The Alliance For Health Reform: Medicare

The following is a list of briefings, documents, and publications that have been ranked by the Alliance for Health Reform in order of relevance, 10 being "Exclusively Related" to the issue, to 5 being "Somewhat Related" to the issue. Webcasts, transcripts and resource materials can be downloaded for each briefing listed.
Rank	Type	Description
10	Briefing	What's in There? The New Health Reform Law and Medicare, 5/7/2010 This briefing, another in in our series on what’s in the new health reform law, dealt exclusively with how the reform law affects Medicare. Sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
10	Briefing	Medicare Advantage: Lessons for the Future, 5/4/2009 The Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation sponsored a luncheon briefing on the basics of the Medicare Advantage program. Speakers included: Jonathan Blum, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Marsha Gold, Mathematica Policy Research; and Mark Miller, MedPAC. Ed Howard of the Alliance and Tricia Neuman of the Foundation were co-moderators.
10	Briefing	Medicare 101, 3/16/2009 Medicare covers nearly 45 million beneficiaries, including 38 million seniors and 7 million younger adults with permanent disabilities. The program is expected to cost the federal government approximately $477 billion in 2009, accounting for 13 percent of federal spending and 19 percent of total national health expenditures. Whom does Medicare serve and what services does it cover? What are Medicare Parts A, B, C and D? How is it structured and financed? What drives Medicare’s costs? How does Medicare reimburse providers and hospitals? What future challenges face the program? To address these and related questions, the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation sponsored a March 16 briefing.
10	Briefing	Using Medicare as Part of Coverage Expansion?, 6/6/2008 A new proposal by The Commonwealth Fund suggests, as a major component of moving toward coverage for all, a Medicare-like program that uninsured adults below the age of 65 could purchase voluntarily. This briefing, co-sponsored by the Fund, featured speakers both favoring and skeptical about this approach.
10	Briefing	Medicare Advantage: Whose Cost, Whose Benefit?, 7/16/2007 The portion of Medicare enrollees in Medicare Advantage plans is on the upswing, now estimated at 19 percent of beneficiaries. By 2016, more than one in four beneficiaries may be covered by a Medicare Advantage plan. This briefing covered the costs and benefits of the Medicare Advantage program, and implications of overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans. Among questions discussed: Are the per-beneficiary overpayments (compared to traditional Medicare) worth it? What would happen if these payments were cut? Should the Medicare Advantage program continue to exist at all? Cosponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
10	Briefing	Medicare 101: What You Really Need to Know, 4/20/2007 Medicare covers nearly 44 million beneficiaries who are elderly, including 37 million seniors and 7 million younger adults with permanent disabilities, and end stage renal disease. The program cost the federal government approximately $375 billion in 2006, accounting for 13 percent of federal spending.
10	Briefing	BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: Medicare's Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities, 1/29/2007 A growing body of evidence shows disparities in quality of care among Medicare beneficiaries of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. These disparities are particularly noteworthy in Medicare, which provides nearly universal access to care to the elderly without regard to race or ethnicity.
10	Briefing	Medicare Advantage: Early Views and Trendspotting, 5/19/2006 The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 made a number of changes to the Medicare managed care program – Medicare Advantage. Among the aims: Keep managed care plans from leaving the program by offering higher payments, and give beneficiaries more reasons to consider joining. Is the Medicare Advantage program now growing again after a period of declining enrollment? Are additional changes to payments for Medicare managed care plans warranted?
10	Briefing	Making Sense of Medicare's Drug Benefit: Information and Resources to Help Beneficiaries, 11/7/2005 To help understand the basics of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, the nonpartisan Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation held a briefing especially for congressional staff, including district and state staff, but also of interest to others. Panelists were Tricia Neuman of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Medicare Policy Project; Jack Vogelsong of Pennsylvania’s State Health Insurance and Assistance Program; Beatrice Disman of the New York Region of the Social Security Administration; and Julie Goon of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
10	Briefing	MEDICARE BASICS, From (PART) A to D, 5/16/2005 Medicare covers nearly 42 million beneficiaries who are elderly, or have a disability or end stage renal disease. Spending on Medicare benefits accounted for 17 percent of the nation’s total health care spending in 2004. The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 made many changes to the program including the addition of a prescription drug benefit (“Part D”), which will begin full implementation in 2006. Whom does Medicare serve and what services does it provide? How is the program financed? What are the basics of the new Medicare drug benefit? To help answer these questions and more, the nonpartisan Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation held a May 16 luncheon briefing for those new to the topic of Medicare and those who wanted to refresh their knowledge.
10	Briefing	How Good is the Quality of Care in Medicare? , 5/6/2005 The federal government’s responsibility to provide access to health care for the nation’s 41 million Medicare beneficiaries implies another obligation: to spend taxpayer dollars wisely. This means assuring that the $250 billion+ spent for Medicare goes for services that are safe, timely and effective. How well is the Medicare program meeting these goals? Why is there an inverse relationship between how much is spent per Medicare beneficiaries across the states and the quality of care rankings for those states? Why are there unexplained variations in care at the end of life? What is the relationship between staffing levels and quality? What should be done to boost the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries while assuring the most effective use of resouces?
