Health Affairs

The Promise And Pitfalls Of Site-Neutral Payments In Medicare

From 2021 to 2022, Medicare spending increased by 5.9 percent, from $689 billion in 2021 to $944 billion in 2022, reaching 21 percent of total National Health Expenditures. Increased Medicare spending ...
The Heritage Foundation

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Now or Never?

Doctors providing care for Medicare patients face yet another bureaucratic payment cut in 2025. Thankfully, Congress is considering granting them relief. But doctors need more than another temporary ...
Health Affairs

Defaulting Into Medicare Advantage: What It Could Mean For Medicare And Its Beneficiaries

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Heritage Foundation

Time To Fix Doctor’s Medicare Payment Once and for All

Medicare doctors are set to receive a modest pay increase next year. When Congress enacted President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025,” they included a one-time 2.5 percent pay hike for ...
Center for American Progress

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; savings from curbing MA overpayments should be used to improve the Medicare ...
NPR

Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with Medicare or Medicaid

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...
NPR

Medicare's push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors

Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors' medical assistant, who asks how she's doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing ...