Report

This Issue Brief provides estimates of Medicare Parts A, B, and D savings from the Affordable Care Act to seniors and people living with disabilities enrolled in traditional Medicare.

The Affordable Care Act identified ten categories of services and items included in essential health benefits (EHBs). All ten categories of services and items must be covered by insurance offered in the individual and small group markets as of January 1, 2014.

This report examines the variation in Medigap premiums, recent trends in premium growth and policies that experience relatively high premium growth. The report also compares the premium growth over different segments of the entire time period studied, and to changes in enrollment in both Medigap policies and the Medicare Advantage Program. [38 PDF pages]

Results released December 14, 2011, by the National Center for Health Statistics demonstrate that the extension of dependent coverage up to age 26 has increased the number of young adults with health insurance, by even more than prior analyses had suggested.

Under the Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014, Americans cannot be denied coverage, be charged significantly higher premiums, be subjected to an extended waiting period, or have their benefits curtailed by insurance companies because of some type of pre-existing health condition.

New results released September 21, 2011, by the National Center for Health Statistics show that the dependent-coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act has had a significant impact on improving insurance coverage among young adults.

Report Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

This report provides an overview of Long-Term Care Registered Apprenticeship Programs (LTC RAPs) based on existing administrative data from U.S. Department of Labor. The purpose of this initial review is to support the design of a potential future evaluation of the effects of LTC RAPs on apprentices and the program sponsors that administer or operate them.

This report is intended to describe sources of payment for behavioral health providers and types of payments (methods, units, adjustments and updates) made to inpatient, outpatient, independent practitioners, and other providers of behavioral health services. A significant focus of this report describes these same factors in terms of Medicare and Medicaid spending. [209 PDF pages]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Congressional Report on the Feasibility of Establishing a Uniform National Database on Elder Abuse March 2010 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2010/elderCR.pdf (62 PDF pages)