Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
It looks like Congress may well include a two-year fix for Medicare physician reimbursement in a sort-of catch-all bill focused on extending the payroll tax cut. At least that’s the way it looks this morning. The Medicare SGR formula/process was … Continue reading Medicare physician reimbursement – a two year fix?
Read More...There’s going to be a LOT coming out in the next two months about Medicare, so it may help to know a few things about the program to help put it in context. – We spent over a half-trillion dollars … Continue reading Medicare – quick factoids
Read More...Everyone seems convinced there’s a ton of fraud in Medicare. And they may be right. What there wasn’t, for far too long, was much emphasis on finding and prosecuting the criminals stealing from taxpayers by defrauding Medicare. Well, looks like … Continue reading Medicare Fraud – what’s really happening
Read More...While the news this morning is not good, I still don’t think Congress will fail to raise the debt limit; the economic consequences would be catastrophic, and there’s too much political risk for either party to allow it to go … Continue reading The Debt Limit, Medicare, and Medicaid
Read More...There’s been a good deal of complaining about the future costs of health care under reform, some of it justified, some not. In particular, the release of the Medicare Trustee’s report last week noted that the date when Medicare intake … Continue reading Health Reform’s impact on Medicare
Read More...Last week we saw two starkly different views of how to control future costs of Medicare. President Obama is seeking to use the negotiating and regulatory power of government, while Rep Ryan wants to abandon any pretense that government can … Continue reading Controlling Medicare costs – Obama v Ryan
Read More...Rep Paul Ryan’s (R WI) Plan to address the deficit relies heavily on private health insurers to solve the seemingly-intractable health care cost inflation problem. Today we’ll finish the discussion of his solution for Medicare. Ryan’s Medicare plan does include … Continue reading The Ryan deficit plan, part two – shifting cost to Medicare recipients
Read More...The ongoing and far-from-resolved debate about whether or not health reform will erduce costs has generated lots of fear-mongering, wildly inflated claims, and far too little intelligent discussion. Jonathan Cohn’s attempt to add a bit more intelligence to that discussion … Continue reading Health reform and Medicare cost reduction
Read More...Last night the Senate passed a bill postponing the cut for Medicare physician reimbursement that was scheduled to take effect at the end of this year. When signed by President Obama, the 13 month fix will freeze Medicare physician fees … Continue reading The fix is in – for Medicare physician reimbursement…for now
Read More...Yesterday the Senate voted to prevent implemtation of the pending 23% cut in Medicare’s physician reimbursement – until December 31. The House will likely do the same. Then, unless congress passes a bill that fixes – or postpones another cut … Continue reading Medicare physician reimbursement – the can gets kicked again
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