title: Fixing unfair advantages? Providers hope to see more transparency, networks with Medicare private fee-for-service plans in wake of veto override.
abstract: The new Medicare law delivers a raft of changes. But physicians are cheering the loudest for the rollback of the 10.6% reimbursement cut and the revamping of Medicare Advantage. "It doesn't make any sense that these private plans are paid 17% more than traditional Medicare and don't have to share a dime with the hospitals or physicians," says Albert Fisk, left, a Washington state physician.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lubell
mesh_terms: D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans; D005380:Financing, Government; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011057:Politics; D017149:Private Sector; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States