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Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Part 3: Adding A Lookback To Budget Neutrality
This is part three of a three-part article on policy issues in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The topics covered ...
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US Health Care’s Looming Austerity Crisis
In the coming years, the mismatch of revenue growth and expense growth for providers of health care will result in ...
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Health Insurance Affordability: Balancing Premiums And Out-Of-Pocket Costs
When considering health insurance reform options, it’s important to understand how cost sharing interacts with premiums and ...
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Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Part 1: The Role Of A Technical Expert Panel
This is part one of a three-part article on policy issues in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The topics covered include: ...
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It’s Time To Repeal The 190-Day Lifetime Limit On Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment
Even though serious mental illness is no less chronic a condition than diabetes, Medicare beneficiaries are currently limited ...
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Senate GOP Makes Last-Minute Health Care Changes To Budget Bill Ahead Of Scheduled Motion To Proceed
Late in the evening of June 27, 2025, Senate Republicans released the full text of the latest version of the One Big ...
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When Public Data Disappear: What We Lose And Why It Matters
Efforts to remove, restructure, or completely eliminate public health information from federal websites undermine the ...
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Recent Experience Shows National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Create Enormous Administrative Inefficiencies
The US health care system is already larded with bureaucracy; administrative costs account for nearly a third of total health ...
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Congress Should Remove The Rare Disease Carve-Out From Medicare Drug Price Negotiation, Not Expand It
Expansion of the Medicare drug price negotiation rare disease drug carve-out would unnecessarily limit the number of drugs ...
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HHS Finalizes ACA Marketplace Rule, Part 2: Income And SEP Verification, ‘Failure To Reconcile,’ And More
The final rule covers a wide range of topics. This article discusses the final rule’s changes to impose new income and ...
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Public Health Law Vacuums: A Present And Future Threat
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dangerous trend: the intentional creation of public health law vacuums, in which no ...
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Podcast: Uché Blackstock on The Multi-Faceted Policies to Achieve Health Equity
Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Uché Blackstock, CEO and Founder of Advancing Health Equity (AHE), on her experiences ...