Even today, regulators, legislators and members of the health care community struggle with the issues of what services Medicare should cover, how seniors and disabled persons should receive their health care and how the system should be regulated and financed. The recently finalized regulation expands the role of managed care while at the same time finetunes the payments made to managed care organizations. In addition, the rule makes several changes to the benefits and protections provided under Medicare managed care. As it has since the first Medicare law was enacted in 1965, CCH is offering professionals expert guidance and authoritative source material to cope with the latest changes. Its also not clear how hospitals will adjust to the new prospective-payment system for outpatient services, which took effect August 1.
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For more than 50 years, the company has regularly tracked, reported, explained and analyzed health and entitlement law for health care providers, insurers, attorneys and consumers. Harry Truman sends a message to Congress asking for legislation establishing a national health insurance plan. By the end of Truman's administration he had backed off from a plan for universal coverage, but administrators in the Social Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries. Ex-president Truman is the first to enroll in Medicare. Disabled persons under age 65 and those with end-stage renal disease become eligible for coverage.