by Mary Lee & Anderson Xia | May 16, 2013 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON — Senators and medical professionals agreed Tuesday that the Medicare payment system must reward quality of care, not the number of procedures administered. The Senate Finance Committee examined ways the nation’s guaranteed health care program could...
by Mary Lee & Anderson Xia | May 9, 2013 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama made expanding the pool of insured Americans and guaranteeing coverage for those with pre-existing conditions cornerstones of his health care reform effort. The resulting Affordable Care Act might well have been written for...
by Mary Lee & Anderson Xia | May 8, 2013 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Medical practitioners and experts offered ideas to legislators Tuesday on how to alter the Medicare physician payment formula, something that continually plagues the medical community. Operating on a fee-for-service payment model, Medicare doctors...
