I cracked open the latest MedPAC report to read its recommendations on hospital readmissions. There wasn’t much new in it beyond what I could infer
In Competitive Bidding in Medicare: Who Benefits From Competition? (AJMC, ungated), Zirui Song, Mary Beth Landrum, and Michael Chernew examine how plan bids in the current Medicare
In JAMA, Zirui Song, David Cutler, and Michael Chernew estimate some of the consequences of the Ryan-Wyden premium support plan for Medicare. Nationally, in 2009, the
Austin is on vacation, but I feel compelled to give him a victory lap nonetheless: The Obama administration said Wednesday that it would vastly expand
Roger Feldman, Robert Coulam, and Bryan Dowd* previously had estimated that a competitive bidding premium support program for Medicare could save 8 percent of Medicare spending (pdf).
A reader wrote me with the following question pertaining to competitive bidding. If an insurance company that could provide medicare for say $500 a month
Today, Rep. Hensarling, the GOP co-chair of the supercommittee, offered the Domenici-Rivlin plan for Medicare as a way forward in negotiations with Democrats. John Parkinson,
As noted in today’s Reflex, the AMA opposes “active purchasing” of insurance plans by the ACA exchanges. By the end of this post, you’ll understand why the
Aaron and Austin discuss competitive bidding and, at the end, how it relates (or not) to Mitt Romney’s Medicare reform plan. More competitive bidding links
A long-ish post on a very important issue. Quick review: Under competitive bidding among Medicare plans, private health insurers and traditional Medicare would offer bids
Before anyone, including me, gets too starry eyed about competitive bidding among Medicare plans, it’s worth repeating its limitations. Igor Volsky expressed some recently, including
Here’s a very brief PDF summary of the Domenici-Rivlin Medicare proposal to the supercommittee. Note, in particular, that the proposal is based on competitive bidding among
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