CMS: qualified individuals.(Federal Register)(United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)(Brief Article)

Older Americans Report, September, 2005

CMS: Qualified Individuals. Interim final rule. CMS for the first time reallocates funds used to pay the Medicare Part B premiums of people with incomes between 120 percent and 135 percent of poverty and who are otherwise ineligible for Medicaid, known as Qualifying Individuals. Of the $400 million allocated for FY05, $8.9 million will be redistributed from states that did not use their full allocations to states that overspent.

Thus, Alabama will receive $3.8 million; Arizona, $824,000; Connecticut, $2.3 million; Louisiana, $1.3 million; Mississippi, $566,000; and Oregon, $110,000. Comments on CMS-2210-IFC are due Oct. 25 and may be submitted at www.cms.hhs.gov/regulations/ ecomments. Effective Aug. 26. Contact: Christine Gearhardt, (410) 786-0693. Federal...

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