The AHA urged the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to update payment recommendations for hospitals, post-acute care ...

IRFs. During the December 2024 meeting, MedPAC commissioners discussed recommending a 7% reduction to fiscal year (FY) 2026 IRF PPS payments. AHA disagrees with this draft recommendation and instead ...

Health insurance companies selling private Medicare Advantage plans in the US would see a greater increase in payments in 2026 than in the current year if a proposal released Friday is adopted by the ...

MA plans are substantially overpaid compared to traditional Medicare. Much of these overpayments benefit the MA plans rather ...

The privatized version of Medicare doesn’t just provide worse care than traditional Medicare—it also rips off American ...

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) seemed favorable Thursday to a proposed recommendation to ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the independent government agency that advises Congress on the Social Security program, has recommended that lawmakers tie Medicare payments to doctors to ...

Commissioners on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission largely supported recommendations to increase pay for physicians and other health professionals by slightly less than inflation ...

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy recently announced their intention to cut $500 billion in federal spending through their new ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on Thursday reviewed a draft recommendation calling for a 3% reduction to traditional, Fee-for-Service Medicare. It reflects a trend dating to at least ...

Proskauer’s Whitney Phelps and Jacquelyn Daniel say the health-care industry will likely see a shift in focus from equity to ...

For enrollees with similar health profiles, Medicare Advantage costs 22 percent more, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Perhaps that’s because, as the Journal’s investigations ...