10	Briefing Transcript	Transcript, 5/24/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 122 kb)
10	Document	Tricia Neuman Presentation, 5/7/2010 (PowerPoint: 742 kb)
10	Document	Tom Ault Presentation, 5/7/2010 (PowerPoint: 673 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	Transcript, 5/7/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 141 kb)
10	Document	Selected Experts, 5/4/2009 (Word Document: 44 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	Medicare Advantage: Lessons for the Future, 5/4/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 140 kb)
10	Document	Moon Presentation, 3/16/2009 (PowerPoint: 880 kb)
10	Document	Cubanski Presentation, 3/16/2009 (PowerPoint: 4,057 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	Medicare 101, 3/16/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 167 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	Medicare 101: What You Really Need to Know, 4/20/2007 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 172 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	Transcript: Bridging the Divide: Medicare's Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities, 1/29/2007 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 209 kb)
10	Toolkit	Toolkit: Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans, 7/13/2007 Over the past three years, enrollment in Medicare private fee-for-service (PFFS) plans has increased significantly. These plans offer a potentially greater choice of providers than beneficiaries will find in Medicare HMOs or PPOs. They often provide extra benefits not found in traditional Medicare. Beneficiaries attracted to the plans hope to lower their out-of-pocket costs compared to what they would pay in traditional Medicare. However, the plans have drawn the interest of federal budget cutters since they cost more per beneficiary than traditional Medicare. Moreover, beneficiaries have been reporting confusion about the plans and sometimes, enrollment fraud. Some private fee-for-service beneficiaries have been denied services by physicians who previously accepted their traditional Medicare coverage. This toolkit, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, contains resources that describe the basics of PFFS plans, advantages and incentives included in the plans, and the challenges that PFFS enrollees have encountered along the way. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 51 kb)
10	Other Publication	La Cobertura de Temas de Salud, 10/1/2004 Written with journalists in mind, this 220-page book in Spanish is useful to anyone interested in health policy issues. Each chapter includes key facts, story ideas, expert sources and helpful websites. The book also includes a glossary of terms related to health coverage. (Other: 11 kb)
10	Other Publication	Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 5: Medicare, 9/1/2004 This chapter from the Alliance sourcebook, “Covering Health Issues, 2004” presents key facts, background, story ideas, experts and websites on the subject of Medicare. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 197 kb)
10	Offsite Document	Covering Health Issues, 5th Edition -- Updated, 6/1/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Unknown File Type)
10	Offsite Document	Medicare a Primer, 4/1/2010 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	Health Reform's Changes in Medicare, 5/20/2010 - Source: Health Affairs and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Unknown File Type)
10	Offsite Document	Summary of Key Changes to Medicare in 2010 Health Reform Law, 4/1/2010 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	Major Medicare Savings Under Health Reform Legislation, 4/7/2010 - Source: American Medical Association Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid, 4/28/2008 - Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Unknown File Type)
10	Offsite Document	Congress Delivers Help to People with Medicare: An Overview of the Medicare Improvements, 10/15/2008 - Source: Families USA Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	Quality of Health Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: A Chartbook, 5/15/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
10	Offsite Document	Medicare Enrollees: 1990 to 2007, 7/1/2008 - Source: U.S. Census Bureau Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	Fact Sheet: Medicare Two Year Waiting Period for People with Disabilities, 9/15/2008 - Source: Medicare Rights Center Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	The Medicare Beneficiary Population, 1/15/2009 - Source: AARP Public Policy Institute Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	Racial Trends in the Use of Major Procedures among the Elderly, 8/18/2005 - Source: NEJM Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program , 6/15/2008 - Source: MedPAC Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 4/1/2009 - Source: MedPAC Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	Medicare -- Chapter 7 of Covering Health Issues, 4/9/2009 - Source: Allliance for Health Reform Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	Medicare: A Primer, 1/1/2009 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
10	Offsite Document	Medicare At A Glance, 11/15/2008 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
10	Offsite Document	Financing Medicare: An Issue Brief, 1/15/2008 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Briefing	Pathways to Payment Innovation in a Post-Health Reform Era, 5/10/2010 This briefing explored the major provider payment initiatives in the new health reform law. Topics discussed included demonstration projects included in the law, the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and the real-world practicalities involved in changing the way providers are paid. Cosponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, a philanthropy based in New York City and Washington, DC.
9	Briefing	Health Legislation 2007-2008: What's Possible?, 12/13/2006 Suddenly, Capitol Hill is talking about health issues again. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises that Democrats will roll back the prohibition against the federal government negotiating drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. (A Kaiser Family Foundation poll released today found broad bipartisan support for this idea.) Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says one of his three top priorities will be more funding for stem cell research. Others want to revisit the importation of prescription drugs from Canada. Additionally, the 110th Congress will consider whether to continue the State Children’s Health Insurance Program in its present form.
9	Briefing	Helping the Medicare Savings Programs Get Savings to Seniors, 6/12/2006 The Medicare Savings Programs provide assistance with premiums — and in some instances, cost sharing requirements — to Medicare beneficiaries of limited income and resources who do not qualify for full Medicaid benefits. What lessons does Part D enrollment offer that could apply to the savings programs? What techniques are working well for the savings programs that could apply to Part D enrollment? How could newly released recommendations from The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) improve the Medicare savings programs if implemented? How feasible are these recommendations?
9	Briefing	Implementing the Medicare Drug Benefit: The Stories Ahead, 9/27/2005 Medicare beneficiaries can start signing up for prescription drug plans on November 15. Already, health plans have announced that they will be spending up to $80 million each to promote their offerings. The federal government and nonprofit groups are well into a massive effort to educate the public. But beneficiaries and those they rely on still have many questions about the program. The Alliance for Health Reform sponsored a briefing on Sept. 27 to help reporters with their coverage of the new benefit's implementation and offer story ideas.
9	Document	Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 3/23/2010 - Source: CRS Summary: Medicare Related Excerpts (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 69 kb)
9	Document	Medicare Advantage: Lessons for the Future, 5/4/2009 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 54 kb)
9	Document	Marsha Gold Presentation, 5/4/2009 (PowerPoint: 790 kb)
9	Document	Mark Miller Presentation, 5/4/2009 (PowerPoint: 436 kb)
9	Document	Medicare 101, 3/16/2009 (Word Document: 37 kb)
9	Document	Improving the Information That Medicare Provides , 1/1/2009 - Source: American Institutes for Research (Word Document: 48 kb)
