Reimbursement News, In Brief
Executive Summary
Some patient groups ask Congress not to consider Medicaid-style rebates for dual-eligibles and low-income subsidy recipients in Medicare Part D; 72% of office-based physicians are using electronic health records; disparities in Medicaid EHR adoption, based on allocation of incentive payments, mirror those found in Medicare EHR adoption.
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In a Health Affairs Blog post, former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin takes issue with a recent article arguing that mandated Part D rebates would not lead to major Medicare premium increases or otherwise shift costs to Part D beneficiaries as well as employers.
Mandated Part D Rebates Would Not Lead To Higher Premiums, Cost Shifts, MedPAC Commissioner Argues
In an online Health Affairs article, MedPAC commissioner Jack Hoadley and co-author Richard Frank rebut arguments against mandatory rebates on Medicare Part D drugs.
Part D Mandatory Rebates Included In Speaker Boehner’s “Fiscal Cliff” Offer
House Speaker John Boehner made an offer to President Obama Dec. 3 to base a resolution to the looming fiscal cliff on a proposal by the president’s deficit commission headed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, a proposal that included a mandatory rebate on drugs used in Medicare Part D.