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  • Joint Advocacy Conference Brings Urology's Voice To Capitol Hill (21 Mar 2010 08:17)

    ... Medical Director for Ambulatory Clinical Systems at MedStar Health Ronald D. Castellanos, MD, Member, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) Charlie Cook, Founder, The Cook Political Report Peter S. Hussey, PhD, Policy Researcher, RAND ...

  • Humane Society can do South Bend animal control (20 Mar 2010 11:45)

    ... wide diversity of plans. According to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), HMO MA plans do deliver better ... can demonstrate better outcomes. At Congress's request MedPAC is scheduled to release a report that ...

  • High private-payer margins can lead to negative Medicare margins (18 Mar 2010 16:57)

    ... Jeffrey Stensland, Zachary R. Gaumer and Mark E. Miller – are affiliated with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) in Washington, D.C. In "Private-Payer Profits Can Induce Negative Medicare Margins," they examined all ...

  • Cut looms for Medicare payments to doctors (17 Mar 2010 15:01)

    ... who are age 50 to 64, according to the new annual report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, an independent group that advises Congress. Only 6 percent of Medicare beneficiaries looked for ...

  • American Geriatrics Society Names AARP President Jennie Chin Hansen Its New CEO (17 Mar 2010 16:47)

    ... Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, and a federal Commissioner to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). She is also a board officer of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a ...

  • To Preserve Profits, Medicare Advantage Plans Turn to Medical Management (19 Mar 2010 16:55)

    ... a drug benefit and nearly 2 million members in Part D plans. Subsequently, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, a congressional agency that provides independent policy and advice to Congress on issues affecting ...

  • Nelson's 'Gator-aid' going bye-bye (18 Mar 2010 23:31)

    ... Medicare Advantage, "creating a new form of inequity," according to a report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which provides research for Congress. Despite Nelson's continued study, top Democrats in both chambers ...

  • Will It Pass? The Odds on Health Care (16 Mar 2010 22:18)

    ... for Medicare and Medicaid Services) from 1990 to 1992 and the chairwoman of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission from 1997 to 2001. After so many wrong predictions on health care reform, I ...

  • Research roundup: Insurance crisis tough on middle class; Hospitals' profit margins on private patients up (20 Mar 2010 04:50)

    ... profit margins on Medicare patients have fallen," write the authors, who all work for MedPAC.  "A common assumption is that hospitals have little control over their costs and must ...

  • Don't do away with Medicare Advantage (13 Mar 2010 13:19)

    ... pocket. Critics of Medicare Advantage claim that it's too expensive. A study from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission found that the government pays 13 to 17 percent more, on average, for an ...

  • The White House Vs. Big Insurance (15 Mar 2010 20:53)

    ... became health insurance reform long ago," said Gail Wilensky, a former chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. But others say it's a start. "It's not worth killing the bill because we're ...

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