What does BBRA stand for?

Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (USA)

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Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999, Deficit Reduction Act of 2005) intended to reduce Medicare's PAC expenditures by establishing and refining prospective payment systems for rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes, long-term-care hospitals, and home health agencies.

State of the science on postacute rehabilitation: setting a research ...

In response to these concerns, the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 authorized pass-through payments, which are a way to augment, on a temporary basis, the OPPS payments for newly introduced pharmaceutical products first used after 1996.

Medicare: Drug Purchase Prices for CMS Consideration in Hospital ...

Developed as an add-on to the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999, it was the federal government's attempt to make up inadequate reimbursement rates to nursing homes for patients in high-acuity RUGs categories.

SNFs need to 'tough it out' for the first part of 2005

The effects of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) and the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA) on Medicare payments to SNFs have been analyzed by The Lewin Group, a national policy research group.

Balanced budget unbalances SNFs

The GAO also noted that Congress recently added an array of new tasks to HCFAs existing responsibilities through the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA), which tasked HCFA with implementing 335 provisions, as well as the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA), which added another 133 provisions.

GAO says Medicare program, HCFA should be restructured

The Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 directed GAO to study the feasibility and advisability of updating Medicare's payment rates for hospice care.

Medicare Hospice Care: Modifications to Payment Methodology May Be ...

The revisions are required by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999, and the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000.

Medicare changes range from benign to troublesome: more documentation ...

Increases in Medicare spending were attributed largely to changes in provider payments, including those enacted in the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999.

Bush proposes Medicaid cuts; national health care spending went up in ...