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Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services

By: Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Care Services,Committee on Medicare Coverage Extensions

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Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services

By: Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Care Services,Committee on Medicare Coverage Extensions

This report, which was developed by an expert committee of the Institute of Medicine, reviews the first three services listed above. It is intended to assist policymakers by providing syntheses of the best evidence available about the effectiveness of these services and by estimating the cost to Medicare of covering them. For each service or condition examined, the committee commissioned a review of the scientific literature that was presented and discussed at a public workshop. As requested by Congress, this report includes explicit estimates only of costs to Medicare, not costs to beneficiaries, their families, or others. It also does not include cost-effectiveness analyses. That is, the extent of the benefits relative to the costs to Medicareâ€"or to society generallyâ€"is not evaluated for the services examined. The method for estimating Medicare costs follows the generic estimation practices of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The objective was to provide Congress with estimates that were based on familiar procedures and could be compared readily with earlier and later CBO estimates. For each condition or service, the estimates are intended to suggest the order of magnitude of the costs to Medicare of extending coverage, but the estimates could be considerably higher or lower than what Medicare might actually spend were coverage policies changed. The estimates cover the five-year period 2000-2004. In addition to the conclusions about specific coverage issues, the report examines some broader concerns about the processes for making coverage decisions and about the research and organizational infrastructure for these decisions. It also briefly examines the limits of coverage as a means of improving health services and outcomes and the limits of evidence as a means of resolving policy and ethical questions.

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0309183502

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Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services

By: Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Care Services,Committee on Medicare Coverage Extensions

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By: Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Care Services,Committee on Medicare Coverage Extensions

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Medicare Coverage of Routine Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Medicare Coverage of Routine Thyroid Screening

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Medicare Coverage of Routine Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Medicare Coverage of Routine Thyroid Screening

When the Medicare program was established in 1965, it was viewed as a form of financial protection for the elderly against catastrophic medical expenses, primarily those related to hospitalization for unexpected illnesses. The first expansions to the program increased the eligible population from the retired to the disabled and to persons receiving chronic renal dialysis. It was not until 1980 that an expansion of services beyond those required "for the diagnosis or treatment of illness or injury or to improve the functioning of a malformed body member" was included in Medicare. These services, known as preventive services, are intended either to prevent disease (by vaccination) or to detect disease (by diagnostic test) before the symptoms of illness appear. A Committee was formed "to conduct a study on the addition of coverage of routine thyroid screening using a thyroid stimulating hormone test as a preventive benefit provided to Medicare beneficiaries under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act for some or all Medicare beneficiaries.

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0309168104

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Insuring America's Health

Principles and Recommendations

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance

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Insuring America's Health

Principles and Recommendations

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance

According to the Census Bureau, in 2003 more than 43 million Americans lacked health insurance. Being uninsured is associated with a range of adverse health, social, and economic consequences for individuals and their families, for the health care systems in their communities, and for the nation as a whole. This report is the sixth and final report in a series by the Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance, intended to synthesize what is known about these consequences and communicate the extent and urgency of the issue to the public. Insuring America's Health recommends principles related to universality, continuity of coverage, affordability to individuals and society, and quality of care to guide health insurance reform. These principles are based on the evidence reviewed in the committee's previous five reports and on new analyses of past and present federal, state, and local efforts to reduce uninsurance. The report also demonstrates how those principles can be used to assess policy options. The committee does not recommend a specific coverage strategy. Rather, it shows how various approaches could extend coverage and achieve certain of the committee's principles.

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Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services

Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services

Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services

Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services

Medicare Coverage of Routine Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction

Medicare Coverage of Routine Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction

Insuring America's Health

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