Author Archives: Fang He, Angela Gasdaska, Yan Tang, and Chris Beadles

About Fang He, Angela Gasdaska, Yan Tang, and Chris Beadles

Yan Tang is a Health Economist at RTI International. She has served as lead of teams on projects funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), with a focus on Medicare alternative payment models. Her research interests include Medicare payment reform, primary care payment reform, health policy evaluation, pharmaceutical policy, and quantitative analysis.

If Medicare builds it, can FQHCs come?

By | July 14, 2023
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Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced its newest alternative payment model for primary care, Making Care Primary (MCP). MCP builds upon lessons learned from previous CMS primary care models: the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) initiative, the Maryland Primary Care Program, and Primary… Read More »

The Second Decade of Medicare Part D: Time to Modernize?

By | April 21, 2021
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This figures shows the increase in Medicare Part D total spending, spending in catastrophic coverage, and the percent of total spending in catastrophic coverage from 2006-2019.

The Medicare Part D program, which was launched in 2006, is in the middle of its second decade of providing prescription drug coverage to Medicare beneficiaries. The Part D program has improved beneficiaries’ access to prescription drugs but at increasing cost. Federal spending for Part D has more than doubled from $44.3 billion in 2006… Read More »