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Medicare Utilization To Trend Up, Actuary Forecasts

Published on Thu Feb 23, 2017

Projections for Medicare spending are going up, and that means you should prepare for your Medicare reimbursement to likely go down as policy- and lawmakers look for places to trim Medicare outlays. Medicare spending growth is projected to have been 5 percent in 2016 and is expected to average 7.1 percent over the full projection period 2016- 2025, says the [...]
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