In 2014, fee-for-service Medicare covered 38 million people and wrote over a billion checks for medical services. And here’s another thing: Medicare can affect you, even if you don’t use it: Medicare is so large that the price it pays doctors influences what your private plan pays.
So where do Medicare prices come from--and are they right?
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