9	Document	Medicare Advantage Plan Availability, Premiums and Benefits, and Beneficiary Enrollment in 2007, 10/1/2008 - Source: RTI International/ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,365 kb)
9	Document	Rep. Tom Price Presentation, 6/6/2008 - Source: PowerPoint Presentation (PowerPoint: 755 kb)
9	Document	Cathy Schoen Presentation, 6/6/2008 - Source: PowerPoint Presentation (PowerPoint: 730 kb)
9	Document	Steve Lieberman Presentation, 6/6/2008 - Source: PowerPoint Presentation (PowerPoint: 66 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Medicare as a Building Block for Health Reform, 6/6/2008 - Source: Adobe Acrobat PDF (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 227 kb)
9	Document	Getting Medicare Right: Presentation of William Novelli, 7/11/2007 - Source: Center for American Progress (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 34 kb)
9	Document	The Medicare Advantage Program: Statement of Peter R. Orszag, 6/28/2007 - Source: Testimony Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 673 kb)
9	Document	The Medicare Advantage Program & MedPAC Recommendations: Statement of Mark E. Miller, 6/28/2007 - Source: Testimony Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 280 kb)
9	Document	Medicare Advantage & the Federal Budget: Statement of Mark McClellan, 6/28/2007 - Source: Testimony Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 49 kb)
9	Document	Key Issues and Implications for Beneficiaries - Statement of Patricia Neuman, 6/28/2007 - Source: Testimony before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 92 kb)
9	Document	News Release: MedPAC Releases Report on Medicare Payment Policy, 6/15/2007 - Source: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 233 kb)
9	Document	AGENDA: Medicare 101, 4/20/2007 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 16 kb)
9	Document	Medicare Primer, 3/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,621 kb)
9	Document	Medicare at a Glance, 2/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 209 kb)
9	Document	Low-Income and Minority Beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage Plans, 2/1/2007 - Source: America's Health Insurance Plans (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 205 kb)
9	Document	Medicare At A Glance, 2/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 209 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Transcript: Pay-for-Performance and Medicaid: Moving from the Drawing Board to the Doctor's..., 12/15/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 197 kb)
9	Document	The Medicare Hospice Payment System: A Preliminary Consideration of Potential Refinements, 6/1/2006 - Source: RAND Health (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 129 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Medicare Advantage: Early Views and Trendspotting, 5/19/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 185 kb)
9	Document	Marsha Gold Presentation: What We Know From Analyzing Public Data Files, 5/19/2006 - Source: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 692 kb)
9	Document	Brian Biles Presentation: Medicare Advantage: Are MA Plans a Better Deal?, 5/19/2006 - Source: George Washington University (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 532 kb)
9	Document	Karen Ignagni Presentation: Are Medicare Advantage Plans Meeting Expectations?, 5/19/2006 - Source: America's Health Insurance Plans (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 347 kb)
9	Document	Abby Block Presentation: Medicare Advantage, 5/19/2006 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 152 kb)
9	Document	The Growth of Private Plans in Medicare, 3/1/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 609 kb)
9	Document	Medicare's New Adventure: the Part D Drug Benefit, 3/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 133 kb)
9	Document	Medicare's hospice benefit for Alzheimer's beneficiaries: frequently asked questions, 1/1/2006 - Source: Alzheimer's Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 154 kb)
9	Document	Medicare’s Challenges in Paying Providers, 1/1/2006 - Source: Health Care Financing Review (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,432 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Making Sense of Medicare's Drug Benefit, 11/7/2005 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 208 kb)
9	Document	Tricia Neuman Presentation: The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, 11/7/2005 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 75 kb)
9	Document	Julie Goon Presentation: CMS Information and Resources for the Medicare Drug Benefit, 11/7/2005 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,271 kb)
9	Document	Medicare Advantage Fact Sheet, 9/1/2005 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 133 kb)
9	Document	The Medicare Advantage Program , 6/1/2005 - Source: MedPAC (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 330 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Medicare Basics, From (Part) A to D, 5/16/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 186 kb)
9	Document	Linda Fishman Presentation: Medicare Part C: Just the Basics, 5/16/2005 - Source: CMS Office of Legislation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 65 kb)
9	Document	Tricia Neuman Presentation: Medicare: The Basics, 5/16/2005 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 66 kb)
9	Document	William Scanlon Presentation: Medicare: The Basics, Financing and Payments, 5/16/2005 - Source: Health Policy R&D (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 42 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	How Good is the Quality of Care in Medicare?, 5/6/2005 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 239 kb)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Part D Chartpack, 11/7/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Part D 2008 Data Spotlights, 11/7/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	MEDICARE: A model of special interest legislation, 3/22/2008 - Source: Health Affairs Blog (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	The President’s Medicare Budget: A First Step Toward Entitlement Reform, 2/5/2008 - Source: WebMemo: The Heritage Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Ending the Physician Payment Crisis: Another Reason for Major Medicare Reform, 5/20/2008 - Source: WebMemo: The Heritage Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Saving Medicare, 5/15/2008 - Source: American Enterprise Institute (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare’s Bad News: Is Anyone Listening?, 4/16/2008 - Source: American Enterprise Institute (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Insuring the Near Elderly: The Potential Role for Medicare Buy-in Plans, 1/2/2002 - Source: Urban Institute (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	The Burden of Out-of-Pocket Health Spending among older adults versus younger adults, 9/7/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	The Building Blocks of Health Reform: Achieving Universal Coverage and Health System Savings, 5/13/2008 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Summary of the 2008 Annual Medicare Reports, 4/3/2008 - Source: Social Security Administration (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	A First Look at How Medicare Advantage Benefits and Premiums in Individual Enrollment Plans, 3/25/2009 - Source: AARP (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Low-Income & Minority Beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage Plans, 2006, 9/15/2008 - Source: America's Health Insurance Plans Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	National Survey of Seniors in Medicare Regarding Medicare Advantage and Pay Cuts for Doctors, 6/19/2008 - Source: America's Health Insurance Plans (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Advantage Program Facts and Figures, 2/2/2009 - Source: America's Health Insurance Plans (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Advantage defenders decry proposed cuts, 4/6/2009 - Source: American Medicial News (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	CMS Issues Guidance for Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans for 2010, 3/30/2009 - Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	CMS Announces 2010 Payment Information For Part C Medicare Advantage Plans and Part D, 4/6/2009 - Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Advantage’s Private Fee-for-Services Plans, 10/21/2008 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	MedPAC Backs MA Cuts Relating to Coding Behavior, 3/6/2009 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Congress