- Issue:January 2010
Pilot Project Excludes Medicare Payments for Primary Care
Capping off a year of hard-fought debate over reforming healthcare, and specifically health insurance, the Mayo Clinic made holiday-season headlines with the initiation of a 2-year pilot project involving a 5-physician family practice clinic in Glendale, Arizona, that has opted out of accepting Medicare payments for primary care starting January 1. Initially announced in October, the decision to temporarily stop accepting Medicare reimbursement for primary car
- Issue:January 2010
Increases in total national healthcare costs have slowed
along with the rest of the economy, but health spending continues to grow
faster than gross domestic product (GDP). New National Health Expenditure
Accounts (NHEA) data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS) show that health spending in the United States grew by 4.4% in 2008, and
the portion of GDP devoted to healthcare continues to increase. Meanwhile, the
number of new pharmaceuticals approved by the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) remained stable in 2009, and spending on pr
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