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Friday, November 30, 2012

Google Alert - Medicare

News10 new results for Medicare
 
AARP Opposing All Medicare Cuts
Wall Street Journal
The main lobbying groups for older Americans say they are opposed to any changes in Medicare and Medicaid that would cut benefits or increase costs for those participating in the two government-run health programs. They also oppose cuts to Social ...
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Wall Street Journal
Dialysis company accused of giant Medicare fraud
CNN
But that brief encounter may end up exposing what could be one of the largest Medicare frauds in U.S. history. Dr. Alon Vainer, a medical director at dialysis clinics in Georgia, was discussing clinic procedures with one of the nurses, Daniel Barbir ...
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Froma Harrop: Lobby group should back off about Medicare
Lewiston Sun Journal
As seniors go about their day, a stern female voice says of Medicare and Social Security, "We earned them." She goes on, "If Washington tries to cram decisions about the future of these programs into a last-minute budget deal, we'll all pay the price ...
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The Catch 22 In Efforts to Cut Medicare Spending
Forbes
For those who are extremists about cutting government spending on Medicare, consider this: we taxpayers are getting ripped off by the Medicare program. To me, the solution is not in cutting how much we pay doctors and other providers of healthcare.
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Forbes
Medicare Enrollment Deadline Is Dec. 7 As Changes Take Effect For Drug ...
Hartford Courant
People 65 and older have less than a week to sign up for a Medicare Advantage plan or a prescription-drug plan by the Dec. 7 deadline. The deadline was moved up last year from Dec. 31 to early December. The earlier deadline gives private insurers more ...
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Medicare report finds elective surgeries vary by region
Buffalo News
Among the 30 largest communities in the mid-Atlantic states, rates of PSA testing ranged from 6 percent of male Medicare beneficiaries in Binghamton to 60 percent in Manhasset. Buffalo's rate was 35 percent, near the national average. "We know that the ...
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Medicare patients at risk without doctors' fiscal cliff fix
CNN
Thanks to bad timing, the Medicare fees that doctors are paid for treating seniors has gotten tangled up in the same high-stakes deal-making to avert the fiscal cliff -- across the board tax hikes and spending cuts that kick in January. If Congress ...
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ACA could mean changes for Medicare
Wellington Daily News
Thursday's presentation specifically concerned the effects that the law will have on Medicare, the health care coverage program offered to those 65 years of age and older and those younger than 65 with permanent disabilities. Whether or not one agrees ...
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Older Pennsylvanians Reminded of Medicare Annual Enrollment Deadline
Sacramento Bee
HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Older Pennsylvanians are reminded that the deadline for Medicare annual enrollment is Friday, Dec. 7. Individuals are urged to utilize the state Department of Aging's APPRISE program to ...
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What Hurricane Sandy Teaches Us About Medicaid, Medicare
Forbes
With Hurricane Sandy slated to cost the nation more than $50 billion, policymakers are scrambling to figure how to contain the rapidly rising costs of disaster relief. U.S. taxpayers have spent $250 billion over two decades helping states like Florida ...
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Blogs5 new results for Medicare
 
Do Republicans Want to Cut Medicare? -- Daily Intel
By Jonathan Chait
Continuing the theme of Mitt Romney Silver Linings Playbook retrospectives, kicked off by strategist Stuart Stevens's triumphant op-ed about his candidate's great successes, former Romney aides Pete Wehner and Dan Senor* offer their ...
Daily Intel
NBC News sets good example for Medicare reporting : CJR
Guarantees or not, that means the reporters on the Medicare beat will have plenty to report on in the weeks ahead—not just to track the twists and turns in negotiations, but to explain the high stakes for both the nation's finances and ordinary ...
CJR
Dems Bide Their Time On Medicare Savings | TPMDC
By Brian Beutler
Faced with the reality that taxes are going up, either automatically or with their tacit assent, Republicans are hoping that they can bank an ideologically suitable down-payment on a broader deficit reduction package in the form of cuts to ...
TPMDC
400 Billion Dollars in Cuts to Medicare? "No. Thank You, President ...
By TomThumb
In July of 2011, President Obama offered Republicans cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. The written offer is HERE. Last night, President Obama, made a similar offer to Speaker Boehner. The paper of record described this as a ...
TomThumb's myFDL diary
Viewpoints: Fighting To A Draw On Medicare - Kaiser Health News
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
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Web2 new results for Medicare
 
House Dems: Medicare Cuts Off The Table
House Democrats on Wednesday said they would not agree to any Medicare cuts during the fiscal cliff negotiations. While Democrats have pressured ...
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Did Social Security and Medicare Crash the Economy? | The ...
From the blog The Exchange: By Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research The talk in Washington these days might lead people ...
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Owner of Las Vegas Metro Pizza fears he won't be able to handle health care costs, will have ...
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Google Alert - health insurance News