Delivers Help to People with Medicare, 10/15/2008 - Source: Families USA (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Characteristics, Financial Risks, and Disenrollment Rates of Beneficiaries, 12/15/2008 - Source: Government Accountability Office (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Advantage: Coverage of Benefits and Access to Services, 3/1/2009 - Source: Health Assistance Partnership (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare’s Private Plans: A Report Card on Medicare Advantage, 11/24/2008 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Advantage Plans At A Crossroads- Yet Again, 11/24/2008 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Payment Policy and The Growth of Medicare Advantage, 11/24/2008 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	The Success of Medicare Advantage Plans: What Seniors Should Know, 6/13/2008 - Source: The Heritage Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	The Emerging Role of Group Medicare Private Fee-for Service Plans, 12/4/2008 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Health Policy Brief: Medicare Advantage, 4/29/2009 - Source: Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Advantage Program Payment System, 10/1/2008 - Source: Medicare Payment Advisory Committee Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Report to Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 3/1/2009 - Source: Medicare Payment Advisory Committee Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Obama budget chief firm on Medicare Advantage cuts, 3/10/2009 - Source: San Francisco Chronicle (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	The Medicare Improvements for Patient and Providers Act, 6/24/2008 - Source: Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Website (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	U.S. Reduces Subsidies for Private Medicare, 4/7/2009 - Source: Wall Street Journal (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Advantage in 2008, 6/5/5008 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Primer, 12/2/2008 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Reforming Medicare's Physician Payment System, 2/12/2009 - Source: The New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	MedPAC Approves Recommendations for Payment Updates in 2010, 1/15/2009 - Source: Heart Rhythm Society (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	2008 Actuarial Report: On the Financial Outlook for Medicaid, 10/17/2008 - Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Matters, 2/19/2009 - Source: Center for American Progress (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Reforming Medicare's Physician Payment Scheme, 2/12/2009 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Health Reform at a Glance: Strengthening Medicare, 7/14/2009 - Source: Offices of the Democratic Leadership and House Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Reforming Medicare’s Physician Payment System, 2/12/2009 - Source: The New England Journal of Medicine Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Mission Medicare, 11/1/2009 - Source: Modern Healthcare (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Commission Proposal And MedPAC Data Shape Reform, 9/29/2009 - Source: Kaiser Health News (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Governance And Provider Payment Policy , 10/2/2009 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Health reform law raises GPCIs, 4/9/2010 - Source: AMA Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Major Medicare savings under health reform legislation, 4/7/2010 - Source: AMA Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Quality-Based Payment in the Medicare Advantage Program, 4/29/2010 - Source: Avalere Health (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Advantage prices rise as overhaul plan nears, 2/5/2009 - Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare: Starting Now on the Path to Higher Value, 2/28/2008 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Enhancing Value in Medicare: Demonstrations and other initiatives to improve the program, 2/1/2007 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Not the Model for Reform, 4/15/2008 - Source: TheHill.com (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Democratic Hopefuls Agree on Medicare as Healthcare Model, 1/21/2008 - Source: LA Times (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Clinton, Obama & Edwards Agree on Medicare-style Option, 1/22/2008 - Source: Wall Street Journal Blog (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	HHS Selects 12 Communities for Medicare HER Incentive Project, 6/11/2008 - Source: iHealth Beat (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare's Opportunity to Encourage Innovation in Health Care Delivery, 3/4/2010 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Obama Medical Panel Targets Costs, Sparks a Bipartisan Backlash, 4/17/2010 - Source: Bloomberg Businessweek (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Assessment of the Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D, 4/1/2010 - Source: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	How Can Medicare Lead Delivery System Reform?, 11/13/2009 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Chronic Conditions Account For Rise In Medicare Spending From 1987 To 2006, 2/18/2010 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Explaining Health Care Reform: Questions about Explainer on the Independent Payment Advisory Board, 5/1/2010 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, Focus on Health Reform (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare Coverage Gap Discount Program Beginning in 2011: Revised Part D Sponsor Guidance and Responses to Summary Public Comments on the Draft Guidance. , 5/21/2010 - Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Briefing	Pay-for Performance and Medicare: Moving from the Drawing Board to the Doctor's Office, 12/15/2006 As the nation’s largest payer for health care services, the Medicare program has a major effect on payments to providers. Its ability to align incentives through pay-for-performance will have implications for the health delivery system at large. A recent Institute of Medicine report made recommendations for implementation of “P4P” under Medicare.
8	Briefing	Reviewing Prescription Drug Coverage: Policies and Practices Across Several Health Systems, 6/23/2006 The Medicare prescription drug program offers coverage for prescription drugs through competing private plans, within a framework established by law and through rules established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In contrast, other countries, including Australia, the UK, and Canada, provide similar prescription drug programs, but within different regulatory structures. How do these countries decide which drugs will be approved and included in their prescription drug programs for the elderly and disabled?
8	Briefing	CARING FOR THE ELDERLY: Is There Any Answer to Rising Health Costs?, 9/26/2005 The costs of caring for the elderly have been growing steadily higher. Spending on Medicare benefits accounted for 17 percent of the nation’s total health care spending in 2004. With baby boomers retiring, and Medicare benefits changing, this percentage is expected to grow in the future. How concerned should we really be with rising health care costs, especially costs connected with the care of older people? Will new technologies create efficiencies that will dramatically reduce costs, or will technologies raise demand for care and thus drive cost increases?
8	Document	Cancer and Medicare A Chartbook, 2/1/2009 - Source: Cancer Action Network (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 2,808 kb)
8	Document	Sourcelist, 6/6/2008 (Word Document: 49 kb)
8	Document	Speaker Biographies, 6/6/2008 - Source: Adobe Acrobat PDF (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 85 kb)
8	Document	AGENDA, 12/7/2007 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 47 kb)
8	Document	Nursing Home Quality Twenty Years After the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, 12/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 860 kb)
8	Document	Long-Term Care Services and Supports: The Future Role and Challenges for Medicaid, 11/28/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,507 kb)
8	Document	Testimony of Arvid Muller (Service Employees International Union), 11/15/2007 - Source: Senate Special Committee on Aging (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 430 kb)
