Hospitals Ask Feds To Slow Down Proposals To Shift Away From Fee-For-Service Payments

The Department of Health and Human Services has a goal of moving 50 percent of its Medicare payments from fee for service to instead reward quality or value through alternative payment models by the end of 2018. Other Medicare news explores the cost of a proposal to change how the government pays for drugs administered in doctors' offices and efforts by insurers to move people "seamlessly" into Medicare Advantage plans.