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Verizon retained its 26th outside lobbying firm this month, hiring former New York Sen. Alfonse D’Amato and his son Chris of Park Strategies, according to a newly filed disclosure.

Hospitals could see a 2% pay increase under Medicare pay advisors' recommendations, but physicians could face a pay freeze.

email article WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should reduce its portfolio of alternative payment models, according to a draft recommendation released by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). "I think there's merit in streamlining the models," commission member Brian DeBusk, PhD, CEO of DeRoyal Industries in Powell, Tennessee, said Thursday at MedPAC's March meeting. Medicare "might welcome the relief; I'm sure they get pressed from a lot of different sides to pursue a lot of different programs." DeBusk was responding to a draft recommendat...

Several commissioners argued that the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's draft recommendation wouldn't go far enough but said it would be a step in the right direction.