8	Document	Testimony of Kerry Weems (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), 11/15/2007 - Source: Senate Special Committee on Aging (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 106 kb)
8	Document	Testimony of David Zimmerman (University of Wisconsin), 11/15/2007 - Source: Senate Special Committee on Aging (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 38 kb)
8	Document	Testimony of Sarah Slocum (Michigan State Long Term Care Ombudsman), 11/15/2007 - Source: Senate Special Committee on Aging (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 28 kb)
8	Document	Statement of Bruce Yarwood (American Health Care Association), 11/15/2007 - Source: House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Health (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 64 kb)
8	Document	And Who Will Take Care of Mom and Dad?, 11/1/2007 - Source: Nursing Homes Magazine (Word Document: 48 kb)
8	Document	Quality Initiatives in Long Term Care - Driving the AHCA/NCAL Agenda, 11/1/2007 - Source: American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 181 kb)
8	Document	Additional Resources, 10/18/2007 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 114 kb)
8	Document	Speaker Biographies, 10/18/2007 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 77 kb)
8	Document	Selected Experts, 10/18/2007 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 96 kb)
8	Document	How to Improve Nursing Homes - One Expert's 30-Year View, 10/1/2007 - Source: Aging Today Magazine (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 46 kb)
8	Document	Nursing Homes: Business as Usual, 9/6/2007 - Source: Consumer Reports (Word Document: 70 kb)
8	Document	Comparing Nursing Home Rules Yields 10 Lessons From 50 States, 8/1/2007 - Source: Aging Today (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 52 kb)
8	Document	Pioneer Network - Fact Sheet, 8/1/2007 - Source: Pioneer Network (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 57 kb)
8	Document	Pioneer Network - Values and Principles, 8/1/2007 - Source: Pioneer Network (Word Document: 31 kb)
8	Document	Orszag - The Medicare Advantage Program, 7/16/2007 (PowerPoint: 1,038 kb)
8	Document	Rowland - Medicare Advantage Overview, 7/16/2007 (PowerPoint: 1,558 kb)
8	Document	Lambrew - Medicare Advantage Choices, 7/16/2007 (PowerPoint: 49 kb)
8	Document	Antos - Medicare Advantage: Restructure Payments for Results, 7/16/2007 (PowerPoint: 223 kb)
8	Document	Speaker Biographies- Medicare Advantage: Whose Cost, Whose Benefit?, 7/12/2007 - Source: The Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 19 kb)
8	Document	Medicare Advantage Fact Sheet, 7/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 349 kb)
8	Document	Testimony of Kathryn Allen (Government Accountability Office), 5/2/2007 - Source: Senate Special Committee on Aging (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 950 kb)
8	Document	Testimony of Mary Ousley (American Health Care Association), 5/2/2007 - Source: Senate Special Committee on Aging (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 103 kb)
8	Document	Testimony of Alice Hedt (NCCNHR), 5/2/2007 - Source: Senate Special Committee on Aging (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 48 kb)
8	Document	Statement for the Record (American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging), 5/2/2007 - Source: Senate Special Committee on Aging (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 215 kb)
8	Document	SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES: Medicare 101, 4/20/2007 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 15 kb)
8	Document	Neuman's Presentation, 4/20/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 52 kb)
8	Document	Ault's Presentation, 4/20/2007 - Source: Health Policy Alternatives (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 209 kb)
8	Document	Tudor's Presentation, 4/20/2007 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 200 kb)
8	Document	The Medicare Advantage Program and MedPAC Recommendations, 4/11/2007 - Source: MedPAC (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 259 kb)
8	Document	Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2007 Trustees Report, 4/1/2007 - Source: National Academy of Social Insurance (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 110 kb)
8	Document	Issue Brief: Private Plans in Medicare - A 2007 Update, 3/14/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
8	Document	Issue Brief: An Examination of Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans, 3/14/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 503 kb)
8	Document	Medicare: A Primer, 3/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,621 kb)
8	Document	Report to Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate , 3/1/2007 - Source: Government Accountability Office (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 2,816 kb)
8	Document	Clancy Presentation: Bridging the Divide: Medicare's Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Dis..., 1/29/2007 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 341 kb)
8	Document	Landers Presentation: Bridging the Divide: Medicare's Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Dis..., 1/29/2007 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 49 kb)
8	Document	Medicare- Glossary, 1/22/2007 - Source: HHS (Word Document: 153 kb)
8	Document	Medicare & You, 1/1/2007 - Source: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 626 kb)
8	Document	Nursing Home Culture Change Regulatory Compliance - Questions & Answers, 12/21/2006 - Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 67 kb)
8	Document	The Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans, 11/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 237 kb)
8	Document	Out of Isolation: A Vision for Long-Term Care in America, 9/1/2006 - Source: National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 303 kb)
8	Document	Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare, 9/1/2006 - Source: IOM (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 128 kb)
8	Document	Medicare Physician Payment: Are We Getting What We Pay For? Testimony , 7/25/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 245 kb)
8	Document	Kathy Kuhmerker Presentation: Increasing Enrollment in the Medicare Savings Program, 6/12/2006 - Source: The Kuhmerker Consulting Group, LLC (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 93 kb)
8	Document	Jack Ebeler Presentation: Improving Medicare Savings Programs, 6/12/2006 - Source: National Academy of Social Insurance (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 8 kb)
8	Briefing Transcript	Helping the Medicare Savings Programs Get Savings to Seniors , 6/12/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 177 kb)
8	Document	Improving the Medicare Savings Programs , 6/1/2006 - Source: National Academy of Social Insurance (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 275 kb)
8	Document	Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program, 6/1/2006 - Source: MedPac (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 5,042 kb)
8	Document	Sourcelist: Medicare Advantage- Early Views and Trendspotting , 5/19/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 36 kb)
8	Document	Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2006 Trustees Report, 5/1/2006 - Source: National Academy of Social Insurance (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 262 kb)
8	Document	Low-Income Assistance Under the Medicare Drug Benefit, 5/1/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 489 kb)
8	Document	Medicare Beneficiary Out-of-Pocket Costs: Are Medicare Advantage Plans a Better Deal?, 5/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 241 kb)
8	Document	Baseline Comparison of the Part D Low-Income Subsidy and MSP Eligibility and Enrollment Rules , 5/1/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 301 kb)
8	Document	Medicare Beneficiary Out-of-Pocket Costs: Are Medicare Advantage Plans a Better Deal?, 5/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 309 kb)
8	Document	Announcement of Calender Year 2007 Medicare Advantage Capitation Rates and Payment Policies , 4/1/2006 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 22 kb)
8	Document	A Benefit for Insurers , 3/31/2006 - Source: The New York Times (Word Document: 39 kb)
8	Document	The Landscape of Private Firms Offering Prescription Drug Coverage in 2006 , 3/1/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 680 kb)
8	Document	Has Medicare Been Privatized? Implications of the Medicare Modernization Act, 2/8/2006 - Source: Center for American Progress (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 187 kb)
