A Medicare payment-advisory panel said Friday that Congress should move to cut payments to hospitals for many services that can be provided at lower cost in doctors’ offices.
Medicare is reducing fees for diabetes care supplies, and beneficiaries are likely to be charged less, too.
Medicare is reducing fees for diabetes care supplies, and beneficiaries are likely to be charged less, too.
More reaction to a front-page article, including letters from a leading health insurer, an anesthesiologists’ group and a radiologist.
Why aren’t more low-income seniors applying for subsidized coverage of prescription drugs?
Why aren’t more low-income seniors applying for subsidized coverage of prescription drugs?
Dr. Arnold S. Relman of Harvard Medical School writes that it “will depend on its ability to control costs while providing universal care.”
News flash: Social Security and Medicare aren’t doomed!
A stronger economy and slower growth in health spending has helped strengthen the financial outlook for the federal insurance program, the Obama administration said on Friday.
The findings by researchers at Harvard Medical School go against the notion that immigrants are a drain on federal health care spending.
An agenda for an almost-movement.
Facing persistent, lethal neglect of a basic precaution, hospitals are using high-tech sensors, training hand-washing coaches and issuing gold stars.
Public awareness is raised, as are concerns about insurance coverage for preventive mastectomies.
The Bayonne Medical Center charged Medicare the highest amounts in the country for nearly one-quarter of the most common hospital treatments, a New York Times analysis of 2011 data shows.
Consumers need a clearer picture of costs to make rational decisions about medical care.