Bush Medicare Proposal Would Require Price And Quality Transparency
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Bush administration continues to push its priorities of value-based purchasing and price transparency for health care consumers through legislation aimed at saving the Medicare program from insolvency
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