CMS chief says outcomes-based pay can help patients while finally ending physicians' box-checking frustration.
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2025 health care agenda: Medicare Advantage abuses
Author(s)Richard Payerchin
Rep. Greg Murphy, MD (R-North Carolina), discusses reforms he hopes Congress will consider this year.
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Medicare Advantage needs reform because some insurance companies are upcoding patient conditions to get more money from the federal government. That is wrong and
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