Documents/GAO2010/1: Wellbeing and Financial Security/1.1.2: Medicare

1.1.2: Medicare

Evaluate Medicare reform, financing, and operations

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Key Efforts: Evaluate CMS’s management of Medicare, „„including its implementation of legislative reforms and its service to providers and beneficiaries. Evaluate Medicare payment methods „„for health care providers and plans and assess the effects of Medicare’s payment methods on access to and quality of health care services. Examine CMS’s safeguards and „„program controls over provider and plan payments, beneficiaries’ access, and quality of health care services. Analyze Medicare’s financial condition „„and the potential consequences of structural reforms.

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