Independent Payment Advisory Board news and information

New year, same resolution. Just weeks into the 113th Congress, GOP lawmakers are making attempts to dismantle the 2010 healthcare law, and one of those efforts has bipartisan support.
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Opponents of the healthcare reform law's Independent Payment Advisory Board warn that its unilateral decisions could be disastrous for the industry and Medicare patients. But if Medicare spending keeps going the way it has the past few years, the board will never hold a meeting.
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An analysis by Modern Healthcare would seem to bear out the contention that something is amiss with value-based purchasing, at least as it is currently structured.
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Two obstetricians who strongly oppose the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will lead the House's GOP Doctors Caucus after the new 113th Congress is sworn in early next month.
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Here's to diving below the overheated healthcare rhetoric. It's widely assumed that tonight's vice presidential debate will be a health policy wonkfest (with zingers) that submerges deeply into the numerous conflicting approaches of the two presidential tickets.
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Do you catch more advocacy groups with honey than vinegar? One House Republican is trying to win over a key supporter of the federal healthcare law.
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Calling the 2010 healthcare law “unworkable, unpopular and unaffordable,” a physician lawmaker drew applause from a lunch audience at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., when he said it's time for the country to regain its freedom, repeal the 2010 healthcare law and...
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There must be something about the July heat in Washington that gets House Republicans fired up about the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a yet-to-be appointed panel the 2010 healthcare reform law created to control the per-capita growth rate in Medicare.
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Days before House members vote on legislation to overturn the 2010 healthcare law, the top Senate Republican has called on his Democrat colleagues to join the repeal effort, while a House Democrat says only a small percentage of people would pay anything for refusing to buy health insurance.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act protects the expansion of healthcare insurance to the uninsured and preserves important healthcare improvements that will benefit countless Americans. The law ends insurance company denials because...
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