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New in this IssueAgency for Healthcare Research and QualityDisparities in Health Care Quality Among Minority Women Disparities in Healthcare Quality Among Racial and Ethnic Groups: Selected Findings—Updated Healthcare Quality and Disparities in Women: Highlights—Updated MedicareASTRO Urges OMB to Avert the Proposed Medicare Payment Cuts GAO Finds Self-Referrals Increase Medicare Spending |
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MedicareASTRO Urges OMB to Avert the Proposed Medicare Payment CutsThe administration is facing pressure from lawmakers and radiation oncologists to back off a proposed $300 million Medicare payment cut for certain radiation treatments, with the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) telling White House Office of Management and Budget officials that the cuts could lead to clinic closures and consolidations which would decrease patient access to freestanding cancer centers... [see full article] GAO Finds Self-Referrals Increase Medicare SpendingAccording to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, physicians are driving up Medicare costs with self-referrals. Medicare paid $109 million more in 2010 for MRIs and CT services than it would have absent self-referral incentives, the report found... [see full article] |
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