Flaws In How Medicare Estimates Costs Mar Payments To Hospitals, Doctors

A report from the Institute of Medicine says Medicare needs to make a "significant change" to the ways it evaluates salaries of health care workers and real estate costs. Major changes to these calculations would affect the bottom lines of thousands Read More...

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Posted Jun 01 2011, 11:29 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog