Medicare

This is a supplemental report to the final report of a study jointly funded by ONDCP and ASPE (Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending: Findings Report). This technical report provides more detail on the methods used to make estimates, and it also describes how MPR would make similar estimates of Medicare funding for substance abuse treatment, if requested to do so. [29 PDF pages]

This report 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.

By: Robert Mechanic, MBA, Jennifer Perloff Phd, Darren Zinner Phd, Moaven Razavi Phd, Michael J. Keane Dr. P.H

Por: Ashley Henderson, Wilma Robinson, y Kenneth Finegold, ASPE

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.

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]

The report contains the results of actuarial and policy analyses of the CLASS Act and the legal analysis of various benefit plan options. This report contains important findings that will help advance the cause of charting a path to affordable and sustainable long-term care options. [48 PDF pages]

  ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF The Value of Health Insurance: Few of the Uninsured Have Adequate Resources to Pay Potential Hospital Bills May 2011