Healthcare DIVE March 13, 2020
Dive Brief:
- The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommends increasing payments for hospitals, long-term care facilities and dialysis services while decreasing payments for home health and inpatient rehabilitation in 2021. The group also reiterates a suggestion to require ambulatory surgical center to report cost data, according to its annual March report to Congress.
- Medicare Advantage enrollment grew 10% from November 2018 to November 2019, with 34% of Medicare beneficiaries now in MA plans. That number is only projected to increase, the report published Friday showed.
- In a review of hospital consolidation requested by Congress, MedPAC research showed the decadeslong trend toward consolidation has generally led to higher commercial prices. It also found that greater market power leads to high non-Medicare...
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