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Request for Information: Strengthening the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
Read moreOn August 21, 2026 the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and Director of... -
CBO Analysis Suggests $1 Trillion in Medicare Advantage Overpayments
Read moreA recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis projects that the federal government will pay between 5% and 10% more for Medicare Advantage (MA)... -
New Approaches to Social Security Benefit Taxation
Read moreSocial Security’s retirement fund is on course to go insolvent in just six years; a few months later, Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund is... -
CMS Proposes Site-Neutral and 340B Reform
Read moreThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released its proposed Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule that... -
Saving MEDICARE Act Would Dramatically Reduce MA Overpayments
Read moreRepresentative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and 44 cosponsors recently introduced the Saving Medicare Enrollees from Deceptive Insurers and Creating Ample... -
Event Recap: Checking in on the Social Security & Medicare Trust Funds
Read moreOn June 10, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted an online webinar, Checking in on the Social Security & Medicare Trust Funds. The... -
Analysis of the 2026 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Medicare and Social Security Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the trust funds, showing both face serious... -
Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release 2026 Reports
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today, finding that both programs have significantly worse financial outlooks... -
The Next Doc Fix is Coming
Read moreCongress has now kicked off this year’s “Doc Fix” process, an increasingly annual occurrence where they provide ad-hoc pay increases to physicians... -
Ways & Means Zeroes in on Hospital Costs
Read moreLast week, the Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing on the high cost of hospital care with leaders of various health systems. Over the course of... -
CMS Abandons Efforts to Rein in Medicare Costs
Read moreAfter proposing meaningful reforms to reduce Medicare Advantage (MA) overpayments in January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)... -
Medicare Advantage in the Hot Seat
Read moreRecent actions from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could help reduce the estimated $1.3 trillion in Medicare Advantage (MA)...