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Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 Title V (Medicare) and Title VI (Medicaid) Law and Explanation

The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 makes significant changes in hospital reimbursement, Medicare Advantage plan reimbursement, Medicaid qualification, and the cost of health care to Medicaid recipients. Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, CCH Law and Explanation explains the changes, and provides the relevant amended law and conference committee report provisions. The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 will save $6.4 billion in projected Medicare spending and $4.7 billion in Medicaid spending over the next 5 years. The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, CCH Law and Explanation reviews and explains these new Medicare and Medicaid provisions covering Parts A, B, C, D and SCHIP, the new Family Opportunity Act, and more. This book includes highlights, explanations, law-in-place, selected sections of committee reports, and finding devices.

Table Of Contents

Title V. Medicare

• Chapter 1. Payment Provisions
• Chapter 2. Miscellaneous

• Chapter 1. Payment for Prescription Drugs
• Chapter 2. Long Term Care Under Medicaid
  1. Subchapter A. Reform of Asset Transfer Rules
  2. Subchapter B. Expanded Access to Certain Benefits
• Chapter 3. Eliminating Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Medicaid
• Chapter 4. Flexibility in Cost Sharing and Benefits
• Chapter 5. State Financing Under Medicaid
• Chapter 6. Other Provisions
  1. Subchapter A. Family Opportunity Act
  2. Subchapter B. Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration
  3. Subchapter C. Miscellaneous