The steamroller heads for medicosts
Tags: MEDICAID -- Law & legislation; MEDICARE -- Law & legislation
Related Articles
- Clearing political hurdles. // AHA News;6/17/2002, Vol. 38 Issue 23, p4
Editorial. Focuses on the legislative process for Medicare and Medicaid payments being considered by the U.S. Senate and Congress in 2002. Response of medical care professionals to the plan to reduce Medicare payment; Benefits from a Medicare prescription drug bill; Hurdles to the passage of a...
- Congress takes first steps toward Medicare, Medicaid agreement. Cassil, Alwyn // AHA News;05/19/97, Vol. 33 Issue 19, p1
Reports on the status of the Medicare and Medicaid budget resolution legislation in the US Congress as of May 19, 1997. Proposal to reduce the rate of Medicare spending by $155 billion over five years; Extension of the solvency of the hospital trust fund until at least 2002; Provision of more...
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliaton Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-508). // Health Care Financing Review;Winter91, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p115
Presents information about House Resolution 5835, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. Summaries of the Medicare and Medicaid provisions.
- Clinton, Congress set to begin budget negotiations. Gardner, Jonathan // Modern Healthcare;11/27/95, Vol. 25 Issue 48, p3
Reports that the White house and congressional leaders are expected to enter into intense negotiations for budget legislation, setting the stage for the end game in the Republican party's effort to slash Medicare and Medicaid spending. Legislation which seeks to reduce Medicare by $270 billion...
- Medicare, Medicaid rules tighten. Kertesz, Louise // Crain's Detroit Business;5/6/96, Vol. 12 Issue 19, p37
Focuses on the effects of the Health Care Financing Administration's rules which governors physician-incentive plans, on Medicare and Medicaid. Impact of the rules on health providers; Requirement of health maintenance organization under the rules; Aim of the rules; Information on the rules;...
- Medicare protected, for now. // H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks;3/20/95, Vol. 69 Issue 6, p17
Reports on the failure of Senate Republicans to garner enough votes to pass the balanced-budget amendment that would reduce spending for Medicare and Medicaid.
- Senate, House differ on Medicare cuts; conference committee work on budget to begin mid-July. // H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks;7/5/93, Vol. 67 Issue 13, p9
Reports on the Senate Finance Committee's approval of a budget reconciliation package that contains spending reductions for Medicare and Medicaid. House of Representatives' proposed Medicare cuts; Reduction of Medicare Part A and B payments; Conference committee work with the US House of...
- What entitlement program cuts could mean. Hash, Michael // Healthcare Executive;Sep/Oct1995, Vol. 10 Issue 5, p46
Assesses the impact of the budget cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. United States President Bill Clinton's proposal of a balanced-budget plan with cuts in Medicare and Medicaid; Stronger incentives for beneficiaries to join managed care plans as key to bring Medicare in line with the private...
- Get heard back home...and on Capitol Hill. // AHA News;9/23/2002, Vol. 38 Issue 37, p4
Editorial. Discusses ways of urging the U.S. Senate to approve a legislation to increase Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals. Significance of the legislation to hospitals; Efforts to urge reduction in Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments.
