A. “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Did Not Reconcile Medicare Outlier Payments in Accordance With Federal Regulations and Guidance” (A-07-10-02764, June 2012, .pdf format, 21p.).
oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region7/71002764.asp
July 23, 2012
CAAR – US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General Report – July 23, 2012
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CAAR – US Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services Medicare Statistical Supplement Update – July 23, 2012
CMS’ Medicare and Medicaid Statistical Supplement has recently been updated (2012 edition, tables available in .zip compressed .pdf and Microsoft Excel format):
- Medicare Enrollment (Table 2.1 – 2.8):
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – July 23, 2012
A. “Enhanced Keratinocyte Proliferation and Migration in Co-culture with Fibroblasts,” by Zhenxiang Wang, Ying Wang, Farhang Farhangfar, Monica Zimmer, and Yongxin Zhang (PLoS ONE 7(7): e40951. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040951, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 12p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0040951
B. “Use of Motor Abundance in Young and Older Adults during Dual-Task Treadmill Walking,” by Leslie M. Decker, Fabien Cignetti, Jane F. Potter, Stephanie A. Studenski, and Nicholas Stergiou (PLoS ONE 7(7): e41306. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041306, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 9p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0041306
C. “Association Study of Candidate Gene Polymorphisms with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment in a Chinese Population,” by Xiaoyan Liu, Chunxian Yue, Zhi Xu, Hao Shu, Mengjia Pu, Hui Yu, Yongmei Shi, Liying Zhuang, Xiaohui Xu, and Zhijun Zhang (PLoS ONE 7(7): e41198. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041198, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 7p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0041198
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CAAR – Heritage Foundation Brief – July 23, 2012
“Turning Medicare into True Social Insurance,” by Kathryn Nix (No. 2712, July 2012, .pdf and HTML format, 6p.).
www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/07/turning-medicare-into-true-social-insurance
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CAAR – UK Parliamentary Library Research Note – July 23, 2012
“Pensioner benefits,” by Djuna Thurley and Steven Kennedy (SN06354, July 2012, .pdf format, 20p.).
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CAAR – College of Economics and Business [Australian National University] Working Paper – July 23, 2012
“Monetary transfers from children and the labour supply of elderly parents: evidence from Vietnam,” by Alison Booth, Ha Trong Nguyen, and Amy Y.C. Liu (Discussion Paper No. 664, July 2012, .pdf format, 28p.).
Abstract:
In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents’ need to work. Taking the possible endogeneity of children’s transfers in the parents’ labour supply into account and using maximum likelihood methods and Vietnamese data, we find that monetary transfers help the elderly cope with risks associated with old age or illness. At the same time, however, monetary transfers are not sufficient to fully substitute for parents’ labour supply.
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CAAR – Human Mortality Database – July 23, 2012
Note: HMD requires free registration before providing data. The following updates have been added to the database:
- Data for USA were revised and updated through 2009 (Jul. 20, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
- Data access.
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