Medicare Cuts Shift Burden onto Healthcare Providers, Not Insurers

When Medicare cuts rates or slows increases, healthcare providers do not shift that burden onto others, a new study has found.

At least that’s the headline, but what the study really shows is that Medicare reimbursement rates drive all reimbursements to healthcare providers across the board.

A new study sponsored by the National Institute for Health Care Reform found that when the growth of Medicare reimbursement rates slows, so, too, do the reimbursements from private insurers.