... relationships with the hospitals. Despite internal skepticism about the appropriateness of some established arrangements, SSA sought to avoid the administrative disruption and political conflict associated with change. Even where external pressure arose, SSA's response was cautious and limited. The fact...

... Medicare .33 Medicare patterns of reinibursentent prior to passage of P.L. 95-210. In the early 1970s, after substantial evidence that physicians were receiving a windfall from hiring NPs and PAS, the General Counsel of the Social Security Administration (SSA) ruled that the original...

... frogram Federal State-Local Total Disability Insurance (SSA) $7.6 - $7.6 Civil Service Disability 1.4 - 1.4 Railroad Disability 0.2 - 0.2 Black Lung benefits 0.6 - 0.6...

... and to demonstrate, as a public relations effort, that they were trying to limit cost rises. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the This paper is based in part on research supported by Contract Number SSA-PMB: 73-36, from the Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration...

... was protected.’ As it emerged from Congress and was handed back to its executive branch pro- genitors (now its administrators), then, the Medicare program incorporated three basic administrative tasks. Officials in the Social Security Administration (SSA) were to discharge efficiently the terms...

... Security Administration (SSA) . 2010 . The 2010 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds . www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2010/index.html (accessed February 7, 2011) . Vladeck B. C. Rice T. . 2009 . Market...

... the ACA's higher match rate), and sharing savings when a state meets financial targets. Our analysis focuses on the revamping of Medicaid's financial structure, without which the remaining details become moot. Medicaid is an amendment to the Social Security Act (SSA). The DHHS secretary may authorize...

... of the cur- rent political debate. The next several chapters contain his remarks to the employees of the Social Security Administration (SSA) on different occasions and deal with the administration and operations of the pro- gram. These remarks, not made...

... for an individual and $1,125 for a couple, which is approximately 75% of the federal poverty level (FPL) (SSA 2018 ). California also provides SSI recipients with a federally administered optional State Supplementary Payment (SSP), which provides up to an additional $160.72 per month for most recipients (SSA 2018...

... provides health benefits to 38 million elderly and disabled Americans, has struggled with coverage pol- icy since its inception in 1965. In the Social Security Amendments (SSA) that established the program, Congress broadly defined the covered ben- efit categories (such as hospital services and physician...

... health status assumptions of the model are derived from the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) mid-range (or 11-B) projections. Mortality rates are assumed to decline substantially over time. Disability rates are assumed to remain constant over time by age, sex, and marital status...

... of Health, Education, and Welfare, DHEW Pub. ,no. (SSA) 7611927, January 1976, p. 102; and Charles R. Fisher, “Differences by Age Groups in Health Care Spending,” Health Cure Financing Review 2 (Spring 1980): 81-83. Data on Medical Price Index: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department...

... prior to termina- tions of benefits based on medical factors. See PL 97-455, 96 Stat. 2498 (1983); 48 Fed. Reg. 36,831 (1983). One unresolved question regarding the use of representation in this context is whether they should advocate against SSA, or rather act as neutral developers...

... chronically mentally ill persons-one-fourth of the esti- mated 1.7 million chronically mentally ill persons in the U.S. -were receiving SSI benefits (Burt and Pittman 1985). In March 1981, the Social Security Admin- istration (SSA) began an aggressive program of SSI and SSDI eligibility rede...

... Area Population Projections, 1989. Actuarial Study 105, SSA 11–11552. Baltimore, MD: Office of the Actuary, Social Security Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Wiener , Joshua M. , and Raymond J. Hanley. 1989 . Assessing the Potential Role of Private Long-Term Care...

... of General Electric, Walter Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey, and Marion Folsom of Eastman Kodak, gave clear signals that various aspects of the New Deal, especially elements of the Social Secu- rity Act (SSA), would help stabilize competition for better employers being undercut in the depression...

...: (1) the Social Security Administration, not the IRS, calculates and collects Part B premiums for the vast majority of Medicare enrollees, and the Railroad Retirement Board does so for former railroad workers; and (2) a portion of the SSA’s and the railroad board’s costs are allocated...

...: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1973). 380 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2. P. Gertman and J. Restuccia, “The Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol: A Technique for Assessing Unnecessary Days of Hospital Care.” Supported by contract SSA 600-75-0209, Health Care Financing...

... as a Expenditure Expenditure on a Percentage Percentage (THE) in USD Health in USD of THE of THE (per capita) (per capita) (per capita) (per capita) Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) 49.14 21.29 39.9 3.5 Organisation for Economic Co-operation...

... if that benefit cost is placed in the general fund of Trea- sury” (Congressional Record, 7 April 1965: 7223). Social Security Admin- istration (SSA) officials agreed that linking a specific tax to a specific benefit encouraged “fiscal responsibility.”3 Yet if Mills strongly...