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Feds propose 3.5 percent fee on insurers who want to participate in new health ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Health insurance companies will have to pay to play in new health insurance markets coming under President Barack Obama's health care law, the administration said in a regulatory notice issued Friday. The Health and Human Services ...
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Health insurance buying exchanges take shape locally
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Local employers and insurers are moving more aggressively to form private health-insurance buying exchanges that in many respects mirror the government exchanges due to take effect in 2014 under Obamacare. For employers, setting up such exchanges ...
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Florida health care advocates urge feds to run state's health insurance exchange
WTSP 10 News
Health care advocates in Florida are urging the federal government to consider operating Florida's new health insurance exchange because the state is so far behind setting it up. The Affordable Care Act requires states to have online health exchanges ...
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Small Employers Weigh Impact of Providing Health Insurance
New York Times
Like many franchisees, Robert U. Mayfield, who owns five Dairy Queens in and around Austin, Tex., is always eager to expand and — no surprise — has had his eyes on opening a sixth DQ. But he said concerns about the new federal health care law had ...
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New York Times
Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange Rejected By Jan Brewer
StudentNewsIE.com
In a letter to a federal health official, Arizona governor Jan Brewer has said she will reject the health insurance exchange elements of Obamacare. There are currently seventeen states that are rejecting the exchange. The health insurance exchange is ...
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Health care entitlements
Rutland Herald
The Affordable Care Act contains provisions that will reduce projected Medicare spending by $716 billion over 10 years, primarily by reducing the annual increases in Medicare reimbursements for hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers ...
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Health insurance rates could shoot up
San Francisco Chronicle
California health insurers are proposing double-digit rate increases for hundreds of thousands of policyholders, drawing criticism that health insurers are padding their profits as the nation prepares to carry out the federal health care law. Anthem ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Conservative health care expert is Janek's 'special adviser'
Dallas Morning News (blog)
The former vice president for health care policy at an Austin-based, conservative think tank has become Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Kyle Janek's "special adviser," concentrating on two urgent and thorny social services issues.
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Dallas Morning News (blog)
Amerigroup sells Virginia health plan to Inova
Businessweek
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Amerigroup Corp. says it has completed the sale of its Virginia operations to health care provider Inova Health System Foundation. The Virginia Beach-based company said Friday the move divests all of its managed care ...
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Google Alert - Obamacare News

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Will economy feel the effects of ObamaCare? | Fox ...
A look at impact of health care law implementation.
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Cantor Parrots Boehner Calling for Obamacare to ...
Republican Leader Wants Deficit-Reducing Obamacare 'On The Table' In .... Bill O'Reilly ...
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NEWS BLITZ ObamaCare Police Entrapment ...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Google Alert - Medicare

News10 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare Off the Menu
New York Times (blog)
President Obama served a lunch of white turkey chili today to the man who accused him of having "robbed" Medicare of $716 billion. The president, trying to show magnanimity, was undoubtedly too polite to bring up this outrageous charge by Mitt Romney, ...
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Audit finds billions in unverified Medicare spending
Washington Post
Medicare has paid doctors and hospitals billions of dollars to switch from paper to electronic health records without verifying that the new systems meet required quality standards, according to a federal audit released Thursday. The funds, which total ...
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Forward! Obama Privatizes Medicare for 3 Million 'Dual-Eligible' Low-Income ...
Forbes
During the campaign, President Obama blasted away at Mitt Romney's proposal for Medicare reform, because, according to Obama, "no American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies." And yet, the President is ...
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Inside the 'fiscal cliff' haggling over Medicare
Washington Post (blog)
Some more quick notes about that big Politico piece on what's going on in the fiscal cliff talks. The piece makes two points about the haggling over Medicare's future that are worth addressing. First, it says in passing that Dem aides say raising the ...
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Fiscal-cliff pressure could lead to Medicare and Medicaid cuts
The Courier-Journal
WASHINGTON — Democrats say Social Security is off the table. So if Republicans are successful in pushing for changes to entitlement programs in budget talks, the pressure for cuts will be on Medicare and Medicaid. Republicans propose raising the ...
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Report Slamming Lack Of Medicare Oversight Of Taxpayers Money Is Not A ...
Forbes
When the government issues rules and deadlines to force change in an industry as complex as health care, things will go awry. At risk, here, is up to $20 billion in taxpayers money that Medicare is paying to doctors and hospitals as an incentive to buy ...
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The GOP's Medicare confusion
Washington Post (blog)
The austerity crisis talks have hit a peculiar impasse. The problem isn't, as most analysts expected, taxes, where Republicans seem increasingly resigned to new revenue. It's Medicare. And the particular Medicare problem isn't that Democrats are ...
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Company accused of massive Medicare fraud
CNN
Loading... Published on Nov 29, 2012 by CNN. A company that runs 2,000 dialysis clinics in the U.S. is accused of making hundreds of millions through Medicare fraud. For more CNN videos on YouTube, check out http://www.youtube.com/cnn. Or visit our ...
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Don't Cut Medicare Benefits -- Tackle Drug Prices
Huffington Post
As the approach of the so-called "Fiscal Cliff" nears, many advocates nationwide are making this message clear: Medicare benefit cuts are not an option. In a letter to the president and Congress, AARP states, "As we move forward, it is clear that older ...
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If Medicare age is raised, the young will pay more
Washington Examiner
LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 10: Nurse Allison Miller (L) checks the blood pressure of Keri Anderson as nurses and physicians give free basic health screenings and call attention to what they say is the ongoing healthcare emergency despite the decision of ...
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Blogs5 new results for Medicare
 
