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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
Hospitals Fear They'll Bear Brunt of Medicare Cuts
New York Times
Published: December 18, 2012. WASHINGTON — As President Obama and Congress try to thrash out a budget deal, the question is not whether they will squeeze money out of Medicare, but how much and who will bear the brunt of the cuts.
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New York Times
Raise the Medicare Age... But Let Under-67s Buy In
Huffington Post
One of the few cuts that Speaker Boehner and Republican budget negotiators have actually offered has been to raise the Medicare eligibility age, a move that on its own would save about $148 billion over the next 10 years, according to the CBO ...
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How raising age for Medicare would affect seniors
CBS News
We have seen a range of ideas for reducing Medicare spending in recent years, including plans from the Obama administration, Simpson-Bowles deficit-reduction commission and Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., among others. These proposals would phase in the ...
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CBS News
Seniors Looking To Quit Smoking Get More Help From Medicare
NPR (blog)
Everyone knows that quitting smoking is one of the surest ways to reduce the risk of dying. But it has taken a long time for some Medicare beneficiaries to get the same kind of help with quitting that's routinely available to people with private health ...
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NPR (blog)
Owner of Brooklyn Health Care Clinic Pleads Guilty in Medicare Fraud Scheme
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The owner of a Brooklyn, N.Y., health care clinic pleaded guilty Tuesday to her role in a $71 million Medicare fraud and money laundering scheme. Irina Shelikhova, a Ukrainian national and formerly a resident of Brooklyn and Staten Island, pleaded ...
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The trick Washington is using to cut Social Security and Medicare
Washington Post (blog)
A similar dynamic is behind the popularity of raising the retirement age, or the Medicare eligibility age: Its advocates can pretend that it's not a cut, but a technical adjustment made to account for the fact that Americans are living longer. Compared ...
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The toxic Medicare payment panel
Politico
Largely unspoken in the fiscal cliff Medicare fight is this fact: The Democrats' health law already includes a legally binding brake on Medicare spending. And the Republicans can't wait to get rid of it. Continue Reading ...
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Politico
How to challenge a Medicare denial
ReporterHerald.com
Here are some basic steps for challenging Medicare coverage denials under Part A (including hospitalization, nursing homes and hospice services) and Part B (doctor visits, tests, home health care, durable medical equipment). In most cases, it is not ...
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OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Medicare and the fiscal cliff
The Hill (blog)
Medicare may be off the table in deficit talks, at least for the moment. Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) latest offer to President Obama calls for tax increases on families making more than $1 million per year, but it wouldn't raise the Medicare ...
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Key Ingredient in Appeals to Medicare: Tenacity
AARP News (blog)
Dan Driscoll used to be a smoker. During a regular doctor's visit, his primary-care physician suggested that Driscoll be tested to see if he was at risk for an abdominal aortic aneurysm, a life-threatening condition that can be linked to smoking. The ...
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AARP News (blog)

Blogs4 new results for Medicare
 
How To File A Medicare Appeal - Kaiser Health News
By Susan Jaffe
Here are some basic steps for challenging Medicare coverage denials under Part A (including hospitalization, nursing homes and hospice services) and Part B (doctor visits, tests, home health care, durable medical equipment). In most cases ...
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Pastor Pleads Guilty To Defrauding Medicare Of More Than $11M ...
By Debbie Meron
Federal prosecutors say a Los Angeles-area pastor has pleaded guilty to conspiring with doctors, shady clinic operators and others to defraud Medicare of more than $11 million.
CBS Los Angeles
Carson pastor pleads guilty to $11 million in Medicare fraud ...
By Wesley Lowery
A Carson pastor pleaded guilty Monday to submitting more than $11 million in Medicare reimbursement claims through fraudulent clinics and by promising patients expensive equipment, according to the Department of Justice.
L.A. NOW
PacifiCare's massive Medicare Advantage fraud - PNHP's Official Blog
By Don McCanne MD
Under the Medicare Advantage (MA) program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services(CMS) makes monthly capitated payments to MA organizations for beneficiaries enrolled in the organizations' health care plans. Subsections ...
PNHP's Official Blog


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