Medicare
- Presentation
CBO’s Analyses and Projections of Federal Health Care Costs
Presentation by Robert Sunshine, Senior Advisor in CBO’s Office of the Director, at the 10th Annual Meeting of the OECD Network of Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions.
- Report
The 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook
If current laws remain generally unchanged, CBO projects, federal budget deficits and debt would increase over the next 30 years—reaching the highest level of debt relative to GDP in the nation’s history by far.
- Presentation
Prices for and Spending on Specialty Drugs in Medicare Part D and Medicaid
Presentation by Anna Anderson-Cook, Jared Maeda, and Lyle Nelson (all of CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division) at the conference of the American Society of Health Economists.
- Presentation
Projections of Federal Spending on Major Health Care Programs
Presentation by Jessica Banthin, Deputy Assistant Director in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division, at the Alliance for Health Policy Summit on Health Care Costs in America.
- Report
Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65: 2018 to 2028
CBO and JCT project that the federal subsidies, taxes, and penalties associated with health insurance coverage for people under age 65 will result in a net subsidy from the federal government of $685 billion in 2018.
- Blog Post
CBO’s Projections of Spending for the 2018–2028 Period
Last Monday, CBO released The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028. This week, CBO is publishing daily blog posts to share key excerpts from the report, and today’s post is about the agency’s projections of federal spending.
- Report
The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028
In CBO’s projections, the economy grows relatively quickly this year and next and then more slowly in the following several years. The federal budget deficit rises substantially, boosting federal debt to nearly 100 percent of GDP by 2028.
- Working Paper
An Analysis of Private-Sector Prices for Physicians’ Services: Working Paper 2018-01
This paper analyzes private insurers’ prices for physicians’ services. Commercial prices for those services are higher than Medicare fee-for-service prices; Medicare Advantage prices are very similar to Medicare fee-for-service prices.
- Working Paper
Issues and Challenges in Measuring and Improving the Quality of Health Care: Working Paper 2017-10
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
Effects of Medicare Advantage Enrollment on Beneficiary Risk Scores: Working Paper 2017-08
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.