All the recent debate about the future of Medicare is missing a fundamental truth: the odds of any major changes to Medicare are next to…
The Affordable Care Act phases out the Medicare Part D coverage gap over the next decade; however, beneficiaries will continue to face…
Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service towards
episode-based payment, affecting…
Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012. This cut…
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…