Seniors' Access to Health Care Act of 2002
Summary
Revises requirements with regard to Medicare: (1) part A concerning rural health care, inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facility services, and hospices; (2) part B concerning physicians' and other services; and (3) part A and B concerning home health services, direct graduate medical education, and other specified matters.
Establishes the Medicare Benefits Administration.
Amends SSA title XVIII part E (Miscellaneous) (previously part D) to include a number of regulatory reduction, contracting, and administrative changes.
Establishes the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicaid.
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to revise requirements regarding State disproportionate share (DSH) allotments.