Description: This is an article explaining the options employers have under the Medicare Part D, or the Prescription Drug Improvement and Medicare Modernization Act - MMA - that took effect in January 2006. The article discusses 4 options under the MMA with the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Description: This article is about the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. This Act revises the Medicare landscape by the creation of Part C - Medicare+Choice, Medical Savings Accounts, payment reforms.

Description: Member benefit newsletter for the Social Insurance and Public Finance Section of the SOA.

Description: Graph of Medicare Prepaid Contracts

Description: Panel discusses a variety of current issues in the senior health-care marketplace, including the effects of current, pending, and proposed Medicare changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This session discussed about expected trends in medical care costs, changes in Medicare reimbursement practices and their short- and long-term effects, the emerging responsibility for providing long-term care, rise of managed health care, new and old participants, selection issues, multiple options, and small group market.

Description: Outline of changes to the Adjust Community Rate ACR Proposal process and Beneficary Information Form, Issue No. 38

Description: Two Medicare risk funding provisions that were radically changed by the BBA of 1997 funding variations by geographic area and risk adjustment. Issue No. 36

Description: Congress has been debating a revision to Medicare Advantage payments including limiting payments to the Medicare Fee-For-Service FFS cost. A county-specific impact study to the benchmark payment rates for each county nationally based on the FFS limitation criteria was performed. This article includes results for Florida, California, Pennsylvania and New York.

Description: An excerpt from the 2003 Annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Trust Funds which describes the basic methodology and assumptions used for the intermediate assumptions.