Medicare patients continue to experience harm during hospital stays, even after a decade of intensive efforts to decrease provider-caused adverse events, according to a report from
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Just pass a law
President Biden outlined his strategy to deal with inflation. Here is one element. Lower prescription drug and healthcare costs: The administration called on Congress to
First dollar coverage
In 2014, Congress passed legislation – Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 – that included a prohibition against “first-dollar” Medigap coverage (i.e. Plan
Why Medicare appears less costly and you may be helping
Hospitals’ average prices for commercial payers only slightly distanced themselves from Medicare rates from 2012 to 2019, although broad variations spotted between individual geographic regions
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