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Sec. 1801. Prohibition against any Federal interference
Sec. 1802. Free choice by patient guaranteed
Sec. 1803. Option to individuals to obtain other health insurance protection
Sec. 1804. Notice of medicare benefits: medicare and medigap information
Sec. 1805. Medicare payment advisory commission
Sec. 1806. Explanation of medicare benefits
Sec. 1807. Chronic care improvement
Sec. 1808. Provisions relating to administration
Part A—Hospital Insurance Benefits for the Aged and Disabled
Sec. 1811. Description of program
Sec. 1812. Scope of benefits
Sec. 1813. Deductibles and coinsurance
Sec. 1814. Conditions of and limitations on payment for services
Sec. 1815. Payment to providers of services
Sec. 1816. Use of public agencies or private organizations to facilitate payment to providers of services
Sec. 1817. Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund
Sec. 1818. Hospital insurance benefits for uninsured elderly individuals not otherwise eligible
Sec. 1818A. Hospital insurance benefits for disabled individuals who have exhausted other entitlement
Sec. 1819. Requirements for, and assuring quality of care in, skilled nursing facilities
Sec. 1820. Medicare rural hospital flexibility program
Sec. 1821. Conditions for coverage of religious nonmedical health care institutional services
Part B—Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits for the Aged and Disabled
Sec. 1831. Establishment of supplementary medical insurance program for the aged and the disabled
Sec. 1832. Scope of benefits
Sec. 1833. Payment of benefits
Sec. 1834. Special payment rules for particular items and services
Sec. 1835. Procedure for payment of claims of providers of services
Sec. 1836. Eligible individuals
Sec. 1837. Enrollment periods
Sec. 1838. Coverage period
Sec. 1839. Amounts of premiums
Sec. 1840. Payment of premiums
Sec. 1841. Federal supplementary medical insurance trust fund
Sec. 1842. Use of carriers for administration of benefits
Sec. 1843. State agreements for coverage of eligible individuals who are receiving money payments under public assistance programs or are eligible for medical assistance
Sec. 1844. Appropriations to cover Government contributions and contingency reserve
[Sec. 1845. Repealed.]
Sec. 1846. Intermediate sanctions for providers or suppliers of clinical diagnostic laboratory tests
Sec. 1847. Demonstration projects for competitive acquisition of items and services
Sec. 1847A. Use of average sales price payment methodology
Sec. 1847B. Competitive acquisition of outpatient drugs and biologicals
Sec. 1848. Payment for physicians' services
Part C—Medicare+Choice Program
Sec. 1851. Eligibility, election, and enrollment
Sec. 1852. Benefits and beneficiary protections
Sec. 1853. Payments to Medicare+Choice organizations
Sec. 1854. Premiums
Sec. 1855. Organizational and financial requirements for Medicare+Choice organizations; provider-sponsored organizations
Sec. 1856. Establishment of standards
Sec. 1857. Contracts with Medicare+Choice organizations
Sec. 1858. Special rules for MA regional plans
Sec. 1859. Definitions; miscellaneous provisions
Part D—Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program
Subpart 1—Eligible Individuals and Prescription Drug Benefits
Sec. 1860D-1. Eligibility, enrollment, and information
Sec. 1860D-2. Prescription drug benefits
Sec. 1860D-3. Access to a choice of qualified prescription drug coverage
Sec. 1860D-4. Beneficiary protections for qualified prescription drug coverage
Subpart 2—Prescription Drug Plans; PDP Sponsors; Financing
Sec. 1860D-11. PDP regions; submission of bids; plan approval
Sec. 1860D-12. Requirements for and contracts with prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors
Sec. 1860D-13. Premiums; late enrollment penalty
Sec. 1860D-14. Premium and cost-sharing subsidies for low-income individuals
Sec. 1860D-15. Subsidies for Part D eligible individuals for qualified prescription drug coverage
Sec. 1860D-16. Medicare prescription drug account in the federal supplementary medical insurance trust fund
Subpart 3—Application to Medicare Advantage Program and Treatment of Employer-Sponsored Programs and Other Prescription Drug Plans
Sec. 1860D-21. Application to medicare advantage program and related managed care programs
Sec. 1860D-22. Special rules for employer-sponsored programs
Sec. 1860D-23. State pharmaceutical assistance programs
Sec. 1860D-24. Coordination requirements for plans providing prescription drug coverage
Subpart 4—Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card and Transitional Assistance Program
Sec. 1860D-31. Medicare prescription drug discount card and transitional assistance program
Subpart 5—Definitions and Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 1860D-41. Definitions; treatment of references to provisions in Part C
Sec. 1860D-42. Miscellaneous provisions
Part E—Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 1861. Definitions of services, institutions, etc.
