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Balanced Budget Act: Implementation of Key Medicare Mandates Must Evolve to Fulfill Congressional Objectives

T-HEHS-98-214 Published: Jul 16, 1998. Publicly Released: Jul 16, 1998.
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GAO discussed the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) implementation of Medicare provisions contained in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA), focusing on: (1) an overview of how HCFA's implementation has progressed since GAO's earlier testimony; (2) the efforts to inform Medicare beneficiaries about the expanded health plan choices available to them in 1999, commonly referred to as the information campaign; and (3) the prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNF), which began a 3-year phase-in in June 1998.

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