8	Document	Dual Eligibles: Medicaid's Role for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries , 2/1/2006 - Source: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 118 kb)
8	Document	Mark Miller MedPAC Presentation: Hospital Pricing Policy, 1/24/2006 - Source: MedPAC (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 195 kb)
8	Document	Sourcelist: Making Sense of Medicare's Drug Benefit, 11/7/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 61 kb)
8	Document	Sourcelist: Implementing the Medicare Drug Benefit, 9/27/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 101 kb)
8	Briefing Transcript	Implementing the Medicare Drug Benefit, 9/27/2005 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 164 kb)
8	Document	Mark Benoff Presentation: Implementing the Medicare Drug Benefit, 9/27/2005 - Source: Cambridge Pharma Consultancy (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 126 kb)
8	Document	Medicare Advantage Payment Areas and Risk Adjustment , 6/1/2005 - Source: MedPAC (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 281 kb)
8	Document	Sourcelist: Medicare Basics, From (Part) A to D, 5/16/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 25 kb)
8	Document	Sourcelist: How Good is the Quality of Care in Medicare?, 5/6/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 79 kb)
8	Document	Medicare Spending and Financing , 4/1/2005 - Source: The Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 80 kb)
8	Document	Early Effects of the MMA: Benefits, Cost Sharing, and Premiums of Medicare Advantage Plans, 4/1/2005 - Source: AARP Public Policy Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 206 kb)
8	Document	Profile and Analysis of the 26 Medicare Advantage Regions , 3/1/2005 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 843 kb)
8	Document	The Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans , 12/1/2004 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 210 kb)
8	Document	The Value of Private Sector Health Care Choices in Medicare Advantage, 11/2/2004 - Source: America's Health Insurance Plans (Word Document: 401 kb)
8	Document	Culture Change in Nursing Homes - Stephen Shields, 10/4/2004 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Word Document: 57 kb)
8	Document	Appropriateness of Minimum Nurse Staffing Ratios in Nursing Homes, 12/1/2001 - Source: Abt Associates Inc. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 42 kb)
8	Document	OBRA '87 Summary, 1/1/2000 - Source: National Long Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 230 kb)
8	Issue Brief	Pay-for-Performance: A Promising Start, 2/1/2006 "Pay-for-Performance" programs attempt to reward quality health care by setting different payment levels for providers based on how well they meet benchmarks for quality and efficiency. More than 100 pay-for-performance programs were up and running in the U.S. as of September 2005. This issue brief describes how the programs work, why they were established and what challenges need to be addressed going forward. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 513 kb)
8	Offsite Document	Estimated Effects of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” as Amended, on the Year of Exhaustion for the Part A Trust Fund, Part B Premiums, and Part A and Part B Coinsurance Amounts, 4/22/2010 - Source: CMS: Office of the Actuary Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Health Reform Implementation Timeline, 4/27/2010 - Source: The Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Health Reform and Medicare: A Timeline of Implementation, 4/7/2010 - Source: Medicare Rights Center Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Summary of Key Medicare Provisions in Health Reform Law, 5/5/2010 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Explaining Health Care Reform: Key Changes to the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit Coverage Gap, 3/1/2010 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, Focus on Health Reform Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Explaining Health Care Reform: Questions about Medicare Advantage, 4/1/2010 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, Focus on Health Reform (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Medicare’s Opportunity to Encourage Innovation in Health Care Delivery, 3/4/2010 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	The Evaluation of the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration: Findings for the First Two Years, 3/21/2007 - Source: Mathematica Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Enhancing Value in Medicare: Chronic Care Initiatives To Improve the Program, 5/9/2007 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	The Republican Health-Care Surrender, 5/15/2008 - Source: Wall Street Journal (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Recalibrating Medicare Payments for Inpatient Care, 11/26/2006 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Medicare and Chronic Conditions, 7/21/2005 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Health Spending Projections Through 2018: Recession Effects Add Uncertainty to the Outlook, 2/24/2009 - Source: Heatlh Affairs (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	How Health Reform Legislation Will Affect Medicare Beneficiaries, 3/1/2010 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Details on Medicare Prescription Drug Deal Remain Murky, 7/13/2009 - Source: Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Improving Nursing Home Enforcement: Findings from Enforcement Case Studies, 3/22/2007 - Source: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Division of Health Care Policy and Research Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	OBRA 1987 and the Quality of Nursing Home Care (AHRQ), 3/1/2006 - Source: Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Testimony of John Schnelle (Vanderbilt University), 11/15/2007 - Source: House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Health (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	At Many Homes, More Profit and Less Nursing (New York Times), 9/23/2007 - Source: New York Times (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Strengthening medicare's Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 10/1/2006 - Source: NASI Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	CMS: Seven Private Fee-for-Service Plans to Suspend Marketing, 6/15/2007 - Source: CQ HealthBeat News (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Curbing Medicare Overpayments to Private Insurers Could Benefit Minorities, 5/14/2007 - Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Abstract - A Story of Culture Creation: The Alois Alzheimer Center, 7/1/2007 - Source: Alzheimer's Care Today (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Medicare Advantage, 4/5/2007 - Source: Medicare Advocacy Group (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Medicare Payment Policy, 3/1/2007 - Source: MedPac Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Medicare, the National Quality Infrastructure, Health Disparities, 10/1/2006 - Source: NASI Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Briefing	Beyond the $10 Aspirin: How Well Does Our Hospital Financing System Work? , 1/24/2006 Across the country, hospitals are both a critical part of the U.S. health care safety net and a powerful economic engine. Should there be greater transparency regarding hospital costs and charges? Looking ahead, what does the trend in opening specialty hospitals mean for hospital spending, costs, payments and charges? Is there any clear relationship between what hospitals are paid for services and quality of care?
7	Briefing	HEALTH CARE in the 2006 BUDGET: What’s Next? What to Watch for in the Coming Debates, 2/18/2005 President Bush’s FY 2006 budget could have long-lasting effects on several health programs. If enacted as is, the budget would trim $60 billion in the growth in Medicaid spending over the next 10 years. At the same time, the budget offers $11 billion in new money to enroll children in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. It would provide $74 billion in tax incentives to help the uninsured buy coverage. Some congressional budget leaders have signaled their intention to find budget savings in another entitlement program – Medicare. After the hearings are over and the votes taken, how many of the president’s health initiatives will remain? What budget proposals originating with Congress might be adopted? How will discretionary programs – like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health – be affected? What are the long-term implications for health care providers and consumers, and for the deficit?
