Medicare, Unemployment Compensation, and Public Assistance Amendments of 1982

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Medicare, Unemployment Compensation, and Public Assistance Amendments of 1982 - Title I: Medicare Changes - Subtitle A: Changes in Benefits and Coverage - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit an individual to elect hospice care, in lieu of certain other benefits, during two periods of 90 days each and one period of 45 days during the individual's lifetime. Provides for full reimbursement of reasonable costs to a hospice program, subject to a ceiling. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the hospice reimbursement method. Defines hospice care as including certain items and services furnished to the terminally ill in their homes, on an outpatient basis, and on a short term inpatient basis. Directs the Secretary to provide coverage of extended care services which are not post-hospital extended care services under such conditions as the Secretary finds appropriate so long as the inclusion of such services will not increase the total payments made under Medicare and will not alter the acute care nature of such services. Provides for Medicare coverage of, and application of the hospital insurance tax (through amendments to the Internal Revenue Code) to…