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| Medicare's cost controls can't control an aging population Washington Post (blog) Even then though, the red lines are a lot smaller than the blue lines, the big takeaway being: One huge reason Medicare is becoming more expensive is simple because of population aging. There's not much that reducing prices can do about that ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Walgreen approved for 3 Medicare accountable care organizations Chicago Tribune Physician groups in Texas, Florida and New Jersey agreed to team with Deerfield-based Walgreen, the nation's largest pharmacy chain, to coordinate health care for patients covered by Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare Costs Rose Very Slowly Last Year, Says A New Report Huffington Post (blog) We hear a lot about how Medicare spending is out of control and will bankrupt the federal government and devour the economy if left unchecked. When Congress returns from its pre-inauguration recess and renews its debate on raising the debt ceiling and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare looking for answers in Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Sentinel APTOS -- Medicare officials wonder why the per capita cost for long-term acute care services in Santa Cruz County is the lowest in the nation -- $17 vs. a national average of $80 -- so they sent a team to look for answers. About 50 people gathered ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Obama signs Medicare bill The Hill (blog) Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) took a victory lap Thursday as President Obama signed a bipartisan Medicare bill. The legislation changes the way Medicare collects money from people whose negligence caused a patient to incur medical bills. Murphy said the new ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Feds award 4 new Medicare contracts in Illinois Crain's Chicago Business Medicare Value Partners, which will be operated by Chicago-based Presence Health, the 12-hospital system formed by the 2011 merger of Resurrection Health Care Corp. and Provena Health. • Urbana-Champaign-based Christie Clinic Physician Services. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare preventive services: What's free, what's not Pomerado Newspaper Group Medicare covers a wide array of preventive services to help you stay healthy, but it's important to know which services are totally covered, and which ones will generate some out-of-pocket costs. Free services. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| HHS report: 'ObamaCare' is keeping Medicare costs low The Hill (blog) Both the Medicare actuaries and the Congressional Budget Office have also projected that low cost increases will continue for several years — largely because of the healthcare law's cuts in payments to insurance companies and healthcare providers. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| January sees 106 new Medicare ACOs Healthcare IT News The new year has already seen 106 accountable care organizations (ACOs) participate in the Medicare shared savings program, as federal health officials try to demonstrate that new health reform programs, powered in part by better IT, are starting to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Study: Better work environments can reduce Medicare patient readmissions Birmingham business Journal Improving nurses' work environments can help reduce preventable hospital readmissions that cost Medicare more than $15 billion annually, according to a study led by a nursing professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The study, which Matthew McHugh ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Economist's View: Projected Medicare Spending By Mark Thoma Via an email from Austin Frakt with the subject "should we worry a lot about Medicare growth?," and the answer in the text "It doesn't seem like it. Massively demographically driven. A bit more revenue and it's fixed for a... Economist's View | ||
| Chart of the Day: Medicare Not Really in Such Bad Shape After All ... By Kevin Drum Austin Frakt passes along this chart, which made the rounds yesterday, illustrating the projected growth of Medicare over the next 20 years: Scary! Or is it? As Austin points out, most of the growth is simply due to an aging population. No matter ... Blogs | Mother Jones | ||
| UW Health Selected As Accountable Care Organization in Medicare ... UW Health has been selected as one of 106 new Accountable Care Organizations in Medicare, ensuring as many as 4 million Medicare beneficiaries across the United States now have access to high-quality, coordinated care, Health and ... UW Health News Feed | ||
| HHS IG: Still Not Many Medicare Advantage Fraud Probes Despite ... Elsewhere, 2013's changes to Medicare are coming into focus. Daily Report | ||
| Modernizing Medicare and Medicaid Could Save Feds $542B The federal government, confronting an enormous fiscal challenge, could save up to $542 billion in Medicare and Medicaid spending over the next 10 years through a proven "third strategy" for modernizing health care and improving patient ... InsuranceNewsNet.com - Today's... |
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| More Good News on Medicare | HealthCare.gov As highlighted in the analysis, the Affordable Care Act is helping to put Medicare on a sustainable path for the years ahead so that seniors and people with ... www.healthcare.gov/blog/.../good-news-medicare011013.html |
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