Understanding Medicare and Medicaid:
Fundamentals and Issues for the New Congress

This collection of documents corresponds to an invitation-only seminar for congressional health staff on the fundamentals of Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The sessions took place over two days in January 2009 and featured experts from the Government Accountability Office, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in addition to other public and private entities. Speakers described and explained the basics of the structural and financial underpinnings of Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP, as well as issues likely to be addressed by the new Congress, such as health care spending, Medicare payment, Medicaid financing and SCHIP reauthorization.

The pages here contain links to the seminar agenda, biographical sketches of speakers, PDFs of slides from presentations, as well as to additional reports, Web sites, and other resources. Materials are organized according to the session topics presented at the meeting and in the paper briefing book.

Contents

Tab 1	Agenda and Biographical Sketches
Tab 2	Health Care and the U.S. Budget: Public Programs in Context
Tab 3	Medicare 101: Eligibility, Benefits, Financing, and Administration
Tab 4	Medicare's Many Providers and Payment Systems: Parts A & B
Tab 5	Medicare's Many Providers and Payment Systems: Parts C & D
Tab 6	In Pursuit of Quality
Tab 7	Getting to Know the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Tab 8	Getting to Know the Congressional Support Agencies
Tab 9	111th Congress: Preview of Legislative Priorities
Tab 10	Medicaid 101: Eligibility, Benefits, and Financing
Tab 11	SCHIP 101 and Issues for Reauthorization
Tab 12	Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles: Two Programs, Twice the Challenge?
Tab 13	Looking to the Future: Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Reform
	Acronyms & Glossary

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