Saturday, August 1, 2009

Division B - Medicare and Medicaid

This section on the changes to Medicare and Medicaid eat up pages 215 to page 855. The giant section is divided up as follows:
Title I - Improving Health Care Value
Subtitle A - Provisions related to Medicare Part A
Part 1 - Market Basket Updates
Part 2 - Other Medicare Part A provisions
Subtitle B - Provisions related to Part B
Part 1 - Physician's Services
Part 2 - Market Basket Updates
Part 3 - Other provisions
Subtitle C - Provisions related to Medicare Parts A and B
Subtitle D - Medicare Advantage reforms
Part 1 - Payment and Administration
Part 2 - Beneficiary Protections and Anti-Fraud
Part 3 - Treatment of Special Needs Plans
Subtitle E - Improvments to Medicare Part D
Subtitle F - Medicare Rural Access Protections

Title II - Medicare Beneificiary Improvements
Subtitle A - Improving and Simplifying Financial Assistance for Low Income Medicare beneficiaries
Subtitle B - Reducing Health Disparities
Subtitle C - Miscellaneous Improvements

Title III - Promoting primary care, mental health services and coordinated care

Title IV - Quality
Subtitle A - Comparative Effectiveness Research
Subtitle B - Nursing Home Transparency
Part 1 - Improving transparency of information on skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities
Part 2 - Targeting enforcement
Part 3 - Improving staff training
Subtitle C - Quality measurements
Subtitle D - Physician payments sunshine provision
Subtitle E - Public reporting on health care-associated infections

Title V - Medicare Graduate Medical Education

Title VI - Program Integrity
Subtitle A - Increased funding to fight waste, fraud, and abuse
Subtitle B - Enhanced penalties for fraud and abuse
Subtitle C - Enhanced program and provider protections
Subtitle D - Access to information needed to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse

Title VII - Medicaid and CHIP
Subtitle A - Medicaid and health reform
Subtitle B - Prevention
Subtitle C - Access
Subtitle D - Coverage
Subtitle E - Financing
Subtitle F - Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Subtitle G - Puerto Rico and the territories
Subtitle H - Miscellaneous

Title VIII - Revenue-related provisions

Title IX - Miscellaneous Provisions

It's going to be painful but I'm going to slog through it. The key is really understanding the current code, which of course I don't.

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