Medicare Chartbook, 2010
This chartbook provides the most recent and reliable data available about the Medicare program and the 47 million seniors and younger people with disabilities who get health insurance coverage through the program.
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Medicare Advantage 2011 Data Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums
ReportThis Medicare Advantage Data Spotlight provides an overview of recent changes made to the Medicare Advantage program and examines trends in plan participation, premiums and certain benefits.
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Medicare Part D Spotlight: Part D Plan Availability in 2011 and Key Changes Since 2006
ReportThis initial analysis examines the private stand-alone Part D drug plans will be available to Medicare beneficiaries in 2011 and provides an early look at key trends in the options, premiums, and other plan characteristics.
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The Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy Program: Experience to Date and Policy Issues for Consideration
Issue BriefThis policy brief examines the low-income subsidy program that provides premiums and cost-sharing assistance under Part D plans, documenting trends in both beneficiary and plan participation over time.
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Medicare Part D 2010 Data Spotlight: Coverage of Top Brand-Name and Specialty Drugs
Issue BriefThis 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.
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Medicare Part D 2010 Data Spotlights
Issue BriefThe Kaiser Family Foundation has issued a collection of analyses related to the Part D Medicare stand-alone drug plan options available to seniors for calendar year 2010.
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Medicare Prescription Drug Plans In 2010 and Key Changes Over Five Years
Issue BriefThis brief summarizes key findings from the full collection of 2010 Part D Data Spotlights examining key trends in the private stand-alone drug plans available to Medicare beneficiaries. The spotlight is one in a series analyzing key aspects of the Medicare Part D drug plans that will be available to beneficiaries in 2010.
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Summary of Key Changes to Medicare in 2010 Health Reform Law
Issue BriefSummary of Key Changes to Medicare in 2010 Health Reform Law . This brief provides a detailed look at the improvements in Medicare benefits, changes to payments for providers and Medicare Advantage plans, various demonstration projects and other Medicare provisions in the law. It includes a timeline of key dates for implementing the Medicare-related provisions in the law.
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Explaining Health Reform: Medicare and the New Independent Payment Advisory Board
Issue BriefThis brief describes how the new board created under the 2010 health reform law is expected to limit the growth in Medicare spending over time.
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Explaining Health Care Reform: Key Changes to the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit Coverage Gap
Issue BriefOn March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law.