Date: June 29, 2001
CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES
OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
OFFICE OF THE ACTUARY
(FAN)
- Conducts and directs the actuarial program for CMS and directs the development of and
methodologies for macroeconomic analysis of health care financing issues.
- Performs actuarial, economic and demographic studies to estimate CMS program
expenditures under current law and under proposed modifications to current law.
- Provides program estimates for use in the President's budget and for reports required by
Congress.
- Studies questions concerned with financing present and future health programs, evaluates
operations of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and Supplementary Medical
Insurance Trust Fund and performs microanalyses for the purpose of assessing the impact of
various health care financing factors upon the costs of Federal programs.
- Estimates the financial effects of proposals to create national health insurance systems
or other national or incremental health insurance reform.
- Develops and conducts studies to estimate and project national and area health
expenditures.
- Develops, maintains, and updates provider market basket input price indexes and the
Medicare Economic Index.
- Analyzes data on physicians' costs and charges to develop payment indices and monitors
expansion of service and inflation of costs in the health care sector.
- Performs actuarial reviews and audits of employee benefit expenses charged to Medicare
by fiscal intermediaries and carriers.
- Publishes cost projections and economic analyses, and provides actuarial, technical
advice and consultation to CMS components, governmental components, Congress, and outside
organizations.
Last Modified on Thursday, September 16, 2004
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