Medicare Part B

MedPAC Posts Agenda for March 2-3 Meeting

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has posted the agenda for its next public meeting, which will be held on Monday, March 2 and Tuesday, March 3. The subjects scheduled for consideration during MedPAC’s next two-day session are: mandated report: Assessment of the Medicare ground ambulance data collection system access to hospice and certain complex palliative services for beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease and beneficiaries with cancer provider participation in Medicare Advantage networks considerations for implementing Medicare Advantage encounter data in risk adjustment the complexity of Medicare enrollment decisions for beneficiaries Medicare Part B premium payment basics Go here to see [...]

joe2026-02-26T16:20:05-05:00February 27, 2026|Medicare, Medicare reimbursement policy|

MedPAC Meets

The government agency that advises Congress on Medicare payment matters met publicly in Washington, D.C. last week. During the virtual meeting, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed: addressing high prices of drugs covered under Medicare Part B initial findings from MedPAC's analysis of Part D data on drug rebates and discounts segmentation in the stand-alone Part D prescription drug plan market leveraging Medicare policies to address social determinants of health an approach to streamline and harmonize Medicare’s portfolio of alternative payment models aligning fee-for-service payment rates across ambulatory settings MedPAC is an independent congressional agency that advises Congress [...]

iqtsupport2022-04-12T06:00:14-04:00April 12, 2022|Alternative payment models, Medicare, MedPAC|

MedPAC Delivers Annual Report to Congress

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has issued its annual report and recommendations to Congress. The major issues addressed in the report include: implementing a unified payment system for post-acute care reforming Medicare payment for drugs under Part B redesigning the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) and strengthening advanced alternative payment models using premium support for Medicare the relationship between clinician services and other Medicare services payments from drug and device manufacturers to physicians and teaching hospitals in 2015 the medical device industry stand-alone emergency departments hospital and skilled nursing facility use by Medicare beneficiaries who reside in nursing facilities the [...]

iqtsupport2017-06-21T06:00:29-04:00June 21, 2017|Medicare, Medicare post-acute care, MedPAC|