HHS Inspector General Outlines 2015 Oversight Agenda
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of [...]
Insurance Expansion Won’t Hurt Access to Primary Care, Study Finds
Fears that significant increases in the numbers of Americans with [...]
States Seek to Reduce ER Use Among Medicaid Patients
Even though the rate at which non-Medicaid recipients inappropriately use [...]
Administration Blocks No-Hospitals Insurance Plans
Health insurance plans that do not include hospital benefits fail [...]
Proposal for Improving Medicare Physician Payments
Last year, Congress considered shifting Medicare’s payments to physicians from [...]
MedPAC Looks at New Quality Measures
Amid Medicare’s effort to encourage hospitals to improve the quality [...]
MedPAC Calls for Equalization of Some Post-Acute-Care Payments
The agency that advises Congress on Medicare payment policies has [...]
MedPAC Looks at Short Hospital Stays
The independent agency that advises Congress on Medicare payment issues [...]
Medicare Seeks to Put Pedal to the Metal on Quality-Related Payments and Care
The federal government has unveiled its intention to pursue a [...]
MedPAC Mulls Payment Per Beneficiary for Primary Care
At a recent meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission [...]
