Comment Letter to Senate Finance Committee on Real World Experience and Data-Driven Evidence that Improves Care for Medicare Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions
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CQ.com | June 12, 2015 Excerpt: Last week, Medicare officials rebuffed requests to expand use of telemedicine in the highly watched accountable care organization, or ACO, program. And bids to expand use of telemedicine through the House Energy and Commerce’s 21rst Century Cures bill have so far fallen short. But Krista Drobac, executive director of [...]
PwC's Health Research Institute (HRI) issued its annual projection of the coming year’s health care cost growth. Unfortunately, 2016 is no different than previous years. HRI projects a rise of 6.5 percent in medical cost trend, which continues a leveling of the increases we’ve seen since 2007, but it is still an increase. HRI analyzed [...]