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Medicare Part D - House Votes To Cut Medicare Payments To Insurers Instead Of


House Votes To Cut Medicare Payments To Insurers Instead Of Doctors (Medical News Today)
US House representatives set aside party politics on Tuesday and voted by a large majority to postpone the 1st July planned cut in payments to doctors who treat patients under the federal Medicare program and to pay for it by shaving billions off reimbursements to private insurers that contract with Medicare to provide healthcare for the elderly and disabled.

New Study Says Generic Drugs Now Own 63% of Medicare Part D Market - Up from 50% Less Than Three Years Ago (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Wolters Kluwer, today released the results of a study that looks at key statistical outcomes of the Medicare Part D prescription drug program.

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