IPAB: A Backstop To Control Medicare Costs, Or A Power Shift To The Executive Branch?
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
What the health-care-reform-created Independent Payment Advisory Board can and cannot do is clearly in the eyes of the beholder.
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