07/07/2015
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"Now, these are necessary and non-negotiable costs that we all want to encourage health plans to incur..."
"I would rather it be at $2,000 but $4,000 is a lot better than $4 million."
"I am not sure, by why is HHS classifying these expenses as administrative when they are expended specifically to improve the quality of a network that a patient can access?"
"According to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in 2011, Medicare spending accounted for 21 percent of total national health expenditures."