Social Security Admin¿s. implementation of the subsidy, this report provides info. on: (1) the number of applicants approved for or denied the low-income subsidy; and (2) challenges of identifying individuals eligible for the subsidy and targeting outreach efforts.
Download or read book Low income Medicare Beneficiaries written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing the Design of the Low Income Subsidy Program in Medicare written by James R. Baumgardner and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The structure of the Medicare Part D prescription drug program generally encourages plan sponsors to submit low bids. However, rules in the program relating to low-income beneficiaries generate a different set of incentives for plans seeking to serve those beneficiaries. This report finds that over the first five years of the Part D program, two types of plans emerged -- those that catered primarily to beneficiaries receiving low-income subsidies (LIS plans) and those that catered primarily to standard beneficiaries (non-LIS plans). For each additional plan sponsor that entered the market, non-LIS basic plans reduced their bids by a statistically significant $0.40 to $0.70 (or .5%-.8%) per month of coverage, on average, while the bids of LIS plans did not repond in a statistically significant way. LIS plans were also more likely to increase their bids so that their premiums approached the maximum premium subsidy, called the low-income benchmark. Figures and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy written by A. Bruce Steinwald and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help defray the cost of prescription drugs for beneficiaries with limited means, the Medicare Prescription, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 included the low-income subsidy (LIS) in the Part D prescription drug insurance program. To qualify for the LIS, beneficiaries must be enrolled in a Part D plan and their assets and income must be less than the thresholds established by the law. This report focuses on beneficiaries¿ access to prescription drugs by examining: (1) the importance of assets and income in LIS denials in 2006 and 2007; and (2) state and manufacturer programs providing access to prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Modernizing Medicare Cost sharing written by Stephanie Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Will Measures to Control Medicare Spending Affect Rural Communities written by Paul D. Frenzen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Savings Programs and Low Income Subsidy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eligible But Not Enrolled written by Timothy D. McBride and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Time for Solutions written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Estimates of Potential Eligibility for Low income Subsidies Under Medicare written by Erik Meijer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act (Pub. L. No. 108-173) added a new prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program known as Part D (prescription drug coverage), as well as the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) program to provide "extra help" with premiums, deductibles, and copayments for Medicare Part D beneficiaries with low income and limited assets. This analysis was designed to provide an independent estimate of the LIS-eligible population as of 2006, to examine the robustness of the estimate against alternative assumptions and estimation methods, to examine the characteristics of the LIS-eligible population, and to project the size of the LIS-eligible population to 2008. An estimated 12 million persons, or 29 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, were potentially eligible for the LIS in 2006 and most were eligible for the full subsidy. The eligibility rate is higher for the under-age-65 population and for those in nursing homes. There is considerable uncertainty around the estimated number of LIS eligibles, however, due to differences in the two main data sources employed, the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the Health and Retirement Study.
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 Improving Coverage for Low income Medicare Beneficiaries written by Marilyn Moon and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Minority Aging written by Tamara A. Baker and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The array of topics covered is amazing, making this book a valuable, significant resource for many disciplines...This multidisciplinary review of the literature on minority aging presents the scholarship related to public health and 'social, behavioral, and biological concerns' of aged minorities like no other publication. Graduate students will certainly be well-served by this book, as would faculty teaching aging at both undergraduate and graduate levels...Highly recommended."--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Öwhile practitioners of gerontology, family medicine, and any professional involved in the care of the elderly will find some practical guidance in the second part of the book, it will really earn a place on the bookshelf of anyone and everyone with an interest in US sociology and the development of public policy for the elderly. With the general aging of the population and the book's accentuation of current issues, this outstanding review will become an indispensable tool.Healthy Aging Research This text provides up-to-date, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive information about aging among diverse racial and ethnic populations in the United States. It is the only book to focus on paramount public health issues as they relate to older minority Americans, and addresses social, behavioral, and biological concerns for this population. The text distills the most important advances in the science of minority aging and incorporates the evidence of scholars in gerontology, anthropology, psychology, public health, sociology, social work, biology, medicine, and nursing. Additionally, the book incorporates the work of both established and emerging scholars to provide the broadest possible knowledge base on the needs of and concerns for this rapidly growing population. Chapters focus on subject areas that are recognized as being critical in understanding the well being of minority elders. These include sociology (Medicare, SES, work and retirement, social networks, context/neighborhood, ethnography, gender, demographics), psychology (cognition, stress, mental health, personality, sexuality, religion, neuroscience, discrimination), medicine/nursing/public health (mortality and morbidity, disability, health disparities, long-term care, genetics, dietary issues, health interventions, physical functioning), social work (caregiving, housing, social services, end-of-life care), and many other topics. The book focuses on the needs of four major ethnic groups: Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, African American, and Native American. Key Features: Provides current, comprehensive information about minority aging through a multidisciplinary lens Integrates information from scholars in gerontology, anthropology, psychology, public health, sociology, social work, biology, medicine, and nursing Emphasizes the principal public health issues concerning minority elders Offers "one-stop shopping" regarding the development of a substantial knowledge base about minority aging Includes recent progressive research pertaining to the social, cultural, psychological and health needs of elderly minority adults in the US
