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Another Way to Look at the Medicare Slowdown
A recent Health Affairs piece from CRFB's Loren Adler and Adam Rosenberg showed that the prescription drug benefit, Part D, has been responsible for a...
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CBO Report Parses the Reasons for Part D's Slow Growth
The last few months have seen a number of new ideas to save money in Part D of Medicare by encouraging more efficient use of drugs by prescription...
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How CBO Accounts for Anti-Fraud Efforts
Fraud -- along with the closely related waste and abuse -- is too often cited as a big factor affecting our high deficits, even though this is not the...
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Medicare's Slowdown: A Story About Part D
In a Health Affairs blog post, CRFB's Loren Adler and Adam Rosenberg find that most of the recent slowdown in Medicare's costs is attributable to the...
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Could Arbitration Help Control Medicare Part D Costs?
Medicare Part D costs have leveled off in recent years as pharmaceutical innovation has slowed and a number of blockbuster drugs lost patent...
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Is the 340B Program Living Up to Expectations?
The 340B Drug Pricing Program, enacted in 1992, gives hospitals and other providers serving disproportionately low-income populations the ability to...
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How Medicare Part D's Low-Income Subsidy Could Work Better
During the recent slowdown in Medicare spending, the prescription drug portion of the program, Part D, has been the lead actor in the story. The...
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Medicare Registers Fourth-Lowest Growth Rate in Program History in 2014
With today's release of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) final Monthly Budget Review for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014, many will be focused on the...
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NCHC Gives 113th Congress A Failing Grade On Health Care Cost Control...So Far
It is no secret that the 113th Congress has had little success reaching agreement on major policy changes, so its lackluster results on a report card...
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How a Bipartisan Bill Could Improve ACOs
Two weeks ago, we discussed results from two different Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs in Medicare, which showed an improvement in...
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Congress Quietly Acts to Improve Medicare
Congress might not be too popular these days, but quietly a week and a half ago, they passed a small but important bill that could pave the way for...
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New Bipartisan Bill to Lower Prescription Drug Costs
A new bipartisan bill seeks to drive down prescription drug costs for consumers and the federal government. The Fair Access for Safe and Timely...