The New York Times Editorial Board supports cuts to Medicare Advantage (MA), as prescribed by the Affordable Care Act. As the editorial points out, there
Many doctors are disturbed they will be paid less — often a lot less — to care for the millions of patients projected to buy
There’s already been a lot of reaction to Steven Brill’s way-too-long Time cover story on the variation of health care prices across payers and what
Prerequisite: My prior post and, if necessary, the Health Affairs post by Brian Klepper to which it links. Brad DeLong says that the IPAB exists
Someone, presumably fed up with the whole Medicare “doc fix” issue, asked by e-mail, “Why not just massively cut physician payment?” Since I went to
Recently, with some help from a reader and others, I exerted great effort (you have no idea!) to recreate the early history of Medicare hospital
I did my semi-annual office clean up yesterday. That mostly involves going through piles of papers and tossing, filing, or doing something useful with them.
This post is cited in the 18 March 2010 edition of the Health Wonk Review. My post earlier today explained the difference between administrative and
In a prior post I suggested that about 3 million of the current 10 million Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees might lose access to MA plans if
This post originally appeared on The Finance Buff. I am in the middle of a three-post series on the basics of Medicare and its payment
