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      "title": "President\u2019s FY2017 Budget for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): CRS Experts",
      "summary": "Federal law requires the President to submit an annual budget request to Congress no later than the first Monday in February. The budget informs Congress of the President\u2019s overall federal fiscal policy based on proposed spending levels, revenues, and deficit (or surplus) levels. The budget request lays out the President\u2019s relative priorities for federal programs, such as how much should be spent on defense, education, health, and other federal programs. The President\u2019s budget also may include legislative proposals for spending and tax policy changes. Although the President is not required to propose legislative changes for those parts of the budget that are governed by permanent law (i.e., mandatory spending), such changes generally are included in the budget. President Obama submitted his FY2017 budget request to Congress on February 9, 2016.\nThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the division of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) responsible for administering Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). CMS also is responsible for administering the private health insurance programs established in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; P.L. 111-148, as amended). In FY2016, CMS estimates that almost 125 million individuals will receive coverage through Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP. \nThe CMS budget includes a mixture of mandatory and discretionary spending. However, the vast majority of the CMS budget is mandatory spending, such as Medicare benefit spending and grants to states for Medicaid. In the President\u2019s FY2017 budget, proposed Medicare outlays make up 59.5% of the CMS budget and proposed Medicaid outlays comprise 37.9% of the CMS budget.\nThe CMS budget is divided into the following sections: Medicare, Medicaid, program integrity, CHIP, state grants and demonstrations, private health insurance protections and programs, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, and program management. The President\u2019s FY2017 budget contains a number of legislative proposals that would affect the CMS budget. Some of these proposals are program expansions, and others are designed to reduce federal spending.",
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