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Explaining the State Integrated Care and Financial Alignment Demonstrations for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries
This paper provides an overview of the joint efforts of states and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop more integrated ways of paying for and delivering health care to the 9 million people who are eligible for both the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Dual eligible beneficiaries…
Issue Brief Read More Federal Core Requirements And State Options In Medicaid: Current Policies And Key Issues
Medicaid is a jointly financed partnership between the federal government and states. The federal-state financing and administrative structure of Medicaid provides a framework of federal core requirements along with broad state options for program design and administration. This issue brief presents an overview of the current Medicaid program framework, with…
Fact Sheet Read More The New Medicare Drug Benefit: Potential Effects of Pharmacy Management Tools on Access to Medications
The New Medicare Drug Benefit: Potential Effects of Pharmacy Management Tools on Access to MedicationsThis report describes the pharmacy benefit management tools that will be available to private plans administering the new Medicare drug benefit, including formularies, the definition of categories and classes, and cost sharing requirements. The authors conclude…
Issue Brief Read More Chartpack: Selected Findings on Seniors’ Views of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Chartpack: Selected Findings on Seniors’ Views of the Medicare Prescription Drug BenefitThese charts highlight key data from the February 2006 tracking poll on seniors’ views toward the new Medicare drug benefit.Chartpack (.pdf)
Poll Finding Read More Medicare Part D 2010 Data Spotlight: Coverage of Top Brand-Name and Specialty Drugs
This Part D Data Spotlight documents the wide variations across the private stand-alone drug plans with respect to coverage of drugs, what enrollees pay for those drugs, and restrictions and limitations placed on their use. These variations have potentially significant implications for beneficiaries’ access to medications and out-of-pocket costs. The…
Issue Brief Read More Briefing, Survey Examine 2012 Data From 50-State Survey of Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility and Enrollment Policies
Despite continued tight state budgets, a requirement in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that states maintain eligibility in Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs was central in preserving coverage during 2011. In addition, more than half of states (29) made improvements in their programs, often using technology to increase program…
Event Read More Medicare Beneficiaries and Their Assets: Implications for Low-Income Programs
This report, prepared by Marilyn Moon of The Urban Institute and Robert Friedland and Lee Shirey of Georgetown University's Center on an Aging Society, reviews the income and assets of the current Medicare population, provides an overview of asset tests used to determine eligibility for programs assisting low-income Medicare beneficiaries,…
Report Read More Medicare+Choice in California: Lessons and Insights
Thirty-five percent of all California Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in a M+C plan, far in excess of the 14 percent rate nationwide. This report seeks to identify what lessons for the nation can be drawn from the California M+C experience, as Congress debates the implications of major withdrawals from the…
Report Read More Medicare Beneficiaries: A Population At Risk – Findings from the Kaiser/Commonwealth 1997 Survey of Medicare Beneficiaries – Report
Medicare Beneficiaries: A Population at RiskFindings from the Kaiser/Commonwealth Fund 1997 Survey of Medicare BeneficiariesCathy Schoen, Patricia Neuman, Michelle Kitchman, Karen Davis, and Diane RowlandDecember 1998Table Of ContentsExecutive SummaryFindings from the Kaiser/Commonwealth 1997 Survey of Medicare BeneficiariesMedicare Beneficiaries: Health Status and IncomeHealth Insurance CoverageSatisfaction, Access, and Financial Burden: Variations by…
Report Read More Issues for Medicare Beneficiaries in Long-Term Care Facilities: An Analysis of the MMA and Proposed Regulations
This paper, by Vicki Gottlich, J.D., of the Center for Medicare Advocacy, looks at issues related to the new Medicare prescription drug benefit for people with Medicare who live in nursing homes or other long-term-care settings. It is one in a series commissioned by the Kaiser Family Foundation that analyzes…
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