Medicare to tie salary of doctors to quality and cost of care

Twenty thousand physicians in four Midwest states got an insight of their financial future last month. They found in their e-mail inboxes links to reports from Medicare reflecting the amount their patients cost on average as well as the quality … Continue reading

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2011 Annual Medicare Trustees’ Report

The 2011 Medicare Trustee report estimates that the Medicare Advantage Hospital Insurance trust fund, for inpatient hospital and related care, will go bankrupt in 2024, five years earlier than predicted in the previous report. Also, in the 2011 report, the … Continue reading

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