On June 12, 2025, MEDPAC released its 2025 Report to Congress on the Medicare program.
Find the webpage here and the 419-page PDF report here.
Note that there is a sort of echo chamber beween MEDPAC investigations and HHS and Congressional actions.
- Chapter 1 of MEDPAC, for example, is: Reforming physician fee schedule updates and improving the accuracy of relative payment rates.
- Whereas, note that in the newly proposed CMS 2026 budget, the White House/HHS propose: $53M (up $5M) to accurately update payment systems and fee schedules.
- Chapter 2 is about supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage.
- See recent articles on switching plans in patients with and without cancer (Jazowski, JAMA) and
- an article on Medicare, Medigap, and Medicare Advantage patient strategies in JAMA recently (Casalino JAMA).
