Sets forth methods to pay institutional providers of care and health professionals for services.
While drug benefits are new and difficult to design, Congress has decades of experience tinkering with the formulas used to pay providers.
The program covers a range of services, but only pays providers within San Francisco.
As the national carriers build out their networks, they have less need to pay rural providers for roaming privileges.
The only way it can control costs is to clamp down on prices it pays providers.
A little-noticed change in Federal tax law may curb the widespread but illegal practice of paying child-care providers off the books.
The same is true for millions of people who apply for Medicare reimbursement after they pay physicians and other medical providers.
The majority of Americans could afford to pay providers for routine health care.
The poor should be subsidized but should still pay providers directly.
However, the money to pay providers for the care they have delivered can't seem to make it out of Albany.