Daily Report: Medicare Is Faulted on Shift to Electronic Records ...
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A sharply critical report says the agency, while encouraging the switch to electronic medical records, has not developed appropriate safeguards against fraud and abuse. Read more...
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The Medicare cuts the GOP refuses to identify - The Maddow Blog
By Steve Benen
Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen report today that the fiscal talks appear to be going poorly on the surface, but "behind the scenes," top officials seem to agree that the "contours of a deal ... are starting to take shape." The argument over taxes ...
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Durbin: No Raising The Medicare Age Until Obamacare Is Up And ...
By Brian Beutler
Democrats are telling Republicans who want to raise the Medicare eligibility age to look elsewhere…for now.
TPMDC
Republicans Won't Name Medicare Cuts They Want and They Don't ...
By Jon Walker
While elected Republicans claim they, in general, want entitlement reform, they are currently refusing to put forward any proposals that might actually.
FDL Action
Medicare, Other Entitlement Programs Key To 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal ...
Politico reports that "inside the talks," a framework for addressing the "fiscal cliff" is taking shape that includes both tax increases and entitlement cuts. Other news outlets note that publicly, President Barack Obama is playing down spending ...
Daily Report

Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Sen. Dick Durbin: Medicare, Medicaid Fair Game in Talks to Avoid ...
From Yahoo! News: Sen. Dick Durbin said today that his Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate should be willing to address entitlement programs like ...
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Google Alert - health insurance News

News10 new results for health insurance News
 
Most happy with health insurance cost
UPI.com
Gallup's annual Health and Healthcare poll, conducted Nov. 15-18, found Medicaid and Medicare recipients' satisfaction with what they pay for health insurance rose to a new high the last two years, at 76 percent, while those who have private insurance ...
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Voters Come Clean on Health Care
ABC News (blog)
The study, which drew on the combined data of three pre-election and exit polls, found that Obama supporters were three times more likely to say that health care was the most important problem facing the country. These polls are a "very good prediction ...
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Pay a penalty? Business owners face health care dilemma
al.com (blog)
The owner of Binary Group Inc., an information technology firm based in Alexandria, Va., is one of many small business owners who will be required to provide health insurance for her staffers under a provision of the law that goes into effect on Jan. 1 ...
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al.com (blog)
No health insurance? At Florida clinic, no problem
NBCNews.com (blog)
As a 49-year-old single mom without health insurance, Ashley is part of the group known as the "working poor" -- people who have jobs so they can't qualify for Medicaid, but who don't earn enough to afford health insurance. Ashley, who was earning ...
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Federal Health care law: Brewer rejects state-run exchange
TriValley Central
Brewer's decision announced Wednesday means the federal government will set up an online marketplace for the state, offering subsidized private health coverage to the middle class. The governor reiterated her unwavering opposition to the health care ...
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Commenters spar over study saying Alabama has the least competitive health ...
al.com (blog)
Wednesday's story on the American Medical Association's report that Alabama has the least competitive health insurance market in the nation drew lots of comments from readers on all sides. The study of U.S. markets found that a single insurer -- Blue ...
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State health care advocates push for feds to run health exchange
Gainesville Sun
A group of Florida health care advocacy organizations on Thursday sent a letter to Health and Human Services asking it to maintain states' deadlines for the health insurance exchanges foreseen by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The HHS ...
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AMA: Nebraska 10th-least-competitive state market for health insurance
Lincoln Journal Star
Nebraska has the 10th-least-competitive health insurance market among states, according to data reported by the American Medical Association. That assessment is part of the AMA's Competition in Health Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets, ...
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How Obamacare Compares To 19th Century Care
Wall Street Journal (blog)
What was health care like in the "good old days"? And what was the government's role? Today to relieve the taxpayer from the obligation to pay the hospital costs for the uninsured, the country is preparing for "Obamacare," a mandate for everyone to ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Nixon prepares for health care announcement
STLtoday.com
JEFFERSON CITY • Gov. Jay Nixon is sending signs that he may support a controversial expansion of Missouri's Medicaid program, a move that would put him at odds with Republican legislative leaders. Nixon, a Democrat who recently won a second term in ...
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ObamaCare: WI Hospital Cuts 140 Positions; Lays ...
A Madison, Wisconsin hospital has joined the ranks of employers directly affected by ...
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World News - Is ObamaCare a sure thing? - YouTube
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Google Alert - Medicare

