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Injecting Price Competition into Medicare Part B Drugs
Read moreMedicare Part B, which covers outpatient physician services, pays for physician-administered drugs by reimbursing physicians the average cost for each...
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Limiting Evergreening for Name-Brand Prescription Drugs
Read moreTo encourage medical innovation, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants temporary market exclusivities to new brand name drugs. These...
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Two Ways to Reduce Prescription Drug Costs
Read moreHigh and rising prescription drug costs are contributing to the budgetary pressure faced by the federal government. Also, a significant number of...
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Can Medicare Advantage Reforms Save the Trust Fund?
Read moreWe estimate costs will exceed dedicated revenue by about $505 billion over the next decade, leaving a $360 billion solvency gap after accounting for...
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Bipartisan Policy Center Highlights Need for Medicare Trust Fund Solutions
Read moreWith just five years until the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund faces insolvency, lawmakers must address the trust fund's $515 billion net...
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How Much Would the President's Budget Extend Medicare Solvency?
Read moreThe Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund is only five years from insolvency according to both the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the...
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Reducing Private Health Care Costs
Read moreErica Socker and Mark Miller of Arnold Ventures last week penned a blog post in Health Affairs on the need to contain the costs of employer-provided...
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TRUST Act has Bipartisan, Bicameral Reintroduction
Read moreLast week, a bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers reintroduced the TRUST Act, which would establish bipartisan commissions to restore solvency...
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Event Recap: New Ideas to Lower Health Care Costs
Read moreOn Wednesday, March 17, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a virtual event “ New Ideas to Lower Health Care Costs." The event was...
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ARCHIVE: Ten Options to Secure the Medicare Trust Fund
Read moreNote: (6/16/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which includes new projections...
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Capping Hospital Prices
Read moreHigh hospital prices are a leading driver of high and rising costs in the U.S. health care system, resulting in insurance premium growth that outpaces...
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Equalizing Medicare Payments Regardless of Site-of-Care
Read moreCurrently, the Medicare program pays higher rates for medical services performed in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) than it pays for the same...