Health Care

The 340B Drug Pricing Program, enacted in 1992, gives hospitals and other providers serving disproportionately low-income populations the ability to...

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...

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...

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...

Two weeks ago, we discussed results from two different Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs in Medicare, which showed an improvement in...

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...

A new bipartisan bill seeks to drive down prescription drug costs for consumers and the federal government. The Fair Access for Safe and Timely...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released some mixed news on Tuesday for health care reformers -- the results of two different Medicare...

Earlier in the week, we highlighted a portion of CBO Director Doug Elmendorf's presentation at Cornell University highlighting the increased resources...

Prior to the release of CBO's August baseline, we surmised that one of the revisions to the budget would come from Medicare, whose growth in 2014 had...

In a highly anticipated release, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) this week released updated data and projections on National...

The Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Project has kicked off a series of white papers on overcoming the obstacles to delivery system reform with an...