1050132-232 jeft 6.26.75 CONTENTS Social Work I. Social Security Cash Benefit Provisions 1. Special minimum cash benefits.. 2. Increase in widow's and widower's insurance benefits. 3. Increased benefits for those who delay retirement beyond age 65. 4. Age 62 computation point for men 5. Liberalization of the retirement test_ 6. Dependent widower's benefits at age 60. 7. Childhood disability benefits__. 8. Continuation of child's benefits through the end of a semester.. 9. Eligibility of a child adopted by an old-age or disability insurance 10. Benefits for a child entitled on the record of more than one worker.. 11. Benefits for a child based on the earnings record of a grandparent__ 12. Nontermination of child's benefits by reason or adoption___. 13. Elimination of the support requirements for divorced women_ 14. Waiver of duration-of-marriage requirement in case of remarriage_ 15. Reduction in waiting period for disability benefits.. 16. Disability insured status for individuals who are blind.. 17. Disability insurance benefits applications filed after death.. 18. Disability benefits affected by the receipt of workmen's compensa- 19. Wage credits for members of the uniformed services.. 20. Optional determination of self-employment earnings.. 21. Coverage of members of religious orders who are under a vow of 22. Self-employment income of certain individuals living temporarily 23. Issuance of social security numbers and penalty for furnishing false information to obtain a number___ 24. Trust fund expenditures for rehabilitation services_ 25. Recomputation of benefits based on combined railroad and social 26. Payments to disabled former employee_-. 27. Social security coverage for foreign missionaries___ 28. Coverage of students and certain part-time employees. 29. Wage credits for World War II internees.. 8. Protection against loss of medicaid because of increased earnings. 9. Coordination between medicare and Federal employee plans--- 11 II. Medicare-Medicaid Amendments-Continued 12. Beneficiary liability under medicare_ Page 13. Limitation on Federal payments for disapproved capital expenditures_ 11 14. Demonstrations and reports... 15. Limitation on coverage of costs under medicare.. 16. Limits on prevailing physician charge levels 17. Limits on payments to skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities under medicaid___. 18. Payments to health maintenance organizations 19. Payments for the services of teaching physicians 20. Advance approval of ECF and home health coverage. 21. Termination of payment to suppliers of service 22. Elimination of requirement that States move toward comprehensive medicaid program-- 23. Elimination of medicaid maintenance of effort. 24. Determination of reasonable cost of inpatient hospital services under medicaid and maternal and child health programs__ 25. Customary charges less than reasonable costs under medicare_ 26. Institutional planning under medicare_ 27. Cost determination systems under medicaid. 28. Prohibition against reassignment of claims for benefits.. 29. Utilization review requirements under medicaid and maternal and child health programs 14 30. Notification of unnecessary hospital and skilled nursing facility admissions_ . 14 31. Use of State health agency to perform certain functions under medicaid.. 14 32. Relationship between medicaid and comprehensive health programs. 33. Proficiency testing 14 15 34. Penalty for fraudulent acts and false reporting 35. Provider Reimbursement Review Board_. 36. Validation of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals Surveys. 44. Disclosure of information concerning medicare agents and providers__ 46. Determining eligibility for medicaid for certain individuals. 47. Professional standards review organizations. 48. Physical therapy services and other services under medicare. 52. Extension of grace period for termination of supplementary medical insurance coverage where failure to pay premiums is due to good cause. 53. Extension of time for filing claim for supplementary medical insurance benefits where delay is due to administrative error_ 54. Waiver of enrollment period requirements where individual's rights were prejudiced by administrative error or inaction. 55. Elimination of provisions preventing enrollment in supplementary medical insurance program more than 3 years after first opportunity... 56. Waiver of recovery of incorrect medicare payments from survivor who 57. Requirement of minimum amount of claim to establish entitlement to 18 18 19 19 19 19 19 59. Provide that services of optometrists in furnishing prosthetic lenses not require a physician's order. 19 60. Prohibition against requiring professional social workers in ECFs under medicare_ 20 |