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Background: Payment Policy Changes
Balanced Budget Act of 1997
- Made the most far-reaching revisions to the Medicare program since its inception.
- Was in response to what was viewed as an impending health care crisis:
- Double digit growth in Medicare reimbursements
- Estimated insolvency of the Medicare Trust Fund by 2008.
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