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New Evidence Suggests Even Larger Medicare Advantage Overpayments
Update 2/2/24: We have updated our estimate for MA overpayments due to new research into coding intensity and favorable selection from MedPAC . We...
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Time to Fix Medicaid Financing Schemes
Medicaid is currently the largest health care program in the United States, covering 93 million lower-income adults and children and accounting for...
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Congress is Trying to Have it Both Ways with Telehealth
6/26/23 Update: The Congressional Budget Office released a cost estimate of the legislation allowing telehealth to be covered pre-deductible in HDHPs...
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Key Takeaways from the Site-based Invoicing and Transparency Enhancement (SITE) Act
This week Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and John Kennedy (R-LA) introduced the Site-based Invoicing and Transparency Enhancement...
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6 Ways to Reduce Health Care Costs
By JOSH GORDON AND DARBIN WOFFORD This journal article originally appeared in the Milken Institute Review . Here’s some old news that, depressingly...
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Event Recap: Checking in on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds
On April 4, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted "Checking in on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds." The event featured...
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Paragon Health Institute Releases Proposals to Lower Health Care Costs
The Paragon Health Institute recently released a report highlighting 12 options to decrease federal health care spending. The report, titled “Turning...
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Analysis of the 2023 Medicare Trustees' Report
The Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare programs have released their annual reports for 2023, updating the financial state of the programs’...
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Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release 2023 Reports
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees just released their annual reports on the financial status of the Social Security and Medicare programs over...
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Time is Running Out to Save Social Security and Medicare
Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds. The Trustees project that Medicare’s...
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CRFB Welcomes Plan to Put Medicare Solvency On the Table
Today, President Biden previewed a new plan to improve the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund. The plan would increase the...
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Good Management of Medicare Advantage is Not a “Cut” to Medicare
Although politicians often speak of wanting to target “waste, fraud, and abuse” in government programs, there is currently an effort to prevent the...