7	Document	Using Medicare as Part of Coverage Expansion?, 6/6/2008 - Source: Word Document (Word Document: 36 kb)
7	Document	Baucus May Move Early on Medicare Advantage Cuts, 1/15/2008 - Source: Congressional Quarterly - CQ.com (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 24 kb)
7	Document	Rewarding Excellence and Efficiency in Medicare Payments, 9/1/2007 - Source: Milbank Quarterly (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 515 kb)
7	Document	Transforming Nursing Homes, 9/1/2007 - Source: InformeDesign (University of Minnesota) (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 798 kb)
7	Document	Preliminary Research Supports Nursing Home Culture Change Movement, 8/1/2007 - Source: Pioneer Network (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 111 kb)
7	Document	Ignagni - The Value of Medicare Advantage, 7/16/2007 (PowerPoint: 1,479 kb)
7	Document	Building State-Based High Performing Systems of Care, 6/15/2007 - Source: Christopher F. Koller (PowerPoint: 245 kb)
7	Document	The President’s FY 2007 Budget Proposal: Overview and Briefing Charts, 3/6/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Word Document: 144 kb)
7	Document	National Spending for Long-Term Care, 2/2/2007 - Source: Georgetown University Long-Term Care Financing Project (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 232 kb)
7	Document	Medicare Advantage- Fact Sheet, 2/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 326 kb)
7	Document	Medicare Part D Plan Characteristics, 2007- Fact Sheet, 1/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 135 kb)
7	Document	Budget in Brief- FY 2008, 1/1/2007 - Source: HHS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 816 kb)
7	Document	The Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans, 11/1/2006 - Source: Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 237 kb)
7	Document	Medicare and Prescription Drug- Fact Sheet, 11/1/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 381 kb)
7	Document	Privatizing Medicare: The Train has already left the tracks, 10/19/2006 - Source: Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 53 kb)
7	Document	Physician Services Payment System- payment basics, 9/1/2006 - Source: MedPac (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 755 kb)
7	Document	Medicare Physician Payment: Are we getting what we pay for? Are we Paying for what we get? , 7/25/2006 - Source: Commonweatlh (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 245 kb)
7	Document	National Coverage Determinations with Data Collection as a Condition of Coverage, 7/14/2006 - Source: Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (Word Document: 81 kb)
7	Briefing Transcript	Reviewing Prescription Drug Coverage, 6/23/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 227 kb)
7	Document	Steven Morgan Presentation: Well-Designed Drug Review Processes Can Improve Drug Coverage, 6/23/2006 - Source: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, U. of British Columbia (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 383 kb)
7	Document	Sourcelist: Helping the Medicare Savings Programs Get Savings to Seniors, 6/12/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 39 kb)
7	Document	Radical Redesign of Nursing Homes: Applying the Green House Concept in Tupelo, MS, 6/1/2006 - Source: The Gerontologist (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 270 kb)
7	Document	Biotechnology Faces Cost Challenges in Consumer-Driven Healthcare Environment, 5/1/2006 - Source: Tom Morrow, Journal of Managed Care Medicine (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 139 kb)
7	Document	CMS announces increased payment rates for Medicare Advantage plans in 2007, 4/30/2006 - Source: Managed Care Law Weekly (Word Document: 27 kb)
7	Document	New Study Captures Variations Across Medicare Drug Plans, 4/11/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Word Document: 56 kb)
7	Document	CMS Sets $500 Threshold for Specialty Tiers, 4/1/2006 - Source: Medicare Drug Reimbursement Guide (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 393 kb)
7	Document	Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: An Overview of Implementation for Dual Eligibles, 2/6/2006 - Source: Congressional Research Service (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 99 kb)
7	Document	Dual Eligibles: Making the Case for Federalization , 2/1/2006 - Source: National Governors Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 194 kb)
7	Document	Dual Eligible Categories , 1/1/2006 - Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Word Document: 53 kb)
7	Document	Dual Eligible Income Limits for 2006 , 1/1/2006 - Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Word Document: 43 kb)
7	Document	As biotech drug prices rise, U.S. hunts for solution, 12/28/2005 - Source: Geeta Anand, The Wall Street Journal (Word Document: 45 kb)
7	Document	Dual eligibles- CMS, 12/14/2005 - Source: CMS (Word Document: 38 kb)
7	Document	Simplifying Enrollment in Medicaid and Medicare Savings Programs , 12/1/2005 - Source: AARP Public Policy Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 304 kb)
7	Document	Medicare Demonstration Shows Hospital Quality of Care Improves With Payment Tied to Quality, 11/14/2005 - Source: CMS (Word Document: 62 kb)
7	Document	The Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration, 11/1/2005 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 26 kb)
7	Document	Culture Change in For-Profit Nursing Homes - Leslie Grant, 11/1/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Word Document: 52 kb)
7	Briefing Transcript	Caring for the Elderly: Is There Any Answer to Rising Health Costs?, 9/26/2005 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 202 kb)
7	Document	Facilitating Enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs and Medicare Part D, 9/1/2005 - Source: State Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 364 kb)
7	Document	Quality of care in the Medicare program, 6/1/2005 - Source: MedPAC (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 178 kb)
7	Document	Enrolling Uninsured Low-Income Children in Medicaid and SCHIP- fact sheet, 3/1/2005 - Source: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,068 kb)
7	Document	Bringing Culture Change to Louisiana Nursing Homes/Report From the Frontlines of Culture Change, 11/9/2004 - Source: Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 54 kb)
7	Document	Testimony of Dr. Gerard Anderson: A Review of Hospital Billing and Collection Practices, 6/24/2004 - Source: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Word Document: 54 kb)
7	Document	How Assest Tests Block Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries from Needed Benefits, 5/1/2004 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 301 kb)
7	Offsite Document	Improving Medicare's Data on Race and Ethincity, 10/1/2006 - Source: NASI Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Bill H.R.6804- Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 (Introduced in House), 12/7/2006 - Source: Library of Congress- Thomas (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Opening Doors on Disease Management, 8/16/2006 - Source: HealthDecisions.org – Health Savings Accounts (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Medicare Links Doctors’ Pay to Practices, 12/12/2006 - Source: The New York Times (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program, 6/1/2006 - Source: MedPac Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Sen. Kennedy Outlines Goals for Senate HELP Committee, Including Universal Coverage for All U.S, 11/17/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (kaisernetwork.org) (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Rewarding Superior Quality Care: The Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration, 1/1/2006 - Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Bush Plan Offers Bonuses to Medicare Doctors Who Use Electronic Records, 6/10/2008 - Source: Congressional Quarterly (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Q+A: How does healthcare overhaul affect Medicare?, 3/22/2010 - Source: Reuters (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Holding the Line on Medicaid and CHIP: Key Questions and Answers About Health Care Reform’s Maintenance-of-Effort Requirements, 3/26/2010 - Source: Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	New Health Initiatives Put Spotlight on Prevention, 4/4/2010 - Source: The New York Times (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Health Care Reform, Dual Eligibles & Coverage Expansion, 4/1/2010 - Source: National Senior Citizens Law Center (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Part D Standards Aim to Encourage e-Prescribing, 4/28/2008 - Source: American Medical News (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program, 4/2/2009 - Source: The New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
6	Briefing	Prospects for Health Care: Where Will New Congressional Leadership Take Us?, 12/8/2006 Come January, we can expect to see some new approaches to health legislation. Sen. Harry Reid, incoming Senate majority leader, says one of his top three priorities will be more funding for stem cell research. House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi wants a vote early on to roll back the prohibition against the federal government negotiating prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries. And these are just two of the health issues likely to be debated in the new Congress. The White House too will have a definite voice in the debates to come.
