BUDGETARY IMPACT OF THE "MEDICARE, MEDICAID, AND S-CHIP BALANCED BUDGET REFINEMENT ACT OF 1999"
House-Senate Agreement:
------------------ CBO ESTIMATE ----------------
| PROGRAM REFINEMENT | 5 YEAR
(in billions) |
10 YEAR
(in billions) | ||
| Hospitals | 3.4 | 5.3 | ||
| Skilled Nursing Facilities | 2.1 | 2.1 | ||
| Outpatient Therapy Services | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||
| Home Health & Hospice | 1.3 | 1.4 | ||
| Dialysis & Durable Medical Equipment | 0.3 | 0.8 | ||
| Pap Smears & Immunosuppressive Drugs | 0.2 | 0.4 | ||
| Medicare+Choice | 1.9 | 2.5 | ||
| Medicaid | 0.7 | 1.2 | ||
| S-CHIP | 0.2 | 0.4 | ||
| Part B Interaction and Medicare+Choice Interaction | 0.8 | 1.8 | ||
| TOTAL SPENDING (reflecting House-Senate agreement)* | 12.4 | 17.1 |
Addition Per Administration's Request:
| Administration's Request for Hospital Outpatient PPS Clarification** | 3.9 | 9.6 | ||
| TOTAL SPENDING (reflecting Administration's request)* | 16.0 | 27.0 |
* Components may not add to total due to rounding.
** Request detailed in letters from the OMB (11/5/99) and the White House (11/15/99). Clarification will not be scored by OMB on its baseline.