CMS released its rule changes for physician payments in Medicare. Significant cuts are set forth in the rule's 1669 pages, sure to spark a strong response from the physician community…
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Another study demonstrates quality performance and better cost benefits from Medicare Advantage plans.
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Healthways' Center for Health Research put our a report estimating that Medicare could save over $100 billion a year if beneficiaries entered the program in better health and maintained good…
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A study reported in the current issue of NEJM indicates that enrollment in Part D significantly increased drug spending for those persons who previously had no or a low level…
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The work of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is always worth reading carefully. (Medpac website) It is one of the government groups that seems to do its job with a…
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A study reported in Health Affairs, vol. 28, page 897 (May/June 2009), provides a further input to the question of the relationship, if any, between costs and quality in health…
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