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| Medicare doctors face 29% pay cut in New Year CNN Current federal law requires that Medicare reimbursement rates be adjusted annually to keep spending in line with GDP growth. But Medicare spending has typically outpaced economic growth, so the law requires rates to be cut every year to keep Medicare ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Paying for results, not treatments Los Angeles Times One of the fundamental problems in the U.S. healthcare system is that the most common and straightforward payment method — paying a fee for each service rendered — encourages doctors and hospitals to provide more care, not better care. In fact, it ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare patients may suffer if country goes over fiscal cliff CNN (blog) The cuts are triggered by Medicare's sustainable growth Rate (SGR) – a 26.5% mandated pay cut that for years has been postponed by Congress at the last minute, or retroactively soon after it went into effect. An additional 2% cut is required by the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New House Rules Would Amend Requirements on Medicare Board Roll Call Proposed House rules for the 113th Congress would make it easier for the chamber to change or repeal recommendations from a controversial board tasked with reining in Medicare spending. The Independent Payment Advisory Board is a favorite target of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Obama: Let's reduce Medicare costs The Hill (blog) President Obama said he would agree to "new ways to reduce" U.S. healthcare costs in order to lower bills in Medicare. The comments came during a speech at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the eve of the so-called "fiscal cliff," a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare premiums: How much should you pay? Tucson Citizen The Medicare Part B monthly premium will be $104.90 in 2013. It really should be $400. The federal government is subsidizing most seniors by paying 75% of the cost of their Medicare Part B. This subsidy is what politicians are talking about when they ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Report: For-profit nursing home industry overbilling Medicare The Courier-Journal SAN FRANCISCO — A report by federal health care inspectors in November said the U.S. nursing home industry overbills Medicare $1.5 billion a year for treatments patients don't need or never receive. Not disclosed was how much worse it is when ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| In debt talks, everybody's got to put something on the table Baltimore Sun I would put Medicare and Social Security on the table. We get a lot of expensive and wasteful care at the end of life under Medicare, and we ought to raise the retirement age on folks like me and cut out the cost-of-living increases. From my son's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Seniors' chance to switch to regular Medicare begins today Record-Searchlight North state seniors unsatisfied with their Medicare Advantage plan can switch back to traditional Medicare beginning today. The Medicare Advantage Annual Disenrollment Period will run until Feb. 14, said Debbie Weiland, program manager for HICAP ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Daily Kos: Social Security and Medicare can be made stronger and ... By rss@dailykos.com (pdanoki) By Sonja Rotenberg, Chair Illinois Single Payer Coalition 12/27/12. Some Changes Are Good. Republicans and some Democrats want to cut Social Security (even though it does not contribute one dime to the deficit) and Medicare in the name ... Recent | ||
| Daily Kos: Medicare also going over the "cliff" By rss@dailykos.com (david78209) Perhaps tomorrow I should ask my office manager to telephone all the Medicare patients who have appointments any time in 2013, and tell them not to come in until this is settled. While she's talking to them, she or I should also give them the ... Rescued |
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| Physicians Brace For Medicare 'Doc Fix' Cliff Doctors who treat Medicare patients are bracing for what could be massive cuts for their practices, if Congress fails to reach a deal on budget cuts by New Year's ... www.cnbc.com/.../Physicians_Brace_For_Medicare_039Doc_... |
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