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NEW STUDY: “UNCERTAINTY” DOMINATES TOP 5 SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS

Small business owners prominently rank “Uncertainty Over Economic Conditions” and “Uncertainty Over Government Actions” as their second and fourth most serious problems in the quadrennial NFIB report, Problems & Priorities. The top problem remains “Cost of Health Insurance,” which has historically been the No. 1 problem for small employers; 52% labeled it as “critical”. Nearly 40% of those surveyed said that economic uncertainty is the most critical problem, followed by 35% who identified “Energy Costs, Except Electricity” as critical for their firms; another 35% of owners named “Uncertainty Over Government Actions” as their most critical issue.

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Bundled Payments Could Cut Medicare Fraud, Experts Say

Health and policy experts are pushing for a system that pays doctors a lump sum for medical care or allows them to share in savings, saying it will save millions of dollars over current fee-for-service payments that can lead to fraud and over-use of medications.  In the new system, doctors would not be entitled to extra pay should they prescribe costlier medication.

Earlier this month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., raised the issue of lump sum – or “bundled” – payment plans at a hearing for the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell to become secretary of Health and Human Services. A bundled payment demonstration project at Bay State Health in Massachusetts saved $2,000 per Medicare patient for things like hip transplants, she said.

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