Medicare and ambulance services

MedPAC’s commissioners held their latest public meetings on Thursday, March 6 and Friday, March 7.   The subjects on the meetings’ agenda were: reforming Medicare physician fee schedule updates and improving the accuracy of relative payment rates reducing beneficiary cost-sharing for Medicare-covered outpatient services at critical access hospitals Medicare insurance agents Medigap mandated report: payment for ground ambulance services examining home health care use among Medicare Advantage enrollees institutional special needs plans reducing beneficiary cost-sharing for Medicare-covered outpatient services at critical access hospitals Go here for summaries of the issues and key points and links to the presentations delivered by MedPAC staff and [...]