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This Act may be cited as the . Fiscal Sustainability Act of 2013 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—Medicaid Sec. 1101. Comprehensive Medicaid Waivers. Sec. 1102. Phased-in elimination of allowable provider taxes under Medicaid. TITLE II—Medicare Subtitle A—Medicare Total Health program; Medicare Fee-for-Service program reforms; Reports Sec. 2000. Short title; purpose. PART I—Medicare Total Health program Sec. 2001.
Establishment of Medicare Total Health program. Subpart 2—Medicare Total Health program Sec. 1860C–1. Eligibility, enrollment, and information. Sec. 1860C–2. Total Health plan benefits. Sec. 1860C–3. Access to a choice of qualified Total Health benefits plans. Sec. 1860C–4. Beneficiary protections for Total Health plan enrollees. Sec. 1860C–5. Total Health regions; submission of bids; Total Health plan approval. Sec. 1860C–6. Requirements for and contracts with Total Health sponsors.
Sec. 1860C–7. Total Health premiums. Sec. 1860C–8. Premium and cost-sharing support for Total Health eligible individuals. Sec. 1860C–9. Exemption for MSA plans. Sec. 1860C–10. Special rules for employer-sponsored programs. Sec. 1860C–11. Coordination with State Medicaid programs. Sec. 1860C–12. Definitions and miscellaneous provisions. Sec. 2002. Replacement of part B premium with Medicare Total Health program plan premium; other technical and conforming amendments. PART II—Medicare fee-for-Service reforms Sec. 2011.
Medicare protection against high out-of-pocket expenditures for fee-for-service benefits. Sec. 2012. Unified Medicare deductible. Sec. 2013. Uniform Medicare coinsurance rate. Sec. 2014. Prohibition on first-dollar coverage under Medigap policies and development of new standards for Medigap policies. PART III—Annual report to Congress Sec. 2021. Annual report to Congress. Subtitle B—Elimination of exemption of Medicare payments to physicians under statutory PAYGO Sec. 2101. Elimination of exemption of Medicare payments to physicians under statutory PAYGO.
Subtitle C—Adjustments to Medicare part B and D premiums for high-Income beneficiaries Sec. 2201. Adjustments to Medicare part B and D premiums for high-income beneficiaries. Subtitle D—Increase in the Medicare eligibility age Sec. 2301. Increase in the Medicare eligibility age. Subtitle E—Other provisions Sec. 2401. Limitation on Medicare payments for direct graduate medical education (DGME). Sec. 2402. Reduction in Medicare indirect graduate medical education
(IME)payments. Sec. 2403. Acceleration of application of productivity adjustment to Medicare home health prospective payment amounts. Sec. 2404. Acceleration of rebasing of Medicare home health prospective payment amounts. Sec. 2405. Reduction of bad debt treated as an allowable cost. TITLE III—Social Security Sec. 3101. Adjustments to bend points in determining primary insurance amount. Sec. 3102. Adjustment to calculation of benefit computation years. Sec. 3103. Minimum Social Security benefit. Sec. 3104. Increase in benefits starting 20 years after initial eligibility. Sec. 3105. Adjustment to normal and early retirement ages. Sec. 3106. Application of actuarial reduction for disabled beneficiaries who attain early retirement age. Sec. 3107. Option to collect up to one-half of old-age insurance benefit at age 62. Sec. 3108. Coverage of newly hired State and local employees. Sec. 3109. Inclusion in annual Social Security account statement of estimated present value of taxes and benefits for Social Security and Medicare and projected deficit as a percent of lifetime earnings. Sec. 3110. Retirement information campaign. TITLE IV—Conversion to chained CPI Sec. 4101. Conversion to Chained CPI.