Medicare coverage

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Hackbarth CM (Chair), Report to the Congress Medicare Coverage of Nonphysician Practitioners. Washington, D.C.,... 

Prior to January 2000, medicare provided outpatient immunosuppressive therapy for 36 months posttransplant to patients who were Medicare eligible due to age or disability and met criteria in items 2-5 listed previously. As of January 2000, eligible beneficiaries whose Medicare coverage for immunosuppressants expired during the year 2000 received an additional 8 months of Medicare cov-... 

Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services. Obesity as an Illness ( CAG-00108N). Medicare Coverage Policy, National Coverage Determinations Tracking Sheet and Coverage Issues Manual, sections 35— 26, 35-33. http //www.cms.hhs.gov/mcd/viewtrackingsheet.asp id=57. Accessed May, 2004. 

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scans, Medicare Coverage Issues Manual, Section50-36, Transmittal R147 (2002). http //www.cms.gOv//transmitals/ downloads/R147cim.pdf... 

In practice, there are other exclusions from Medicare coverage, particularly for drugs administered as part of a clinical research protocol. Prior to 1983 Medicare paid hospitals for the individual services they provided to patients. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Medicare s payment for clinical research was common in that period (446),... 

Despite the fact that project B s expected cash flow is riskier than that of project A, that risk is largely diversifiable, because it is unique to the project and depends only on the Medicare coverage decision which, we can assume, is unaffected by the state of the economy. Project A s risk, on the other hand, may reflect undiversifiable, or systematic, risk because demand for analgesics may vary with the state of the economy. Although the total risk of project B is much... 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Medicare Coverage for Investigational Drugs Exploring the Options, unpublished document, U.S. Deparment of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, 1990. 

Medicare supplement policy a policy guaranteeing that a health plan will pay a policyholder s coinsurance, deductible and copayments and will provide additional health plan or non-Medicare coverage for services up to a predefined benefit limit. In essence, the product pays for the portion of the cost of services not covered by Medicare. Also called Medigap or Medicare wrap. 

Stone, M.B. and Wallace, R.B. (Eds.) (2003). Medicare Coverage of Routine Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction. Committee on Medicare Coverage of Routine Thyroid Screening. Board on Health Care Services. 

The patient or proxy must agree that the hospice benefit will replace standard Medicare coverage for the terminal illness... 

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