Reimbursement: CONGRESS SEEKS TO PROTECT LOCAL PROVIDERS
Particularly on the Republican side, members of Congress often call for tighter controls on entitlement spending. But when the matter comes down to cutting funds from particular health-care programs and providers in their own neighborhoods, most prove less willing.
Case in point: Last year several House members took the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to task, complaining that MedPAC habitually recommended reimbursement increases — or at least insufficient cuts — that would cost the federal government too much money.
Nevertheless, when MedPAC Chair Glenn Hackbarth showed up at the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee March 9 bearing what ought...
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