In the National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling, a subset of Medicare providers will receive a single payment for an episode of acute…
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…
Background: With the introduction of Part D drug benefits, Medicare began to collect information on diagnoses, treatments, and clinical…
Medicare bases its risk adjustment method for Medicare Advantage plan payment on the relative costs of treating various diagnoses in…
We examine provider responses to the Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS), which…
Context: Twenty-five years ago, private insurance plans were introduced into the Medicare program with the stated dual aims of (1) giving…
Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012. This cut…
This is the introduction and summary to the fifth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs
and Retirement Around the World.…