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Overview of Medicare Parts A-D

As Medicare spending continues to climb, policymakers are calling for major reforms to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries continue to have access to care without bankrupting the Medicare Trust Fund (Fig 1). It's hard to know what the future holds for health care and how potential changes to the system would affect cancer care delivery. In the following pages, we'll present a primer on Medicare Parts A-D to provide oncologists context for the substantive Medicare reform debates that are anticipated to begin during the coming months.

View larger version (24K):   Figure 1. These projections are based on the trustees' intermediate set of assumptions. Source: 2008 . . . [Click for More]

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