MEDPAC

Question One

Your book includes an excerpt of a report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.  MedPAC is a group of experts who work part time for Congress to figure out ways to make Medicare work better. Take a look at the 2014 MedPAC Report and an excerpt from the federal register about Accountable Care Organizations. 

 

What was MedPAC recommending be done to Medicare, and are ACOs consistent with MedPAC’s recommendations? 

 

Question Two

 Your book includes two excerpts of federal law explaining how a federal court’s ability to review a denied Medicare claim is significantly limited by statute.  In other words, Congress decided to sharply constrain a Court’s power to overrule what the administrative state decided with respect to a patient’s Medicare claim. 

 

Why do you think Congress did so, and do you agree those constraints are a good idea? 

 

Question Three

 

What is the statutory standard for a Section 1115 waiver and do you agree with the standard Congress chose? 

 

Question Four

 

Who do you think has the better argument on the Medicaid expansion, Chief Justice Roberts or Justice Ginsburg?