Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Medicare Prices Shape Payment Formulas for the Entire Health Care System

“Our results suggest that Medicare’s decisions are far more influential than you may imagine,” said Joshua Gottlieb, an economist at the University of British Columbia. His research shows that a $1 change in the price that Medicare pays yields a $1.30 change in what private insurers pay. What happens if the government gets those prices […]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/medicare-prices-shape-payment-formulas-for-the-entire-health-care-system/

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