The commission's summer report contains four chapters of interest to Congress: (1) recommendations for increased transparency in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) financing, (2) tools that states can use to optimize state Medicaid agency contracts (SMACs), (3) enrollment trends in Medicare Savings...
This week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the independent legislative branch agency tasked with analyzing the Medicare program for the purpose of offering insight and advice into the program for policymakers, published its annual Data Book.
The MedPAC Data Book, "Health Care Spending in the Medicare Program," is a...
