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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

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News7 new results for Medicare
 
27% Pay Cut Or Not, More Docs To Leave Medicare In 2013
Forbes
The latest Congressional impasse on Medicare payment doctors is expected to increase the number of physicians who will restrict or stop taking patients covered by the federal health insurance program for the elderly. (Photo credit: Wikipedia). With ...
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Forbes
Medicare says medical equipment costs down under pilot program in San ...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
A two-year Medicare cost-cutting experiment in San Bernardino and other areas has been wildly successful, officials say, reducing the price of certain medical equipment by 42 percent and saving the government and taxpayers more than $200 million ...
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Cuts to Some Medicare Payments Provide Offsets for 'Doc Fix'
Roll Call
The Senate-passed fiscal cliff bill would block for one year a scheduled 27 percent cut in reimbursements for Medicare physicians, paid for by familiar cuts and adjustments to other provider payments. The bill (HR 8) would keep reimbursement rates ...
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Fiscal Cliff bill funds Medicare QI-1 program for 2013.
Tucson Citizen
Happy New Year! I read the bill the U.S. Senate passed on New Year's eve, and it includes an extension of funding for the QI-1 program. The QI-1 program pays the Medicare Part B premium for people with monthly income below $1,277 (individual) or $1,723 ...
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Tucson Citizen
Tell Mel: Beware medicare card scams
Lehigh Acres News Star
The number one scam on the Tell Mel hotline last year — not the most clever or heinous, just the one most frequently reported — was from people who received a call about getting a new Medicare card. The caller, who was usually speaking with a very ...
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Switching from Blue Cross/Blue Shield to Medicare Part B
Federal Times (blog)
A. While your wife could disenroll from the Federal Employees Health Benefits program and both of you enroll in Medicare Part B, what she gained by no longer having to pay premiums for the former would likely be offset by the premiums you'd both have ...
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Identifying incident oral and pharyngeal cancer cases using Medicare claims
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Baseline and trend data for oral and pharyngeal cancer incidence is limited. A new algorithm was derived using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database to create an algorithm to identify incident cases of oral and ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
TNT: Negotiations and Fiscal Cliff, Debt Ceiling, Sequester - Daily Kos
By rss@dailykos.com (Vote4Obamain2012)
He would raise the eligibility age from 65 to 67 for Medicare and accept the chained CPI cut. Would he give that away for nothing ? No. He will only agree to that if he got a lot more revenue from the wealthy and more cuts in defense. Would a ...
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