Number: RL30860 Title: MEDICARE PROVISIONS OF THE BALANCED BUDGET REFINEMENT ACT OF 1999 (P.L. 106-113) Authors: Carolyn L. Merck, Jennifer O'Sullivan, Madeline Smith, and Sibyl Tilson, Domestic Social Policy Division Abstract: This report summarizes the Medicare provisions in the BBRA99 and describes the prior law to which the changes in BBRA99 apply. In general, the prior law provisions to which the BBRA99 is compared are those that were included in BBA97. This report also includes provisions applicable to Medicare that are included in P.L. 106-113 but that are outside of the Medicare titles of the law. Pages: 46 Date: Updated February 22, 2001