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Monday, December 31, 2012

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Employers Must Offer Family Care, Affordable or Not
New York Times
WASHINGTON — In a long-awaited interpretation of the new health care law, the Obama administration said Monday that employers must offer health insurance to employees and their children, but will not be subject to any penalties if family coverage is ...
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Employees and retirees can lose health insurance when a firm closes or is sold
Washington Post
For some people, the promise of employer-provided health insurance is reason enough to take a job or stay put in one. But unexpected events — a corporate bankruptcy or sale, for example — can undermine the security of on-the-job coverage and leave ...
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The changing shape of health care in 2013
Marketplace.org
And on top of that, the government wants to make sure the websites are simple enough to make sure that people buy the health insurance plans that make the most financial sense for them." On controlling health care costs: "There are lots of efforts ...
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Report: Health insurance threshold could adversely affect job market
Wichita Business Journal (blog)
Provisions in the federal health care reform law that require companies who have 50 or more employees to provide health insurance coverage to their workers has some businesses honing their math skills. Some suggest that to avoid that threshold ...
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Medicaid, other health care issues likely to be contentious at Legislature
The Missoulian
HELENA – Once again, health care will be a contentious issue at the Montana Legislature – and the biggest battle is likely over whether Montana approves new, federally funded health coverage for 60,000 people in the state. Most Democrats and health ...
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Legal challenge continues over city's choice to manage health insurance fund
The Augusta Chronicle
The insurance company whose protest failed to convince Augusta commissioners to change their decision to award a lucrative contract to Blue Cross Blue Shield will pursue its challenge in court.
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Madison County leaders appoint committee to research health insurance costs ...
Syracuse.com
Citing rising budget pressures, Madison County leaders have appointed a committee to research the cost of health insurance coverage for elected officials and management employees. Members of the Madison County Board of Supervisors are the only ...
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What you might not know about health care reform
Smart Business Network
Health care reform is on the way, with most mandates starting in 2014, but it will be 20 or 30 years before we really know how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will work, says William F. Hutter, president and CEO of Sequent.
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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Google Alert - Medicare

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Physicians Brace For Medicare "Doc Fix" Cliff
CNBC.com
With no entitlement reform deal, the "fiscal cliff" cuts Medicare provider fees by 2 percent starting January 1st. On top of that, doctors face a 27 percent reimbursement cut, under a 1990s-era payment formula dating known as the sustainable growth ...
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Covering the Bases: Options for supplementing Medicare
CapitalGazette.com
To recap for the readers, the eligibility rules for Medicare differ greatly for disabled people under age 65 that the rules for people eligible for Medicare by turning age 65. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a cash benefit that is ...
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Hospitals raise alarm over sicker Medicare population
American Medical News
The trends mean that Medicare beneficiaries are consuming costlier services, in particular those delivered during inpatient hospital stays. Four out of five Medicare patients had at least one chronic condition in 2008, researchers with the American ...
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Bucks County Specialty Hospital gets highest Medicare scores in Philly metro
MedCity News
The biggest Medicare winner locally, based on so-called process of care and patient satisfaction standards, is the Bucks County Specialty Hospital in Bensalem, an orthopedic facility majority-owned by the Rothman Institute. It will receive a 0.67 ...
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LESS MEDICARE PAYMENTS = FEWER DOCTORS WHO TAKE MEDICARE
U-T San Diego
Medicare reimbursement payments to doctors will be cut significantly unless Congress moves to end its stalemate. Reimbursements to doctors will be cut by 26.5 percent as of Jan. 1, because of a failure by Congress to again adjust its formula for ...
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2013 agendas: More jobs, fixes to unemployment, Medicare and voter ID
Hickory Daily Record
2013 agendas: More jobs, fixes to unemployment, Medicare and voter ID. Story · Comments. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font size: Larger font size. Technology in 2013. Jeremy Detter/HICKORY DAILY RECORD ...
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"Man? Or a Predator Race Amongst Us…
Care2.com
30. GOP Senators Propose Raising Medicare Age. GOP Senators Propose Raising Medicare Age · US Politics & Gov't (tags: government, senate, healthcare, society, economy, ethics ) Carrie - 6 minutes ago - nationalmemo.com. Republicans have been ...
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Health care law may mean less hiring in 2013
USA TODAY
Under the Affordable Care Act, businesses that employ at least 50 full-time workers — or the equivalent, including part-time workers — must offer health insurance to staffers who work at least 30 hours a week. Employers that don't provide coverage ...
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Health Care Reform Forces Republican Governors To Walk Fine Line
Huffington Post
ATLANTA — Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After the Democratic president won re-election, the Republican governor softened his tone.
