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Should Medicare pay less for less effective care?

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From its inception, Medicare has been agnostic about the effectiveness of different treatments when it sets payment rates. Once a treatment is found to be "reasonable and necessary," Medicare establishes a payment rate that takes into account complexity and other "inputs" that go into delivering the service. But it is prohibited by law from varying payments based on how well an intervention

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