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Friday, December 21, 2012

Google Alert - Medicare

News9 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare Spending Isn't Out of Control
New York Times (blog)
After all, as I explained in my previous post, traditional Medicare, which still attracts about 75 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries, affords its enrollees free choice of providers and therapy. In the jargon of health-policy wonks, it is "unmanaged ...
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New York Times (blog)
Medicare: A Plan B for Part D
Los Angeles Times
One of the most popular benefits of Medicare is the Part D prescription drug program, which enables seniors and the disabled to buy taxpayer-subsidized coverage for many of the most widely prescribed medicines. When it created the costly benefit in ...
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Medicare Starts To Reward Quality, Not Quantity, Of Care
NPR (blog)
In what amounts to a nationwide competition, Medicare compared hospitals on how faithfully they followed basic standards of care and how patients rated their experiences. Medicare disclosed on Thursday how individual hospitals will fare when the ...
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NPR (blog)
Lawmakers praise passage of Medicare ID theft bill
The Hill (blog)
The bill orders "cost-effective procedures" at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure that Social Security numbers are not used on the Medicare card, which seniors are asked to carry at all times. "This commonsense bill is a vital ...
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Senator Jeff Merkley On Raising Medicare Age: "It's A Virtual Death Sentence"
Huffington Post
As the fiscal cliff negotiations continue, different budget proposals have been floated, including raising the age of Medicare eligibility. Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon spoke to HuffPost Live's Abby Huntsmen about the devastation that ...
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Medicare Discloses Hospitals' Bonuses, Penalties Based On Quality
Kaiser Health News
In all, Medicare is rewarding 1,557 hospitals with more money and reducing payments to 1,427 others, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of records released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The maximum amount any hospital could ...
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Kaiser Health News
Medicare premiums could soon rise for wealthier retirees
Delmarva Daily Times
WASHINGTON — They may not agree on much else, but there's a change to Medicare that President Barack Obama and Republicans both support: Expand a little-known law so more retirees whom the government considers well-off are required to pay ...
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My Medicare Supplement rate increase is outrageous!
Your Houston News
I recently received the renewal for my Medicare Supplement and the rate increase is not in my budget. It is over 15 percent and every year it seems to go up, but not as much as this year. I'm a 70-year-old female with high blood pressure and type 2 ...
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Fiscal Cliff Deal Could Mean Higher Medicare Premiums for Many Retirees
DailyFinance
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's a health care change that President Barack Obama and Republicans both embrace: Expand a current, little-known law so more retirees the government considers well-off are required to pay higher Medicare premiums. That plan is ...
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Blogs4 new results for Medicare
 
More retirees face rise in Medicare premiums | The Salt Lake Tribune
Washington • They may not agree on much else, but there's a change to Medicare that President Barack Obama and Republicans both support.
All - The Salt Lake Tribune
Holiday Reading for Financial Advisers: Medicare Tax, LinkedIn ...
By Lauren Foster
As surprising as this may seem, there was more to the business news cycle over the past few days than all the to-ing and fro-ing over the fiscal cliff. Here are some of the articles I found interesting — and sometimes offbeat — in case you ...
Enterprising Investor
9 Recent Medicare, Medicaid Issues | RACs / ICD-9 / ICD-10
By bob@beckersasc.com (Bob Herman)
Here are eight issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent.
Becker's Hospital Review
Dec. 21 news: Fiscal cliff, mental illness, Medicare, gun costs ...
By Dan
Year-end fiscal negotiations continue to stall; 117 million Medicare claims denied in 2010, prompting more aggressive senior response; and Georges Benjamin, APHA executive director, discusses gun deaths with Huffington Post. Read these ...
Public Health NewswirePublic...

Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Heavy price: Medicare overpaying for back braces - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: WASHINGTON (AP) — Internet sale price for a standard back brace: $99.99.
news.yahoo.com/heavy-price-medicare-overpaying-back-brac...


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