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Organization dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of Health Policy issues for the policy making community, the media and the surrounding stakeholders in the d. C. Area and beyond. So welcome this morning to those who are joining us live on cspan2 and watching from home. And before we begin, i just want to make a quick note about the dates for the next several breakfasts. Well be doing them about once a month. The next one will be march 29th, and we will be talking about pandemic preparedness. So quite different from todays topic. Today we are delving into the broad topic of shift...

What could we do, how could we work with Medicare Advantage plans and one way might be if a plan, if a beneficiary goes out of network, they have innetwork cost sharing but the plan reimbursing the out out of network hospital. Historically in particular providers have said no to Medicare Advantage because theyve been able to do so. Thank you. I saw three hands go up at once so we will go sarah and then down the road. Sarah with bloomberg law, can somebody comment on the idea that theres Cost Shifting from medicare to private plans . Seems to be assumed that there is but then there seems to be ...

Rallies weve tried to mount lately. Dow only 220 points s p pole vaulting 2 or 3 . Nasdaq rocketing 1. 53 . And roll over at the bell. But now the hard part begins. We know the Chinese Government has put through a whole bunch of measures to stabilize the market. We seem to be well, i never want to say we are at the curtain closing part of the greek tragedy with the lesser of two evils at least for the stock market might prevail. Still one more bailout that could be destined to bailout a year or two from now. Doesnt matter. In the shortterm a resolution any resolution is positive especially whe...

Is a five day difference. This is amazing coincidence to me. I think it is more than a coincidence. I want to put up on a screen a directive sent out by the chief Technology Officer of the irs. If we could get that on the screen. And this is the directive that went out to managers, is that correct, telling them not to reace the erase the data. Correct. This went out on may 22nd, 2013. When were the taped erased at the irs. On or about march 4th, 2014. So about eight months later. And is this if we look at the highlighted part on here it said do not destroy, wipe, reuse any of the existing back...

We cant lose ground. The new treatments can be extremely expensive and cost as much as 1,000 a pill. I understand the v. A. Has been able to negotiate with the Drug Companies to a lower cost. And ive heard estimates that v. A. Is instead paying closer to 600 a bill, is that correct . I you may not have a answer. I would like to not have to answer that question. We work very slowly and collaboratively with the manufacturers of those drugs and have been able to reach attractive arrangements for the continued purchase of those drugs. And we continue to have those conversations. My what im curious...