Cost Control: Obama Advocates For More Powerful MedPAC
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A proposal to establish an executive-branch commission with authority to set Medicare payment rates and enact reimbursement reforms gained steam in the past week in response to high-profile advocacy from President Obama
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