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Accounting for one-fifth of national health spending, Medicare plays a major role in structuring our nation’s health system.REF Like other fee-for-service (FFS) health plans over the past half-century, Medicare has failed at both cost control and integrating and coordinating benefits for retirement-age Americans.

Accused of bilking Medicare and breaking anti-kickback laws by the Department of Justice, Modern Vascular has closed some clinics.

/PRNewswire/ -- UpStream, a leading value-based primary care services and technology company, today shared that they have been selected as one of the...

Medicare reforms are needed to secure value for patients, enhance the program’s solvency, and reduce its burden on current and future taxpayers.

This Week in Washington: President Biden announces ending date of COVID-19 PHE, House begins investigations into COVID-19 origins; State of the Union scheduled for Feb. 7...

This Week in Washington: House and Senate not in session, U.S. reaches debt-ceiling limit...

The House-Senate conference committee outline agreement this weekguts any serious long-term reform of the troubled Medicare programwhile proposing the single largest entitlement expansion in theprogram's history. Instead of enacting real reform at a datecertain and in time to accommodate the retirement of the massivebaby-boom generation, key congressional leaders are insteadproposing a limited "demonstration project" to test seriousMedicare reform, confined to a few areas of the c...

This Week in Washington: 118th Congress begins, House finally chooses Speaker...

A cardiologist who formerly treated patients at National Park Medical Center has agreed to settle allegations of falsely submitting claims to the Medicare Program for placing cardiac stents in patients where it was medically unnecessary, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee said Thursday in a news release.

(Archived document, may contain errors) No. 99 May 6,1996 WHAT MEDICARES ADVISERS ARE TELLING CONGRESS ABOUT MEDICARE REFORM