Today, almost 60 million Americans are covered by Medicare — and 10,000 become eligible for Medicare every day.
For many years, Medicare was primarily a pure fee-for-service (FFS) payment system that paid health care providers based on the volume of services they delivered, not the value of those services. Over time, this contributed to increased costs with little improvement in the quality of care.
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September 28, 2015
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