Congress's Medicare Financing Mess is Bigger Than You Think

The financing of health care for Medicare recipients currently comes from three broad categories: payroll taxes on workers, general revenue transfers, and ...

Medicare - Tax Policy Center

TaxVox. Congress's Medicare Financing Mess is Bigger Than You Think. February 6, 2023. TaxVox. The Effects Of Using New Tax Revenue To Shore Up Medicare's ...

Heartbreaking Medicare cuts start to hit home in Congress

They need support in Congress to back big changes to a broken system that is in line to cut the payments that support doctors' practices by 2.8% ...

How Medicare Pays Physicians Is Stupid. Congress Must Change It.

The implications of Medicare's current payment strategy extend far beyond immediate inefficiencies. They will spiral into a deeper healthcare ...

A Medicare-Medicaid maze snares poor, sick Americans. Is a fix in ...

Senators promise relief to patients stuck in the middle of a $500 billion mess ... People qualify as "dually eligible" because of their low ...

Why Congress Should Change How Medicare Pays Physicians

How We Got Into This Mess ... The problem began with the Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, a law designed to keep total payments to physicians ...

Medicare Advantage works. Why is President Biden attacking It?

We've been down this road before. In the late 1990s, to save money, Congress reduced payment rates to Medicare Advantage (then called “Medicare+ ...

Ending Overpayment in Medicare Advantage

A new Center for American Progress analysis finds that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are overpaid by 22 to 39 percent.

The only cure for Medicare payment mess is wholesale reform

Congress again has failed to stop Medicare physician pay cuts. Comprehensive, long-term changes that protect patients' access to care are ...

Trump's next moves as president on Medicare, Social ... - Fortune

Trump insists he would protect Social Security and Medicare, popular programs geared toward older Americans and among the biggest pieces of the ...

By repeatedly denying claims, Medicare Advantage plans threaten ...

Medicare payments to the plans will total $27 billion more in 2023 than if patients were enrolled in traditional Medicare, the report projected.

Medicare Works.Medicare Advantage Wastes.

MA costs more than traditional Medicare, but doesn't provide better health outcomes or more affordable care - just wasted money. Lawsuits Attack ...

Medicare Trustees Express Concern about Insufficient Physician ...

The year's report estimates that the HI Trust Fund, which covers costs under Medicare Part A, will be depleted by 2028, two years later than ...

Congressional Republicans Want Big Cuts to Social Security

Donald Trump has urged Republicans not to cut a single penny from Social Security and Medicare; similarly, Ron DeSantis has said that he is “not ...

Medicare Payment Policy - MedPAC

Dear Madam President and Mister Speaker: I am pleased to submit the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's March 2024 Report to the. Congress: ...

Deceptive Marketing Practices Flourish in Medicare Advantage

1 The Senate Finance Committee. Majority Staff (hereinafter “Committee”) launched an inquiry in August 2022, collected information on marketing ...

Trustees Report & Trust Funds - CMS

The Medicare Program is the second-largest social insurance program in the U.S., with 66.7 million beneficiaries and total expenditures of ...

Understanding Medicare Advantage Payment - Urban Institute

Enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) will soon be larger than enrollment in ... But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people ...

Meaningful Medicare Physician Payment Reform: Is this the year?

We will have to wait and see whether such a proposal is in the President's Budget. But even if it is, we are still facing a significant uphill ...

Hearing on Medicare and Social Security Solvency | C-SPAN.org

[INAUDIBLE] IS THIS ON? I GUESS IT IS. OKAY THE MEDICARE TRUSTEES REPORT STATES THE TRUST ...