News8 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare Is Faulted on Shift to Electronic Records
New York Times
But the report says Medicare, which is charged with managing the incentive program that encourages the adoption of electronic records, has failed to put in place adequate safeguards to ensure that information being provided by hospitals and doctors ...
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New York Times
OVERNIGHT HEALTH: House Dems reject Medicare cuts
The Hill (blog)
As the country moves closer and closer to the "fiscal cliff," Democrats are maintaining a hard line against cuts to Medicare benefits. Party leaders said Wednesday that any cuts to benefits in Medicare and Medicaid should be off the table in a deal to ...
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Help Medicare to thrive under ACA
Politico
As we approach the edge of the fiscal cliff, Medicare — the health insurance program for America's seniors and disabled — is in the cross hairs. Former Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan authored a budget that called for Medicare ...
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Medicare, social program cuts: Will Democrats go along?
Christian Science Monitor
Republicans' newfound willingness to consider tax increases to avert the "fiscal cliff" comes with a significant caveat: larger cuts than Democrats seem willing to consider to benefit programs like Medicare, Medicaid and the president's health care ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Medicare Must Grow Older To Survive
Neon Tommy
In 1965, when Medicare was established, giving health coverage to Americans over 65 years of age, life expectancy in the United States was 70.21 years. Now it's 78.49. Not only are Americans living longer under Medicare coverage, there are more of them ...
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Dem leaders: Cuts to Medicare benefits off the table in deficit negotiations
The Hill
Democratic party leaders on Wednesday argued that they had already put Medicare cuts on the table in deficit talks, but they ruled out any reduction to benefits. "Is Medicare – has it been on the table? Absolutely it has been on the table," Rep. Xavier ...
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Republican calls for tougher fight against Medicare fraud
The Hill (blog)
"Without first plugging the policy loopholes that lead to Medicare fraud, the federal government will likely switch from maintaining one costly, fraud-prone system to instead maintaining two costly, fraud-prone systems." House and Senate versions of ...
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NY clinic workers plead guilty to Medicare fraud
Wall Street Journal
Court documents say the three were employees of a Brooklyn clinic that paid cash kickbacks to Medicare beneficiaries. They also used the beneficiaries' names to bill Medicare for more than $71 million in services that were unnecessary or never provided.
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Blogs5 new results for Medicare
 
Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Raising the Medicare ...
By Jon Walker
By greater than a two-to-one margin, voters overwhelmingly oppose increasing the Medicare retirement age from 65 to 67, according to a new Washington Post.
FDL Action
Contra the Deficit Scolds, We Can Keep Medicare and Medicaid ...
By David Dayen
Medicare is already means-tested. To means-test it more, in a way that will actually capture enough revenue to matter, you would have to dip into the middle class to make the math work. Similarly, this idea that this is the "wealthiest generation ...
Firedoglake
What Medicare Needs is a Consumer-Driven Market - Jeff Jacoby ...
By Jeff Jacoby
Neurologists are about to feel the sting of the Affordable Care Act. Beginning Jan. 1, Medicare will be paying them less for electrodiagnostic procedures used in identifying and treating a wide range of nerve and muscle disorders.
Townhall's Recent Columns
Clinic Workers Plead Guilty To Role In Medicare Fraud Ring « CBS ...
By Adam Harrington
Two Brooklyn residents have pleaded guilty in a $71 million scheme to defraud Medicare.
CBS New York
Daily Kos: We must SAVE MEDICARE, MEDICAID, AND SOCIAL ...
By rss@dailykos.com (StewartAcuff)
PLEASE CALL BOTH YOUR SENATORS AND YOUR MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM NO CUTS TO MEDICARE OR MEDICAID OR SOCIAL SECURITY! THE PHONE NUMBER IS 202-224-3121.
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Medicare payment changes draw fire - The Boston Globe
Neurologists from Boston hospitals and around the country are calling on the federal government to reverse a decision to cut payments for certain diagnostic ...
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