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Source Intermediate projections from 2005-2018 annual Reports of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds…
In a Health Affairs blog post, Jen Kates and Adam Wexler of the Kaiser Family Foundation and Nafis Sadat and Joseph Dieleman of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation assess what cuts to
On September 7, 2017, the Senate Committee on Appropriations approved both the FY 2018 State & Foreign Operations (SFOPs) and the FY 2018 Labor, Health & Human Services (LHHS) appropriations bills.
This budget analysis reviews U.S. funding for global health programs in the FY15 Omnibus Appropriations bill, signed into law by the President on December 16, 2014.
Dual Eligible Beneficiaries as a Percent of Medicare and Medicaid Enrollment and Spending, 2008 Download Source Medicare spending and enrollment estimates from Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the 2008 CMS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Cost and Use File; Medicaid spending and enrollment estimates from Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Urban Institute analysis…
Medicaid Costs are Shared by the States and the Federal Government Download Source SOURCE: Federal Register, January 21, 2014 (Vol. 79, No. 13), pp 3385-3388, at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-01-21/pdf/2014-00931.pdf.
Medicaid is an Expenditure Item and a Revenue Item in State Budgets Download Source SOURCE: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured estimates based on the NASBO’s November 2013 State Expenditure Report (data for Actual FY 2012.
This budget analysis reviews U.S. funding for global health programs included in the fiscal year 2014 omnibus appropriations bill signed into law on January 17, 2014. It examines funding by program area as well as trends over time.
Beginning January 2013, Medicare spending will be subject to automatic, across-the-board reductions, known as “sequestration,” which is slated to reduce Medicare payments to plans and providers by up to 2 percent.
This brief commissioned by the Foundation considers areas where Medicare faces limited opportunity for market-based competition and price negotiation to drive down drug spending.
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