Sec. 1862. Exclusions from coverage and medicare as secondary payer
Sec. 1863. Consultation with State agencies and other organizations to develop conditions of participation for providers of services
Sec. 1864. Use of State agencies to determine compliance by providers of services with conditions of participation
Sec. 1865. Effect of accreditation
Sec. 1866. Agreements with providers of services; enrollment processes
Sec. 1866A. Demonstration of application of physician volume increases to group practices
Sec. 1866B. Provisions for administration of demonstration program
Sec. 1866C. Health care quality demonstration program
Sec. 1867. Examination and treatment for emergency medical conditions and women in labor
Sec. 1868. Practicing physicians advisory council; council for technology and innovation
Sec. 1869. Determinations; Appeals
Sec. 1870. Overpayment on behalf of individuals and settlement of claims for benefits on behalf of deceased individuals
Sec. 1871. Regulations
Sec. 1872. Application of certain provisions of title II
Sec. 1873. Designation of organization or publication by name
Sec. 1874. Administration
Sec. 1874A. Contracts with medicare administrative contractors
Sec. 1875. Studies and recommendations
Sec. 1876. Payments to health maintenance organizations and competitive medical plans
Sec. 1877. Limitation on certain physician referrals
Sec. 1878. Provider reimbursement review board
Sec. 1879. Limitation on liability of beneficiary where medicare claims are disallowed
Sec. 1880. Indian health service facilities
Sec. 1881. Medicare coverage for end stage renal disease patients
Sec. 1882. Certification of medicare supplemental health insurance policies
Sec. 1883. Hospital providers of extended care services
Sec. 1884. Payments to promote closing and conversion of underutilized hospital facilities
Sec. 1885. Withholding of payments for certain medicaid providers
Sec. 1886. Payment to hospitals for inpatient hospital services
Sec. 1887. Payment of provider-based physicians and payment under certain percentage arrangements
Sec. 1888. Payment to skilled nursing facilities for routine service costs
[Sec. 1889. Provider education and technical assistance]
[Sec. 1890. Redesignated.]
Sec. 1891. Conditions of participation for home health agencies; Home health quality
Sec. 1892. Offset of payments to individuals to collect past-due obligations arising from breach of scholarship and loan contract
Sec. 1893. Medicare integrity program
Sec. 1894. Payments to, and coverage of benefits under, programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE)
Sec. 1895. Prospective payment for home health services
Sec. 1896. Medicare subvention for military retirees
Sec. 1897. Health care infrastructure improvement program
[1] Title XVIII of the Social Security Act is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Title XVIII appears in the United States Code as §§1395-1395ccc, subchapter XVIII, chapter 7, Title 42.
Regulations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to Title XVIII are contained in chapter IV, Title 42, and in subtitle A, Title 45, Code of Federal Regulations.
See Vol. II, P.L. 78-410, §353(i)(3) and (n), with respect to clinical laboratories.
See Vol. II, P.L. 88-352, §601, for prohibition against discrimination in Federally assisted programs.
See Vol. II, P.L. 89-73, §§203 and 422(c), with respect to consultation with respect to programs and services for the aged.
See Vol. II, P.L. 93-288, §312(d), with respect to exclusion from income and resources of certain Federal major disaster and emergency assistance.
See Vol. II, P.L. 95-250, §201(19), with respect to trust fund contributions, and §204(b)(4), with respect to Title XVIII ineligibility.
See Vol. II, P.L. 95-521, §102(i), with respect to reporting of benefits received under the Social Security Act.
See Vol. II, P.L. 96-265, §505, with respect to experiments, demonstration projects, and required reports to Congress.
See Vol. II, P.L. 97-248, §119, with respect to private sector review initiative and restriction against recovery from beneficiaries.
See Vol. II, P.L. 98-21, §603, with respect to a variety of studies and reports to Congress.
See Vol. II, P.L. 98-369, §2355, with respect to waivers for social health maintenance organizations.
See Vol. II, P.L. 99-177, §257(b)(3) and (c)(3), with respect to the calculation of the baseline.
See Vol. II, P.L. 99-272, §9220, with respect to extension, terms, conditions, and period of approval of the extension of On Lok waiver; and §9314, with respect to a demonstration program designed to reduce disability and dependency through the provision of preventive health services to medicare beneficiaries; and §9215, with respect to the extension of certain medicare health services demonstration projects.
See Vol. II, P.L. 99-319, §105, with respect to systems requirements.
See Vol. II, P.L. 99-509, §9339(d) with respect to State standards for directors of clinical laboratories; §9342 with respect to Alzheimer's disease demonstration projects; §9353(a)(4) with respect to a small-area analysis; and §9412 with respect to the waiver authority for chronically mentally ill and frail elderly.
See Vol. II, P.L. 99-660, Title IV, with respect to professional review activities.
See Vol. II, P.L. 100-203, §4008(d)(3), with respect to a report regarding hospital outlier payments.
See Vol. II, P.L. 100-204, §724(d), with respect to furnishing information to the United States Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the United Nations; and §725(b), with respect to the detailing of Government personnel.
