Opinion: Medicare regulations hamper providers without helping patients

Many Medicare quality measures are only loosely related to actual patient outcomes. It’s time to deregulate the system, writes Emory professor David Howard.

Apr 29, 2025 - 09:35
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Opinion: Medicare regulations hamper providers without helping patients

Lost amid the turmoil of DOGE’s federal workforce cuts was a mid-February executive order directing DOGE to repeal regulations that impede innovation, are overly burdensome, or not clearly authorized by statute.

Now it appears that DOGE and the Trump administration are taking action on that order. The administration has even created a website, regulations.gov, where members of the public can suggest regulations to revoke.

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