Education and Training Resources
Tutorials
Summary
If you’re brand new to Medicare start here. This short tutorial covers the basics of the program and its parts: A, B, D and C.
Much of Medicare operates on prospective payment. Understanding how risk and payment are calculated in Medicare is key to CMS’ policy making process.
Once we know how risk is accounted for in the prospective payment system, we can take some other variables and arrive at a payment rate. This tutorial gets us ready to move ahead to the various services covered by Medicare.
Now that you understand the basics of PPS and classification it’s time to jump into the Medicare Part A payment model for Skilled Nursing Facilities.
Documents
Medicare Modernization Act. The legislative language of the law that created Medicare Part D
Medicare Modernization Act Final Rule
This is the final rule, released in January, 2005, implementing the Medicare Drug Benefit program