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Medicare should discourage overuse, underuse, and misuse of health care services.
Medicare beneficiaries can be confused by the complexities of the program’s benefits and payment rules, as well as by the broad array of choices involving
Congress should increase the program budget for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administration, including beneficiary education and
CMS should strengthen its methods for evaluating the performance of Medicare administrative contractors.
Publicly reported information about consumers’ experiences with their care should be standardized and collected by an independent external entity with acce
Until the 2006 introduction of Medicare Part D (Drug Coverage), Medicare covered very few prescriptions outside of hospital settings.
Congress should grant Medicare the statutory authority to use its purchasing power to obtain drug price discounts directly from pharmaceutical manufacturer
State and federal policymakers should ensure that the duals demonstrations designed to test the integration of Medicare and Medicaid services (including th