The Role of National Firms in Medicare+Choice
This report addresses national managed care firms participation in M+C and the factors influencing their decision processes about M+C products.
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Welfare Reform and Elderly Legal Immigrants
ReportThis report presents the findings of researchers at the National Academy on Aging on welfare reform and elderly legal imigrants. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Actof 1996 included an array of structural reforms affecting access to cash assistance programs such as AFDC and SSI as well as Medicaid.
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Selected Findings on the New Medicare Prescription Drug Law
ReportThis chartpack includes recent survey results on the Medicare prescription drug law and seniors' use of the Internet. Chartpack (.
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Visualizing Income and Assets Among Medicare Beneficiaries: Now and in the Future
InteractiveThis interactive tool describes the income, savings and home equity of people on Medicare in 2013, and in 2030. It allows users to break out the data by age, gender, race/ethnicity, marital status and education level, providing insight into the disparities within and across categories of beneficiaries.
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Measuring Long-Term Services and Supports Rebalancing
Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides a brief overview of quality measures related to long-term services and supports rebalancing.
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Medicare Spending Peaks at Age 96
From Drew AltmanIn this column for The Wall Street Journal's Think Tank, Drew Altman discusses the implications of a Kaiser finding: per capita Medicare spending peaks at age 96, and the main reason is not end-of-life care.
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How Much (More) Will Seniors Pay for a Doc Fix?
PerspectiveIn this Policy Insight, the Foundation’s Cristina Boccuti and Tricia Neuman examine how Congress’ effort to permanently stave off scheduled cuts in Medicare’s physician payments could affect what Medicare beneficiaries pay for their care -- both in premiums and in other potential changes -- to offset the cost of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) “doc fix.”
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States Adopted Changes to Expand Medicaid Eligibility and Streamline Renewal Processes That Will Continue Beyond the Unwinding, Though Challenges Remain
News ReleaseThe unwinding of pandemic enrollment protections in Medicaid helped accelerate states’ expansion of eligibility for key groups and adoption of policy and system changes to streamline renewal processes for enrollees, according to findings from a new KFF survey of state Medicaid officials.
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Medicare Part D Issue Briefs
Issue BriefThese issue briefs, prepared by the Centers for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., provide information about how the Medicare drug benefit will affect beneficiaries. The briefs address issues related to dual eligibles, residents of nursing home and assisted living facilities, and the Part D exceptions and appeals processes.
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Few Nursing Facility Residents and Staff Have Received the Latest COVID-19 Vaccine
Issue BriefKFF analysis found that over one-fifth of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths occurred in long-term care facilities despite but as of January 14th, 2024, only 38% of residents and 15% of staff were “up-to-date” with their COVID-19 vaccines, which the CDC defines as having received the updated Fall 2023 vaccine. Those rates are lower than uptake was for the 2022 vaccine.