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- Working Paper
This paper provides an overview of the current state of measuring health care quality, and it uses the Medicare program to illustrate the key issues and challenges that arise in doing so.
- Working Paper
Does Medicare Advantage (MA) increase the risk scores used to adjust payments to MA plans? This paper explores the mechanisms contributing to the differences in risk scores between MA enrollees and fee-for-service beneficiaries.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 16, 2017
- Report
This report explains the changes to CBO’s long-term Social Security projections since last year. Compared with those made in July 2016, CBO’s latest projections indicate a slight improvement in the financial outlook for Social Security.
- Report
This year, in lieu of publishing a separate report providing additional information on the agency’s long-term projections for Social Security, CBO is publishing the data that it would have presented in that report.
- Report
This report explains the various measures and approaches for quantifying the adequacy of retirement income, providing a framework for further analysis.
- Report
CBO presents new estimates of the budgetary effects of options for a premium support system for Medicare and examines the reasons for the changes in the estimates, including changes in law that have affected the Medicare program.
- Report
CBO analyzes the impact of retirement benefits on the federal budget and on the compensation, recruitment, and retention of its employees. It assesses the short-term and long-term effects of potential changes to those benefits.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 19, 2017
- Working Paper
This working paper projects the distribution of Medicare taxes and spending on the basis of administrative earnings data as well as demographic and economic projections from CBO’s long-term microsimulation model.