6	Document	ESRD Disease Management Demonstration Fact , 10/17/2006 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 24 kb)
6	Document	TL: Early Experience with Pay-for-Performance: From Concept to Practice, 10/12/2006 - Source: Journal of the American Medical Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 60 kb)
6	Document	Sourcelist: Reviewing Prescription Drug Coverage, 6/23/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 41 kb)
6	Document	Maximizing MSP Enrollment with Part D: Lessons from Three States, 5/1/2006 - Source: State Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 287 kb)
6	Document	How Applicant Data for the Part D LIS Can Boost Enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs, 5/1/2006 - Source: State Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 298 kb)
6	Document	Administrative Costs Associated with Enrollment and Renewal for MSPs: A Study of New Hampshire , 2/1/2006 - Source: State Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 262 kb)
6	Document	Administrative Costs Associated with Enrollment and Renewal for MSPs: A Study of Minnesota, 2/1/2006 - Source: State Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 274 kb)
6	Document	Biologics and Benefit Design: What’s New for ’06?, 2/1/2006 - Source: Katherine Adams, Biotechnology Healthcare (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 141 kb)
6	Document	Chip Kahn Presentation: Modeling Pay-for-Performance, 1/24/2006 - Source: Federation of American Hospitals (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 307 kb)
6	Briefing Transcript	Beyond the $10 Aspirin: How Well Does Our Hospital Financing System Work?, 1/24/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 148 kb)
6	Document	Medicare Pay for Performance, 1/1/2006 - Source: Premier (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 166 kb)
6	Document	The Rise and Role of Specialty Pharmacies, 10/1/2005 - Source: David Suchanek, Biotechnology Healthcare (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 114 kb)
6	Document	Sourcelist: Caring for the Elderly: Is There Any Answer to Rising Health Costs?, 9/26/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 37 kb)
6	Document	Health Care Leaders: Pay-for-Performance Most Effective Way to Reduce Health Car, 5/13/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 46 kb)
6	Document	Medicare Drug Cost Estimates: What Congress Knows Now, 4/28/2005 - Source: The Heritage Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 390 kb)
6	Document	Reimagining America, 1/1/2005 - Source: AARP (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 360 kb)
6	Document	Medicare Savings Programs: Helping Your Clients Get and Use the Benefits, 1/1/2004 - Source: Center for Medicare Education (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 89 kb)
6	Offsite Document	Relationship Between Quality of Care and Racial Disparities in Medicare Health Plans, 10/25/2006 - Source: JAMA (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Value of Medicare Advantage to Low-Income and Minority Medicare Beneficiaries- Executive Summar, 9/20/2005 - Source: Emory - Rollins School of Public Health Adobe Acrobat PDF
6	Offsite Document	About Those Health Care Plans By The Democrats, 3/3/2008 - Source: New York Times (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Sen. Baucus to Tackle Health Care Costs, 11/16/2006 - Source: Forbes.com (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Health Insurance Regulation by States and the Federal Government: A Review of Current Approache, 4/6/2006 - Source: Health Policy Institute Adobe Acrobat PDF
6	Offsite Document	Navigating the Implementation Process--Reform Overview, 4/12/2010 - Source: Health Reform GPS (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Summary of Coverage Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 4/28/2010 - Source: The Kaiser Family Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
6	Offsite Document	Health Reform Implementation Timeline, 3/1/2010 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
6	Offsite Document	Candidates Issue Index, 5/13/2008 - Source: The Brookings Institution (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Beaverton retiree works to reassure seniors about health care reform, 4/16/2010 - Source: The Oregonian (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Retaining Benefits: An Important Aspect of Increasing Enrollment, 8/1/2009 - Source: National Council on Aging Adobe Acrobat PDF
5	Briefing	UNDERSTANDING RESOLUTIONS, RECONCILIATION, and OTHER BUDGETARY RULES OF THE ROAD, 2/11/2005 What are the basic steps in the budget process, and how are budgetary levers used to shape health policy? Who are the key actors at the various stages of the process? If there is a reconciliation bill, how will it be considered in the House and in the Senate? And if there is an effort to reduce the deficit by half over five years, what might this mean for major health programs?
5	Document	Tanisha Carino Presentation: The U.S. Perspective - Medicare Part D, 6/23/2006 - Source: Avalere Health (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 245 kb)
5	Document	Hitting Where it Hurts: Congress Considers Incentives, Penalties to Spur Quality, 4/3/2006 - Source: Modern Healthcare (Word Document: 34 kb)
5	Document	The U.S. Health Care Divide: Disparities in Primary Care Experiences by Income, 4/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 216 kb)
5	Document	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Update on the Quality of American Health Care , 4/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 191 kb)
5	Document	Sourcelist: Beyond the $10 Aspirin-How Well Does Our Hospital Financing System Work?, 1/24/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 35 kb)
5	Document	Development of Strategic Plan Regarding Physician Investment in Specialty Hospitals (excerpt) , 1/24/2006 - Source: Health Policy Alternatives (Word Document: 27 kb)
5	Document	Rewarding Superior Quality Care: The Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Centers, 1/1/2006 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 20 kb)
5	Document	Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project mentioned in the Wall Street Journal Article, 12/4/2005 - Source: Premier (Word Document: 28 kb)
5	Document	Medicare Says Bonuses Can Improve Hospital Care , 11/15/2005 - Source: The New York Times (Word Document: 32 kb)
5	Document	Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Hospitals that Disproportionately Treat Blacks, 10/25/2005 - Source: American Hospital Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 460 kb)
5	Document	Terris King Presentation: CMS Pay for Performance Programs , 7/15/2005 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 33 kb)
5	Document	AMA Letter to Congress in support of Specialty Hospitals, 4/22/2005 - Source: American Medical Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 80 kb)
5	Document	The 5 Stages of Biotechnology Management, 2/1/2005 - Source: Thomas Baker, Biotechnology Healthcare (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 186 kb)
5	Document	2005 International Symposium on Health Care Policy: Descriptions of Health Care Systems, 1/1/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 136 kb)
5	Document	Promising Strategies for Medicare Savings Program Enrollment, 12/1/2004 - Source: State Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 269 kb)
5	Offsite Document	Physician Focused Quality Initiative, 4/12/2006 - Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Evaluating the Efficiency of California Providers in Caring For Patients with Chronic Illness, 11/16/2005 - Source: Journal of Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Voinovich, Bingaman Introduce Legislation Aimed at Insuring the Uninsured, 5/9/2006 - Source: Senator Voinovich Office, press release (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	How Health Plans Partner with Providers Key to Quality, 8/21/2006 - Source: Alliance of Community Health Plans (Unknown File Type)

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