In the National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling, a subset of Medicare providers will receive a single payment for an episode of acute…
The 2011 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods was convened by the Social Security
Advisory Board in September 2010 to review the…
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…
The first book to address children's statelessness and lack of legal status as a human rights issue.
Children are among the most…
Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012. This cut…