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CRFB Publishes Updated PREP Plan Outlining Responsible SGR Reform
Read moreIn light of the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump when the most recent doc fix patch expires on March 31, yesterday we released an update to our Paying for...
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The PREP Plan: A Permanent Fix for the Sustainable Growth Rate
Read moreOn April 1 of this year, physicians face a 21 percent cut to their Medicare payments resulting from the return of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)...
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Update: Impending Fiscal Speed Bumps
Read moreCongress approached and addressed the first impending " Fiscal Speed Bump" this week, cleanly funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with...
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Congress May Kick the Can Again on the Doc Fix
Read moreRepeating a story heard many times before, in a speech at a Federation of American Hospitals conference, House Ways And Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI...
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King v. Burwell and the Federal Budget
Read moreThe Supreme Court ruling on the King v. Burwell case being argued before the Court today will have major policy and political ramifications that have...
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Fisher, Gregg, and Weinstein: A Prescription for What's Ailing ACOs
Read moreDr. Elliott Fisher, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), and Dr. James Weinstein penned an op-ed published in Modern Healthcare discussing the need to...
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Dartmouth Summit: Medicare Slowdown At Risk
Read moreOur partners at Fix the Debt co-hosted the Dartmouth Summit to produce recommendations for health care savings. Read the paper below, the two-page...
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Medicare Slowdown at Risk: The Imperative of Fixing ACOs
Read moreToday, Fix the Debt, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, and Dartmouth College released a paper titled Medicare Slowdown at Risk: The Imperative of Fixing...
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The Benefits of Medicare Benefit Redesign
Read moreIn a little over one month, lawmakers will face their second significant Fiscal Speed Bump of the year when the one-year "doc fix" expires. At that...
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Heritage Offers Package of SGR Offsets
Read moreIn two months, lawmakers will encounter their third Fiscal Speed Bump of 2015 when the "doc fix" expires, leading to a 21 percent cut in Medicare...
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Trust Fund Deadlines Are Closing In
Read moreIn addition to updating budget projections, CBO's baseline also looks at the state of various government trust funds over the next ten years. Two of...
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