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Initially Medicare consisted exclusively of Part A, which covers hospital and other inpatient services, and Part B, which covers outpatient care, physician visits, and other “ medically necessary services .” Congress then added Medicare Part C ( originally called Medicare + Choice, then later changed to Medicare Advantage ), which allows enrollees to receive their Medicare benefits through a private plan, under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, while Medicare Part D was created under the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.
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Initially, Medicare compensated physicians based on the physician's charges, and allowed physicians to bill Medicare beneficiaries the amount in excess of Medicare's reimbursement.
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Initially the Court took a restrictive view on what consisted of torture, preferring to find that states had inflicted inhuman and degrading treatment.
Initially the party of the Malaysian Chinese Association was pro-ROC and mainly consisted of Kuomintang members who joined as an alternative and were also in opposition to the Malayan Communist Party, supporting the Kuomintang in China by funding them with the intention of reclaiming the Chinese mainland from the communists.
Initially, the National Register consisted of the National Historic Landmarks designated before the Register's creation, as well as any other historic sites in the National Park system.
Initially the intros consisted of simple messages, but they grew progressively more complex as they became a medium to demonstrate the purported superiority of a cracking group.
Initially, the Nile perch's diet consisted of native cichlids, but with decreasing availability of this prey, it now consumes mainly small shrimp and minnows.
Initially, it consisted of two " soft " Series D Atlas complexes ( 576A and 576B ).
Initially Arcadia Township consisted of all eight of the northern tier of townships in Kalamazoo County.
Initially this consisted of oil lamps which could be run up the mast and lowered for servicing.
Initially, the reunited band's sets consisted solely of material from The Stooges, Fun House, Skull Ring, and The Weirdness.
" Initially the musical instruments of rumba consisted of regular household items: the side of a cabinet functioned in the role of the present-day tumba or salidor ( primary supportive drum ), while an overturned drawer served as the quinto ( lead drum ) and a pair of spoons played the cáscara part on whatever was available "— Peñalosa ( 2010: xiii ).
Initially, the vocalists consisted of artists such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, Doris Day, and others.
Initially ' the Games ' consisted of a single event, a sprint along the length of the stadium.
Initially the overprint consisted of just " Österreich ", or " Österreich " and a bar obliterating the " Deutsches Reich " inscription.
Initially, quackery mainly consisted of the unauthorized practice of medicine and the peddling of " secret remedies ".
Initially consisting of only two jamesways, summer camp at its peak consisted of 11 berthing tents housing about 10 people each, two recreational tents and bathroom and gym facilities.
Initially broadcasting for two hours a week as a block of programming on the Nickelodeon ( it wouldn't be until 1983 that BET became a full fledged channel ), the network lineup consisted of music videos and reruns of popular black sitcoms.
Initially, the school seems to have consisted of a single room, but early in the twentieth century an infant classroom and cloakrooms were added to the west, and the main entrance appears to have been moved from the north to the south side.
Initially, each of these mixed regiments consisted of two batteries with four SU-122s each and four batteries with four SU-76 tank destroyers each.
Initially, ' Kilo Flight ' consisted of three aircraft provided by the Indian authorities.
Initially it had consisted of two cemeteries, the small one ( which was destroyed by the Germans in 1941 ) and the big one which has been preserved down to our own days ( small part of which, however, was destroyed by the Germans during World War II ).
Initially, the line consisted of recoloured re-releases of older Zoids, but TOMY quickly began producing new Zoids designs.
Initially, the Hasbro line consisted of just re-releases of Zoids from the NJR.
Initially, the rear fuselage and tailplane ( excluding the rudder ) were painted a bright yellow, yet the markings were later changed so that they consisted of horizontally-oriented red and yellow stripes.
Initially, Eighth Air Force under SAC consisted of the following:
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Initially, Pascal was largely, but not exclusively, intended to teach students structured programming.
Initially covering a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing and board games, particularly the role playing games ( Advanced ) Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and Traveller ( which were all published by other games companies ), the magazine underwent a major change in style and content in the late 1980s and is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40, 000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
Initially the Hydrafrac process was licensed exclusively to Halliburton.
Initially, the disc was available exclusively through the company's web site.
Initially, the terminal exclusively served passengers on the Miami, New York-JFK, Cali, Medellín, Pasto, and Montería routes.
Initially, CINEMA 4D was developed for Amiga computers in the early 1990s, and the first three versions of the program were available exclusively for that platform.
Initially, both the Hartree method and the Hartree – Fock method were applied exclusively to atoms, where the spherical symmetry of the system allowed one to greatly simplify the problem.
Initially, the procedures were performed by otolaryngologists, general surgeons, and general practitioners but over the past 30 years tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies have been performed almost exclusively by otolaryngologists.
Initially, the practice of Candombe was practiced exclusively by blacks, who had designed special places called “ Tangó ’ s ”.
Initially, the webstream consisted exclusively of music with the occasional identification break, but on September 14, 2007 it was relaunched with hosts and feature content, similar to but still programmed separately from the satellite radio station.
Initially designed as a media platform for all manner of young musicians, From The Top soon became exclusively dedicated to Classical music, and it was in this atmosphere that O ' Riley decided to augment the format by inserting, unannounced, his own arrangements, presumably Classical pieces, of Radiohead songs.
Initially, commissioned officers were drawn exclusively from the ranks of Singaporeans who had completed their GCE A levels or embarked on tertiary studies.
Initially, RWH activity was almost exclusively found in urban areas of the Midwest and the East ; it expanded to the West Coast when it absorbed the Bay Area Communist Union in 1979.
Initially sold exclusively at KB Toys, then repackaged for discount chains.
Initially, Berry notes, Adevărul reported claims of extremist Hungarians in Transylvania committing vandalism against national monuments while acknowledging that the UDMR was not endorsing such acts, but slowly became a tribune for encouraging ethnic Romanians to take action, exclusively presenting its public with politicized and unmitigated information provided by the official agency Rompres and by the Romanian ultra-nationalist group Vatra Românească.
Initially, this British Colonial battalion was almost exclusively composed of Sea Dayak ( Iban ) soldiers
Initially, the Indo-Europeanist scholars were inclined to postulate for the various people speaking Indo-European Italic languages, namely those belonging to Indo-European language families attested exclusively in Italy in antiquity, a separate unitarian branch of the Indo-European languages, parallel for example to the Celtic or Germanic ones, and this was identified under the common label of " Italic ".
Initially, armour was exclusively for nobles.
Initially, Yuma County assumed the burden of airfield maintenance and limited the use exclusively to Army and Navy aircraft.
Initially, he employed his mind control techniques almost exclusively on humans ( and occasional animals ), but during his incarceration in Iron Heights he became infatuated by the prison's ubiquitous rats and incorporated them into his gimmick, adding another similarity to his legendary namesake.
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