Dual Eligibles: Medicaid’s Role for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries January 31, 2005 Fact Sheet Dual Eligibles: Medicaid’s Role for Low-Income Medicare BeneficiariesThis fact sheet and set of tables describe the over 7 million “dual eligibles,” the low-income elderly and persons with disabilities who are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. The fact sheet describes why this population needs Medicaid, what services they receive from…
Navigating Medicare and Medicaid, 2005: A Resource Guide for People with Disabilities, Their Families, and Their Advocates January 30, 2005 Report This guide explains the critical role Medicare and Medicaid have come to play in the lives and the futures of roughly 20 million children, adults, and seniors with disabilities – and gives people with disabilities new information to help them get the most from these programs.Full PDF Report (.pdf)Section 1:…
Navigating Medicare and Medicaid: A Resource Guide for People with Disabilities, Their Families, and Their Advocates January 30, 2005 Report Navigating Medicare and Medicaid: Resource Guides for People with Disabilities, Their Families, and Their AdvocatesThese guides explain the critical role Medicare and Medicaid have come to play in the lives and the futures of roughly 20 million children, adults, and seniors with disabilities – and give people with disabilities new…
Keeping Medicare and Medicaid When You Work, 2005: A Resource Guide for People with Disabilities, Their Families, and Their Advocates January 30, 2005 Report This guide helps to explain the program rules for Medicare and Medicaid with regard to work. Medicare and Medicaid have come to play important roles in the lives and the futures of roughly 20 million children, adults, and seniors with disabilities – and this guide gives people with disabilities new…
Transitions 2005 January 24, 2005 Video Transitions is a video that explores some of the issues and challenges “dual eligibles” may face during the transition from Medicaid drug coverage to Medicare. To download the video, right-click here and select “Save as…”
The New Medicare Prescription Drug Law: Issue for Enrolling Dual Eligibles into Drug Plans – Issue Paper January 1, 2005 Issue Brief The New Medicare Prescription Drug Law: Issues for Enrolling Dual Eligibles into Drug PlansThis report describes the characteristics of dual eligibles and then discussess four key elements of the transition of their drug coverage to Medicare.Issue Paper (.pdf)
Medicare’s New Prescription Drug Benefit: The Voices of People Dually Covered by Medicare and Medicaid – Report January 1, 2005 Report Medicare's New Prescription Drug Benefit: The Voices of People Dually Covered by Medicare and MedicaidThis focus group report highlights the kinds of questions, uncertainties, and reactions that dual eligibles have when asked about the impending changes in their drug coverage.Report (.pdf)
Summary of the Proposed Rule to Implement the New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit November 30, 2004 Issue Brief In August 2004, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a proposed rule to implement the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Title I of the Medicare Modernization Act). Given the high level of interest in the proposed rules for implementing the Medicare drug benefit, the Kaiser Family Foundation commissioned Health…
Prescription Drug Spending Under The MMA: Modeling The Impact On Out-of-Pocket Costs November 1, 2004 Event This report projects the impact of the new Medicare drug benefit on out-of-pocket spending for people who enroll in 2006. The analysis is based on a model developed by the Actuarial Research Corporation for the Kaiser Family Foundation. The model generally conforms to the Congressional Budget Office’s assumptions and projections…
Estimates of Medicare Beneficiaries’ Out-of-Pocket Drug Spending in 2006 November 1, 2004 Report This report projects the impact of the new Medicare drug benefit on out-of-pocket spending for people who enroll in 2006. This analysis from November 2004 estimates that 6.9 million beneficiaries are projected to be affected by the coverage gap (the so-called “doughnut hole”) in the standard Part D drug benefit.…
