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Medicare Payments Advisory Board Could Soon Be No More

Published on Fri Feb 08, 2013

You may not need to worry about the Medicare Payments Advisory Board any longer, because Congress is considering repealing the group altogether.  As part of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama created the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a 15-member government agency that had the power to change Medicare policy. Also referred to as a “Super PAC,” the IPAB was considered [...]
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