See Vol. II, P.L. 100-235, §§5-8, with respect to responsibilities of each Federal agency for computer systems security and privacy.
See Vol. II, P.L. 100-383, §§105(f)(2) and 206(d)(2), with respect to exclusions from income and resources of certain payments to certain individuals.
See Vol. II, P.L. 100-407, §105(g), with respect to the effect of financial assistance under that Act.
See Vol. II, P.L. 100-411, §2(d)(3)(B), with respect to the effect of per capita payments.
See Vol. II, P.L. 100-581, §§501, 502(b)(1), and 503, with respect to exclusion from income and resources of certain judgment funds.
See Vol. II, P.L. 100-647, §8411, with respect to treatment of certain nursing education programs.
See Vol. II, P.L. 100-690, §5301(a)(1)(C) and (d)(1)(B), with respect to benefits of drug traffickers and possessors.
See Vol. II, P.L. 100-713, §712, with respect to the provision of services in Montana.
See Vol. II, P.L. 101-121, with respect to the amounts collected by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the authority of title IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
See Vol. II, P.L. 101-239, §6025, with respect to a dentist's serving as hospital medical director; §6205(a)(1)(A) and (a)(2), with respect to recognition of costs of certain hospital-based nursing schools.
See Vol. II, P.L. 101-508, §4008(i)(1), with respect to Secretarial waiver authority; §4008(k), with respect to the prospective payment system for skilled nursing facility services; §4008(l), with respect to regulations for rural hospitals; §4161(b)(3), with respect to productivity screens; §4202, with respect to a staff-assisted home dialysis demonstration project; §4204(b), with respect to the requirements for actuarial equivalence of AAPCC; §4207(b)(1), with respect to the prohibition of cost savings policies before the beginning of the fiscal year; §4207(b)(2), with respect to the prohibition of payment cycle changes; §4207(c), with respect to the development of a prospective payment system for home health services; §4359, with respect to health insurance advisory service for medicare beneficiaries; §4360, with respect to health insurance information, counseling, and assistance grants; §4801(e)(17)(B), with respect to a study and report on staffing requirements in nursing facilities; §13301, with respect to off-budget status of OASDI trust funds; and §13302, with respect to protection of OASDI trust funds in the House of Representatives.
See Vol. II, P.L. 103-432, §154, with respect to the qualified medicare beneficiary outreach.
See Vol. II, P.L. 104-134, §516(d), with respect to a study and report on deeming for nursing facilities and renal dialysis facilities.
See Vol. II, P.L. 105-13, §1, with respect to the extension of term of appointment of certain members of the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and the Physician Payment Review Commission.
See Vol. II, P.L. 105-33, §4002(c), with respect to an enrollment transition rule; §4011, with respect to Medicare+Choice competitive pricing demonstration project; §4012, with respect to advisory committees; §4014(c), with respect to the report on integration and transition; §4016, with respect to Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Project; §4021, with respect to a National Bipartisan Commission on the future of Medicare; §4207, with the Informatics, Telemedicine, and Education Demonstration Project; §4611(e), with respect to a transition for the aggregate amount of expenditures transferred from part A to part B of title XVIII; §4018, with respect to the Medicare enrollment demonstration project; §4019, with respect to an extension of certain Medicare community nursing organization demonstration projects; §4022(c)(3), with respect to continuing responsibility for reports; §4031(e), with respect to transition provisions; §4105(c), with respect to the establishment of outcome measures for beneficiaries with diabetes; §4107, with respect to the vaccines outreach expansion; §4108, with respect to a study on preventive and enhanced benefits; §4206, with respect to Medicare reimbursement for Telehealth services; §4315(d), with respect to developing a fee schedule for particular services; §4432(c), with respect to a medical review process; §4506, with respect to dissemination of information on high per discharge relative values for in-hospital physicians' services; §4513(c), with respect to utilization guidelines; §4532, with respect to demonstration of coverage of ambulance services under Medicare through contracts with units of local government; §4551(b), with respect to payment freeze for parental and eternal nutrients, supplies, and equipment; §4552(c), with respect to service standards for persons seeking payment under part B of title XVIII; §4552(d), with respect to access to home oxygen equipment; §4553(c), with respect to a study and report on clinical laboratory tests; §4554, with respect to improvements in administration of laboratory tests benefit; §4558, with respect to renal dialysis-related services; §4602(e), with respect to the submission of data for case mix system; §4616, with respect to reports to Congress regarding home health cost containment; §4628, with respect to a demonstration project on use of consortia; §4629, with respect to recommendations on long-term policies regarding teaching hospitals and graduate medical education.
See Vol. II, P.L. 106-554, §1(a)(6) [121], with respect to a demonstration project for disease management for severely chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries; [122], with respect to cancer prevention and treatment demonstrations for ethnic and racial minorities; and [128] with respect to a lifestyle modification program demonstration.
[2] This table of contents does not appear in the law.
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