Last week, with little fanfare, the federal government made public all of the “Part B” Medicare expenditures from 2012. For the first time, it became possible to view – by physician – the types of services being billed, the number of each type, the charges, and the actual payment from Medicare. Continue reading Medicare Physician Payments
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The Bending Cost Curve
I attended a really interesting conference last week on “Innovation in Health Care” that was cosponsored by The Advisory Board and the Aspen Institute. It was a one-day affair in Washington, attended by about 1000 people from around the country who were treated to talks by a star studded cast that included HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Peter Orszag , Jeffrey Brenner, former US Senators Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, and a guy with more titles than I can count, Patrick Conway. Continue reading The Bending Cost Curve