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Brookings/AEI Economists: Recommendations for government actions to reduce the growth of healthcare costs
Submitted By Anonymous, Created 03/06/2019 - 12:23
- Expanding mandatory bundled-payment programs through federal legislation.
- Reforming Medicare benefit design and Medigap cost sharing.
- Expanding site-neutral Medicare payments.
- Boosting funding for federal anti-trust enforcement.
- Encouraging development of all-payer claims databases through federal action.
- Removing state regulatory barriers to provider market competition.
- Ending surprise out-of-network medical bills through federal legislation.
- Increasing Medicare payments for primary care and reducing them for other services.
- Reforming payment for physician-administered drugs in Medicare Part B.
- Revising Medicare Part D's protected classes and its reinsurance program.
- Offering greater financial incentives in Medicare Part D for use of generic drugs
- 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-...