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IRS Proposes Employer Mandate Rules for Health Coverage
Accounting Today
Under the provisions, if employers do not offer affordable health coverage that provides a minimum level of health insurance coverage to their full-time employees, they may be subject to an Employer Shared Responsibility payment if at least one of ...
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NRA fingerprints in landmark health-care law
Washington Post
The words were tucked deep into the sprawling text of President Obama's signature health-care overhaul. Under the headline "Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights" was a brief provision restricting the ability of doctors to gather data about their ...
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SHIP Can Help with Health Insurance Questions
Cape May County Herald (press release)
Counselors from the State Health Insurance Program are located in the Cape May County Department of Aging & Disability Services in the Social Services Building, 4005 Route 9 South, Rio Grande, and can be reached by telephone at (609)886-8138.
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Republican governors walk fine line on health-care law
NOLA.com
Two Republican governors who are viewed as potential national candidates — Rick Perry of Texas, right, and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana — have been full-throated opponents of President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul. (Photo by Chris Carlson, The ...
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Neighbor2Neighbor: Foundation helps ensure health care for farmworkers
Napa Valley Register
But while major efforts to expand health care for Americans became part of the national conversation during the 2008 presidential election, the Napa Valley was, in important ways, ahead of the curve. For many agricultural workers here, health care ...
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Colorado Access spreads word on health coverage for kids
Denver Post
Colorado Access, the state's largest public health-care provider, has nearly 40,000 children enrolled in its Child Health Plan Plus, but according to staff, it could easily have 40,000 more. With that in mind, the Denver-based organization that serves ...
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Medical Insurance Bill Passed
AllAfrica.com
LAWMAKERS on Friday finally passed the long awaited medical insurance bill, as the House capped this year's parliamentary business. Shortly after her committee presented its work on the final draft legislation, the deputy chair of the standing ...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Google Alert - Medicare

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Fiscal cliff cuts could weaken Medicare in NJ
NJ.com
The 2 percent cut would cost New Jersey health care facilities $133 million in 2013, affecting hospitals, nursing homes and physicians who accept Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors. "This is making people in my position very ...
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Health Care Industry Anxiously Awaiting Fiscal Cliff Outcome With Medicare ...
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — Confused about the federal budget struggle? So are doctors, hospital administrators and other medical professionals who serve the 100 million Americans covered by Medicare and Medicaid. Rarely has the government sent so many ...
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Corker, Alexander offer plan to cut Medicare, up debt ceiling
Knoxville News Sentinel
With that confidence, Tennessee's senators turned to spending cuts and offered a proposal to exchange a $1 trillion reduction in entitlement spending — mostly from Medicare — for a $1 trillion rise in the federal debt ceiling. "Taxes is not the ...
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Estate Planning: How the Obamacare Medicare surtax affects trusts and estates
Lake County News
On Jan. 1, 2013, the 3.8 percent Medicare surtax, passed by Congress in 2010 to help pay for Obamacare, takes effect. The 3.8 percent surtax is in addition to any income tax owed and applies to both individuals and trusts and estates. Let us examine ...
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Physicians Fear Medicare Cuts Due to Fiscal Cliff
East Idaho News
Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Medicare physicians are preparing for fee hikes for their patients if Congress is unable to resolve the fiscal cliff, according to a statement by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). According ...
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Don't hike Medicare age
WatertownDailyTimes.com
I am disappointed to hear that politicians in Washington are thinking of raising the Medicare eligibility age as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations. This just does not make sense for today's seniors, for those who have recently retired or for future ...
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GOP Senators Propose Raising Medicare Age
OpEdNews
These discussions are not moderated. We rely on users to police themselves, and flag inappropriate comments and behavior. In accordance with our Guidelines and Policies, we reserve the right to remove any post at any time for any reason, and will ...
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Letter: Let Medicare use its clout to spare seniors
The State Journal-Register
A lot of ideas about how to reduce Medicare spending are being bandied about as Washington grapples with the fiscal showdown. Most of these ideas involve seniors paying a lot more to get the health care they need. Somehow, in the topsy-turvy Capital ...
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Covering the Bases: Options for supplementing Medicare [Capital (Annapolis, MD)]
Insurance News Net (press release)
Last week I read your article about the person who just was awarded their Social Security Disability benefit and was waiting the two years for their Medicare to begin. I am in a similar situation but am closing in on my two-year wait. Medicare is due ...
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The conventional wisdom on the deficit is: Right now the deficit doesn't pose a problem, but thanks to the gigantic growth in healthcare costs, it's inevitable that the government will get swamped by Medicare spending, ergo we need to tweak ...
