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After considering public comments on the proposal, the government will issue final rules setting payment rates, effective Jan . 1
The new policy is included in a huge Medicare regulation setting payment rates for thousands of services including arthroscopy, mastectomy and X-rays.
In setting payment rates for doctors and hospitals under the public plan, the bill says, the government should try to reduce racial and ethnic disparities and "geographic variation in the provision of health services".
It said it would ask the Institute of Medicine, a nongovernment advisory group, to consider ways of putting the Dartmouth findings into action by setting payment rates that would punish inefficient hospitals and reward efficient ones.
Although the health care bill signed into law in March did not mention end-of-life planning, the topic was included in a huge Medicare regulation setting payment rates for thousands of physician services.
A major factor behind the high costs is that the United States, unique among industrialized nations, does not generally regulate or intervene in medical pricing, aside from setting payment rates for Medicare and Medicaid, the government programs for older people and the poor.
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The agency is in the process of setting payments based on those submissions.
The new rates illustrate the problems the government has in setting payments for an industry in which goods and services are continually changing because of new technology.
Banks pushed no-down-payment mortgages on people without jobs setting payments artificially low for the first few years.
In the public (MoH) setting, payments are out-of-pocket unless a clinical trial is available.
The government will not set payment rates for prescription drugs, organ transplants or kidney dialysis.
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