MedPAC June Report To The Congress: Medicare & The Health Care Delivery System

On June 15, 2016, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released this report to the Congress regarding the Medicare health care delivery system. This report fulfills the Commission'’s legislative mandate to evaluate Medicare payment issues and to make recommendations to the Congress. In the nine chapters of this report, MedPAC considers: using competitive pricing to set beneficiary premiums in Medicare; Medicare'’s new framework for paying clinicians; developing a unified payment system for post-acute care; the broader context for Medicare drug spending; Medicare Part B drug and oncology payment issues; improving the Medicare Part D prescription drug program . . .