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What's in store for money matters in 2013?
Boston Globe
New Year's Eve bells will ring in more than confetti showers and new diets. For consumers, Jan. 1 will usher in fresh laws, regulations, and trends that will immediately affect their spending and saving power, regardless of fiscal cliff decisions ...
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Five ways your health care will change in 2013
The Courier-Journal
Starting in 2013, the Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to send their subscribers a standardized, four-page summary of benefits and coverage that runs through the health plan in easy-to-understand terms. Think of this as a nutrition ...
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Health care law is serious business
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Ullio and other business owners are discovering that while the law pushes business to offer a health plan or pay a penalty, many employers can pass most of the costs of an insurance plan on to their employees, as long as the employees are paid enough ...
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Budget struggle raising anxiety for health care
Knoxville News Sentinel
Yet more government spending is also being promised as President Barack Obama's health care overhaul advances and millions of uninsured people move closer to getting government-subsidized coverage. "Imagine a person being told they are going to get ...
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Health care ruling may affect local hospital's funding
Themountainpress
Last summer, ruling on President Obama's signature health-care policy, the Supreme Court struck down a provision requiring states to expand their Medicaid programs. Medicaid is the federal health-care program for low-income people. The ruling could ...
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3 Horrendous Health-Care Stocks This Week
Motley Fool
The last full week of 2012 brought fears of falling off the fiscal cliff, which in turn brought the overall markets down. Health-care stocks were no exception, but the worst results had nothing to do with the fiscal cliff. Here are three of the most ...
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Individual mandate in healthcare was year's top consumer story
Los Angeles Times
The so-called individual mandate requires that most people have health insurance. It's the trade-off for the insurance industry's agreement to stop denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions and to stop charging higher rates if you get sick.
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16 insurance companies stop dealings with 6 medical facilities in Dubai after ...
Emirates 24/7
Sixteen insurance companies will stop all dealings with six private medical facilities in Dubai as a result of those hospitals increasing prices of services by up to 20 per cent. According to a report in Emarat Al Youm, the insurance companies stated ...
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DHA to regulate services provided through health insurance
AME Info
His Excellency Engineer Essa Al Maidoor, the Director-General of the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), announced that the DHA will start to regulate services provided through health insurance in Dubai as these services are an important and growing part of ...
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GOP Governors Deny The Poor Health Care In Opposing Obamacare's Medicaid ...
Huffington Post
With no health insurance and not enough money for a doctor, Laura Johnson is long accustomed to treating her ailments with a self-written prescription: home remedies, prayer and denial. Over decades, she made her living assisting elderly people in ...
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Sofi Insurance Services Now Offers Consultation for Health Insurance Plans
San Francisco Chronicle
Some have lost their jobs and the employee health insurance it once provided, while others may not have access to employer-provided insurance. When families lack insurance coverage, finding a suitable policy can be difficult. Sofi Insurance Services is ...
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Big Data Can Fight Fraud in Health Insurance Exchanges: Opera
eWeek
As the federal government prepares to step in and build health insurance exchanges (HIXes) for those states that decline to implement them under the Affordable Care Act, preventing fraud in the exchanges will be a challenge for the health care IT industry.
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Hobby Lobby Violates Affordable Health Care Act
KULR-TV
A lawsuit is pending and until then, Hobby Lobby will still provide health insurance to its employees, but will not pay for the Plan B contraceptive. The company will continue its appeal before the tenth circuit court. The Supreme Court recently ...
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Changes to come quickly in health care
Monroe News Star
After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate within the Act in June, the government gave states the opportunity to set up their own health insurance exchanges, which Louisiana declined to do because, Bozeman said, the government would ...
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San Diegans to pay higher health care premiums in the new year
10News
SAN DIEGO - Renee Gilbert, who lives in Banker's Hill, knows how important it is to maintain health insurance even if every penny of that insurance comes right out of your own pocket. "I don't go to the doctor a lot but I do my annual physicals and ...
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How Health Reform Could Change Your Coverage in 2013
PBS NewsHour (blog)
It's been a big year for the Affordable Care Act, a year filled with everything from a narrow victory in the Supreme Court to the re-election of a president who vows to implement the law on schedule. But 2013 stands to be even bigger. In the video ...
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Aetna CEO: Health Insurance Premiums Could Double Under Obamacare
Moneynews
Health insurance premiums will rise and in some cases could double under Obamacare, predicts Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini. "If we're going to insure all Americans, which I think is a worthy and appropriate cause, then somebody has to pay for it," Bertolini ...
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