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In the absence of a NCD, an item or service is covered at the discretion of the Medicare contractors based on a local coverage determination (LCD). As of 2015, local coverage determinations only become public on an appeal, and do not set a precedent. [3]: 458
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
Over 1.3 million people had selected plans for 2015 marketplace coverage in the first three weeks of the year's open enrollment period, including people who renewed their coverage and new customers. [34] As of January 3, 2014, 2 million people had selected a health plan through the health insurance marketplaces. [35]
Medicare Advantage plans may fill some coverage gaps and offer alternative coverage options in an attempt to make them appear more attractive to the subscriber as compared to traditional Medicare. Under Part C, Medicare pays a plan operator a fixed payment for each enrollee. The operator then pays for their medical expenses.
Palmetto, a 1998 neo-noir; Palmetto Records, an American jazz record label founded in 1990; Palmetto State Quartet, a gospel group from Greenville, South Carolina "The Palmetto State Song", a 1860 song popular during the American Civil War
The VisualBoyAdvance became the most popular GBA emulator for the Unix platform [18] and the emulator contributed "greatly" to the late years of GBA game development by providing a suite of development and visual debugging tools for developers who wanted to create games that surpassed even Nintendo's own. [19]
Diagnosis-related group (DRG) is a system to classify hospital cases into one of originally 467 groups, [1] with the last group (coded as 470 through v24, 999 thereafter) being "Ungroupable".
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110–233 (text), 122 Stat. 881, enacted May 21, 2008, GINA / ˈ dʒ iː. n ə / JEE-nə), is an Act of Congress in the United States designed to prohibit some types of genetic discrimination.