Medicare: Change in Contingency Reserve Funding Held Down Increase in Part B Premium

摘要

The report contains an inquiry into the justification for the 38.5 percent increase in Medicare's part B, Supplementary Medical Insurance, premium for 1988. It compares the method used by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to compute the 1988 premium with the methods used in previous years to see if any significant changes had occurred that would have affected the premium amount.