Medicare

U.S. Senator Peter Welch, D-Vt., a member of the Senate Finance Committee, discusses the importance of protecting Medicaid and his new bipartisan bill, the Rural Hospital Support Act, while touring Brattleboro Memorial Hospital on Wednesday.Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer BRATTLEBORO — U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., stopped…

Bipartisan bill would extend key Medicare rural hospital programs WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), members of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced the bipartisan Rural Hospital Support Act, legislation to prevent rural hospital closures by extending and modernizing…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today celebrated the White House’s announcement that it has selected 15 additional prescription drugs for Medicare price negotiations. These newly announced prescription drugs—together with ten drugs already negotiated last year—represent nearly a third of all Medicare Part…

What’s the news: Following AMA advocacy in leading the charge to reform the Medicare payment system, a bipartisan group in the U.S. Senate has joined to ask the chamber’s Democratic and Republican leaders to address the 2.8% cuts to Medicare payment that are scheduled to take effect…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) led a bipartisan group of 39 Senators in calling on Senate leaders to protect access to Medicare services by ensuring health care providers who treat Medicare patients are adequately compensated for the care they deliver.  The U.S. Centers for Medicare…