Obama abandons controversial Medicare overhaul

Published December 16, 2016 3:49pm ET



The Obama administration has relented and will not to move forward with a controversial plan to pay doctors less for drugs they administer in their offices such as chemotherapy.

The administration announced late Thursday that it wouldn’t go forward with the experiment to Medicare Part B, which reimburses doctors for drugs administered in their office. The goal of the experiment was to get doctors to prescribe drugs based on value instead of choosing the most expensive drugs, but it met fierce pushback from Republicans.

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