Health Affairs

The Promise And Pitfalls Of Site-Neutral Payments In Medicare

From 2021 to 2022, Medicare spending increased by 5.9 percent, from $689 billion in 2021 to $944 billion in 2022, reaching 21 percent of total National Health Expenditures. Increased Medicare spending ...
Health Affairs

National Health Expenditures In 2023: Faster Growth As Insurance Coverage And Utilization Increased

Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 percent, ...
The Heritage Foundation

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Now or Never?

Doctors providing care for Medicare patients face yet another bureaucratic payment cut in 2025. Thankfully, Congress is considering granting them relief. But doctors need more than another temporary ...
NPR

Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with Medicare or Medicaid

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...
The Heritage Foundation

Time To Fix Doctor’s Medicare Payment Once and for All

Medicare doctors are set to receive a modest pay increase next year. When Congress enacted President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025,” they included a one-time 2.5 percent pay hike for ...
Center for American Progress

Ending Overpayment in Medicare Advantage

A new Center for American Progress analysis finds that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are overpaid by 22 to 39 percent; savings from curbing MA overpayments should be used to improve the Medicare ...
NPR

Medicare Advantage keeps growing. Tiny, rural hospitals say that's a huge problem

Jason Bleak runs Battle Mountain General Hospital, a small facility in a remote Nevada gold-mining town that he describes as "out here in the middle of nowhere." When several representatives from ...