The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) report (PDF) estimates the government will pay MA plans about $86 billion ...

Medicare physician pay should be increased yearly, with the increase based on the Medicare Economic Index (MEI), a measure of healthcare inflation, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) will recommend Congress bump Medicare pay rates for hospitals in 2026. In a public meeting held Thursday, the group’s commissioners voted in ...

MedPAC, which advises Congress on the Medicare program, has previously mulled tying their pay to inflation, potentially giving doctors more financial predictability and stability.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission advised Congress that inflation is taking a bite out of physician pay and Medicare ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC, has recently voted to recommend that Congress increase 2024 Medicare payments for physicians and other health services. Specifically, MedPAC ...

MedPAC's recommendation that acute care hospitals don't need a significant increase in 2024 Medicare rates is "totally insufficient and out of touch with reality," according to the American ...

Payments to brokers who enroll people in Medicare plans should be reformed so that no preferential treatment is given for enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) instead of fee-for-service Medicare ...

On Thursday, MedPAC concluded that even though doctors’ pay hasn’t kept up with inflation over the last two decades, physicians shouldn’t get more than a minor raise for 2025.

This year, MedPAC reviewed a separate approach to a unified payment system that was created by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

MedPAC Friday recommended a 3% cut to Medicare base payments made to skilled nursing facilities in 2024. The recommendations came on the second day of the advisory group’s December meeting, with ...

Commissioners on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission also largely supported recommendations to increase pay for physicians and other health professionals slightly less than inflation in 2026.