tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 8

LEGISLATION: Broad Assault Coming On Health Costs - Or Else

Find out what budget-saving tricks are up CMS' sleeve Neither Medicare nor the American healthcare system as a whole will look fiscally sustainable in a few decades unless a variety of cost-containing, value-producing changes come into play. That was the message of an expert panel of economists Jan. 31 at the World Health Care Congress of healthcare businesspeople in Washington, DC.What does that mean to providers and others with a stake in Medicare? "Big changes are coming," said Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, "No matter what you might think at the moment."While most current talk...

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