Jul 17, 2025 / Data Book

July 2025 Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program

Research Areas:

Ambulatory Care Settings, Beneficiaries and Coverage, Drugs, Devices, and Tests, Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Physicians And Other Health Professionals, Post-Acute Care, Private Plans, Quality

Jun 12, 2025 / Reports

June 2025 Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System

Research Areas:

Beneficiaries and Coverage, Drugs, Devices, and Tests, Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Physicians And Other Health Professionals, Post-Acute Care, Private Plans, Quality, Regional Issues

Jun 12, 2025 / Chapters

Executive summary (June 2025 report)

Research Areas:

Beneficiaries and Coverage, Drugs, Devices, and Tests, Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Physicians And Other Health Professionals, Post-Acute Care, Private Plans, Quality, Regional Issues

Jun 12, 2025 / Chapters

Chapter 7: Reducing beneficiary cost sharing for outpatient services at critical access hospitals (June 2025 report)

Research Areas:

Beneficiaries and Coverage, Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Regional Issues

Jun 09, 2025 / Comment Letters

MedPAC comment on CMS’s proposed rule on inpatient prospective payment systems for FY 2026

Research Areas:

Hospitals

Mar 13, 2025 / Reports

March 2025 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy

Research Areas:

Ambulatory Care Settings, Beneficiaries and Coverage, Delivery System Reforms, Drugs, Devices, and Tests, Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Physicians And Other Health Professionals, Post-Acute Care, Private Plans

Mar 13, 2025 / Chapters

Executive summary (March 2025 Report)

Research Areas:

Ambulatory Care Settings, Beneficiaries and Coverage, Delivery System Reforms, Drugs, Devices, and Tests, Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Physicians And Other Health Professionals, Post-Acute Care, Private Plans

Mar 07, 2025 / Transcripts

March 2025 public meeting transcript

Research Areas:

Beneficiaries and Coverage, Delivery System Reforms, Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Physicians And Other Health Professionals, Post-Acute Care, Private Plans, Regional Issues

Jan 16, 2025 / Transcripts

January 2025 meeting transcript

Research Areas:

Drugs, Devices, and Tests, Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Physicians And Other Health Professionals, Post-Acute Care, Private Plans

Dec 13, 2024 / Presentations

Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Hospital inpatient and outpatient services; and mandated report on rural emergency hospitals

Research Areas:

Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Regional Issues