Medicare

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

This paper is the third in a series on SNPs and their relationship to Medicaid. In the second paper of the series, we identified all states which had some kind of contractual relationship with SNPs prior to MIPPA, and classified those relationships into broad categories.

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Tto understand better the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) mandate for state Special Needs Plans (SNPs) contracting, it is important to understand the current status SNP contracting with state Medicaid agencies for their dually eligible members.

This mostly qualitative study identified key usability and utility components of a personal health record (PHR) being used by an elderly population living in South Carolina.