A new tax-free health savings account was included in the Medicare bill.
Administrative costs may even be higher with the new Medicare bill.
The industry is banking on the Medicare bill passed by Congress last week to help it.
But the Medicare bill is expected to remove such incentives.
No matter what the effects of the Medicare bill, payment problems are expected to continue.
"We have to see what this new Medicare bill is really saying and how it will play out, or be amended," she said.
This project was authorized in the 2008 Medicare bill.
The deficit was clearly an issue with the Medicare bill.
We believe the Medicare bill she helped develop was too harsh.
A lot of money in the Medicare bill is spent on things that have nothing to do with a prescription drug benefit.