Report
Executive Summary
The economic evaluation of Medicare as system of efficiency in the U.S. insurance sector economy of scale is analyzed according to U.S. Senator Cantwell’s Affordable Care Act 2010, enacted as a reform measure to overhaul the existing Medicare fee-for-service payment system. The report addresses Medicare’s Value Payment Modifier (VPM) replacement of the former volume cost instrument used by the government agency, as well as the value-based index (VBI) to be used by Medicare providers within the national health care delivery system by 2017.
- Introduction
The report examines U.S. Senator Cantwell’s (2013) ...