The Independent Payment Advisory Board is designed to control runaway Medicare costs without cutting benefits, but physicians warn of unintended effects of cutting patient access. IPAB, authorized by the Affordable Care Act as a cost-containment provision, eventually might enable its commissioners to wield swift, significant power to change the course of Medicare policy without the need for congressional approval. ….To physicians and other opponents of the panel, the law establishing IPAB granted it unprecedented, dangerous authority to cut Medicare pay rates and strangle access to care.
American Medical News
“Medicare IPAB: Rational or rationing?”
October 15, 2012
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