Brookings/AEI Economists: Recommendations for government actions to reduce the growth of healthcare costs

1. Expanding mandatory bundled-payment programs through federal legislation.
2. Reforming Medicare benefit design and Medigap cost sharing.
3. Expanding site-neutral Medicare payments.
4. Boosting funding for federal anti-trust enforcement.
5. Encouraging development of all-payer claims databases through federal action.
6. Removing state regulatory barriers to provider market competition.
7. Ending surprise out-of-network medical bills through federal legislation.
8. Increasing Medicare payments for primary care and reducing them for other services.
9. Reforming payment for physician-administered drugs in Medicare Part B.
10. Revising Medicare Part D's protected classes and its reinsurance program.
11. Offering greater financial incentives in Medicare Part D for use of generic drugs
12. Limiting the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored insurance.

Source: Cost control ideas, some controversial, sent to Senate HELP chairman
Source URL: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/payment/cost-control-ideas-...

Printer-friendly versionSend to friendmore...