tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 15

Dual Eligibles: COULD STATE CONCERNS BE KEY TO FATE OF MEDICARE Rx?

High on states' wish list for Congress is legislation to shift Medicaid costs for beneficiaries who also are eligible for Medicare wholly to the federal government and away from states, National Governors Association Executive Director Ray Shep-pach told an April 8 forum on state health coverage sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. "Hopefully there will be a Medicare drug bill passed this year" to accomplish that task. Medicare prescription-drug legislation developed by House Ways and Means Committee Chair Bill Thomas (R-CA) and passed last year by the House would phase in full federal responsibility for dual-eligibles' drug...

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