Issues In Designing A Prescription Drug Benefit For Medicare
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language : en
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Release Date : 2002
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Author : Congressional Budget Congressional Budget Office
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-11-15
Issues In Designing A Prescription Drug Benefit For Medicare written by Congressional Budget Congressional Budget Office and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-15 with categories.
One of lawmakers' highest health-related priorities is adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. Although that program gives older Americans broad insurance coverage for many health needs, it provides only limited coverage of drugs not dispensed during a hospital stay. That gap in coverage has become increasingly significant as prescription drugs have assumed greater importance in the treatment of disease and as spending for outpatient prescription drugs has soared. Designing a Medicare drug benefit is a complex task, however. The competing goals for such a benefit mean that policymakers must make trade-offs (such as between broad coverage or widespread enrollment and cost). They must consider many different design elements and how those elements might interact. And they must try to avoid various problems that arise in creating such a benefit. Ultimately, the choices that designers make will affect not only the cost of the benefit but a host of other factors, such as demand for and prices of prescription drugs, spending by other federal and state programs, and how various parts of the market for health insurance operate. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has had to wrestle with those issues in recent years to produce cost estimates of the various Medicare drug proposals debated in the Congress. This study summarizes the main design choices facing policymakers and explores the implications of those choices for cost and coverage. To illustrate the effect of those choices on cost, it also discusses CBO's cost estimates for four proposals that represent a broad array of designs for a Medicare drug benefit. For the sake of simplicity, this study focuses on a standalone drug benefit-one that would be a freestanding addition to Medicare rather than part of a broad effort to restructure the program. Broad reform proposals raise important policy issues but ones that are beyond the scope of this analysis.
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Author : Joseph Antos
language : en
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Release Date : 2002-11
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Medicare offers broad insurance protection for many health needs of the nation's elderly & disabled residents, but it provides no coverage for the costs of most outpatient prescription drugs (PD). As spending for those PD has soared in recent years, adding a PD benefit to Medicare has become a top health issue for lawmakers. This study discusses an approach to estimating the costs of various designs for a Medicare PD benefit. Describes the broad choices available to policymakers, some problems raised by particular design choices, & the implications of those choices for the cost of four specific proposals, which together cover a wide spectrum of approaches for delivering a Medicare PD benefit. Charts & tables.
Designing A Twenty First Century Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health
language : en
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Release Date : 2003
Designing A Twenty First Century Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Medical categories.
Medicare
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Author : Leslie G. Aronovitz (au)
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2006-08
Medicare written by Leslie G. Aronovitz (au) and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08 with Business & Economics categories.
On Jan. 1, 2006, Medicare began providing coverage for outpatient prescription drugs through its new Part D benefit. Beneficiaries who enroll in Part D may choose a drug plan from those offered by private plan sponsors under contract to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Serv. (CMS), which administers the Part D benefit. Beneficiaries have until May 15, 2006, to enroll in the Part D benefit & select a plan without the risk of penalties. This report reviews the quality of CMS's commun. on the Part D benefit. This report: examined 70 CMS publications to select 6 documents to review & evaluate the clarity of these texts; made 500 calls to the 1-800-MEDICARE help line; & evaluated the usability of the Medicare Web site. Illus.
Medicare Part D
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health
language : en
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Release Date : 2006
Medicare Part D written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Medical categories.
A Medicare Prescription Drug Safety Net
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
A Medicare Prescription Drug Safety Net written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Electronic government information categories.
Implementation Of The Medicare Drug Benefit
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
language : en
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Release Date : 2007
Implementation Of The Medicare Drug Benefit written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
Making Medicines Affordable
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2018-03-01
Making Medicines Affordable written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-01 with Medical categories.
Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.