Medicare Technical Panel Meetings

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Meeting 6 May 2 and May 3

• Federal Register Notice
• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Minutes May 2
• Meeting Minutes May 3
• Meeting Materials

Meeting 5 February 7 and February 8

• Federal Register Notice
• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Minutes Feb. 7
• Meeting Minutes Feb. 8
• Meeting Materials
• Recommendation regarding the “illustrative alternative”
• Recommendations Regarding Medicare Spending and Marginal Tax Rates
• Finding on Transition from Short-Range to Long-Range Projections
• Findings and Rrecommendations Relating to the Age-Sex Distribution of Spending
• Medicare Advantage to Traditional Medicare Spillovers
• From Mark Pauly
• Medicare Relative Fee Levels and Access to Care
• Medicare Trustees Report Technical Advisory Panel
• Responses to Technical Panel Questions on Contribution of Demorgraphic Change to Spending Growth
• Part D Assumption Update

Meeting 4 December 19 and December 20

• Federal Register Notice
• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Minutes Dec. 19
• Meeting Minutes Dec. 20
• Meeting Materials
• Perspective on Prescription Drug Costs
• Recommendation regarding the “illustrative alternative”
• Potential for Demand to Slow Spending Growth
• Age distribution of spending
• Focusing on presentation of uncertainty
• Comments on Productivity
• Estimating the Contribution of Demographic Change to Medicare Spending based on Age, Sex, and Time-To-Death
• Medicare technical panel Overview
• Illustrating the Effects of Changes in Medicare FFS Fee Levels Relative to Private Fees on Access for Medicare Beneficiaries
• Presenting the Time Path of Medicare Tax Burden
• Sustainability—illustrative alternative
• Part D Program Assumptions
• Medicare Advantage to Traditional Medicare Spillovers: Further Considerations

Meeting 3 October 31 and November 1

• Federal Register Notice
• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Minutes Oct.31
• Meeting Minutes Nov. 1
• Meeting Materials
• Long-term rate of growth, the sustainability of key Medicare cost growth factors under current law, focusing on the role of alternative projection post-SGR
• The Transition of Short Term to Long Range Projections
• Drug Forecasts
• Future changes in utilization of care: Extent of spillover effects between Medicare Advantage (MA) and Traditional FFS Medicare (TM); have spillover effects been realized or is there room for increased effects?
• What is the potential for cascading changes in intensity of service provision (e.g. inpatient to outpatient)?
• Summary of the 2010 Technical Review Panel Findings and Recommendations
• What are the changes in spending by age and sex over time and how do these changes need to be incorporated into the long range projection assumptions?
• Future changes in utilization of care—What are the trends in end-of-life care (settings) and costs (net change in resource intensity across all settings)?
• How best to reflect uncertainty and a range of alternatives?
• Mark Miller, MEDPAC, comments on the Medicare-Trustees Report
• Forecasting Trends in Physician Fees and Incomes and Effects on Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries In Traditional Medicare

Meeting 2 September 30

• Federal Register Notice
• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Materials
• HI Projections
• MA to TM Spillovers and our Priority Areas
• Medicare Short-Range Projections
• Part B Projections
• Part D Short-Range Projections
• Private Health Plans - Medicare Part C Baseline

Meeting 1 August 30 and August 31

• Federal Register Notice
• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Materials
• Factors Contributing to Growth Model
• Medicare Alternative I (low-cost) and Alternative III (high-cost) Projections
• Medicare Low-Cost and HighCost Projections
• Medicare TR Discussion of the Sustainability of Current Law, and the Alternative Law Projections
• Medicare Long-Run Current-Law Sustainability Issues
• NHE Shares by Service
• Shifting of Medicare Services
• Medicare Spending Projections: Transition from Short-Run to Long-Run