; payments; cost containment measures Subtitle A—Budgeting Sec. 601. National health budget. Subtitle B—Payments to providers Sec. 611. Payments to institutional and individual providers. Sec. 612. Ensuring accurate valuation of services under the Medicare physician fee schedule. Sec. 613. Office of primary health care. Sec. 614. Payments for prescription drugs and approved devices and equipment. TITLE VII—Universal Medicare Trust Fund Sec. 701. Universal Medicare Trust Fund. TITLE VIII—Conforming amendments to the employee retirement income security act of 1974 Sec. 801. Prohibition of employee benefits duplicative of benefits under the Universal Medicare Program; coordination in case of workers’ compensation. Sec. 802. Repeal of continuation coverage requirements under ERISA and certain other requirements relating to group health plans. Sec. 803. Effective date of title. TITLE IX—Additional conforming amendments Sec. 901. Relationship to existing Federal health programs. Sec. 902. Sunset of provisions related to the State Exchanges. TITLE X—Transition Subtitle A—Transitional Medicare buy-In option and transitional public option Sec. 1001. Lowering the Medicare age. Sec. 1002. Establishment of the Medicare transition plan. Subtitle B—Transitional Medicare reforms Sec. 1011. Medicare protection against high out-of-pocket expenditures for fee-for-service benefits and elimination of parts A and B deductibles. Sec. 1012. Reduction in Medicare part D annual out-of-pocket threshold and elimination of cost-sharing above that threshold. Sec. 1013. Coverage of dental and vision services and hearing aids and examinations under Medicare part B. Sec. 1014. Eliminating the 24-month waiting period for Medicare coverage for individuals with disabilities. TITLE XI—Miscellaneous Sec. 1101. Definitions. I Establishment of the Universal Medicare Program; universal entitlement