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Perspective: The Sources of the SGR Hole

Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012.

Medicare’s Bundled Payment Pilot For Acute And Postacute Care: Analysis And Recommendations On Where To Begin

In the National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling, a subset of Medicare providers will receive a single payment for an episode of acute care in a hospital, followed by postacute care in a skilled nurs

2011 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods: Report to the Social Security Advisory Board

The 2011 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods was convened by the Social Security Advisory Board in September 2010 to review the assumptions specified by the Board of Trustees and to evaluate

Impact Evaluation of Niger’s IMAGINE Program

Cut Medicare, Help Patients

Medicare is going to be cut. That is inevitable. There is no way to solve the nation’s long-term debt problem without reducing the growth rate of federal health care spending.

Using Medicare Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities and Challenges

Background: With the introduction of Part D drug benefits, Medicare began to collect information on diagnoses, treatments, and clinical events for millions of beneficiaries.

Structure of Risk Adjustment for Private Plans in Medicare

Medicare bases its risk adjustment method for Medicare Advantage plan payment on the relative costs of treating various diagnoses in traditional Medicare.

An Economic History of Medicare Part C

Context: Twenty-five years ago, private insurance plans were introduced into the Medicare program with the stated dual aims of (1) giving beneficiaries a choice of health insurance plans beyond the fe

Children Without a State: A Global Human Rights Challenge

The first book to address children's statelessness and lack of legal status as a human rights issue. Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the world, with a special need for the protecti

The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

We examine provider responses to the Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS), which simultaneously reduced marginal reimbursement and increased average reimbu