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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Google Alert - Medicare

News10 new results for Medicare
 
You Know That New 3.8% Medicare Tax? Double It
Forbes
For nearly three years Republicans have accused Democrats of double counting the new Medicare tax. But it wasn't the accounting that was doubled so much as the tax obligation. What Democrats did was to effectively force Americans to pay the new ...
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Medicare scammers taking advantage of elderly
WDTN
President and CEO of the Better Business Bureau, John North, said he is receiving more complaints concerning Medicare scams than ever. "In this particular scam from what we're hearing, it is resurfacing. Its been around for a while, but now coming back ...
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Medicare Cracks Down on $14B Hospice Industry
The Fiscal Times
Medicare paid for the hospice benefits of 84 percent of those patients. When used properly to provide dying patients with palliative care instead of continuing futile medical treatments, hospice care can save the government money, research has shown.
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The Fiscal Times
Cuccinelli says Medicare scammers targeting Virginians
WSLS
Virginians are warned to protect their personal identity information following a spate of bogus calls to Medicare beneficiaries across the commonwealth in which callers threaten to terminate coverage or cut off Social Security checks if recipients ...
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The high cost of raising the Medicare age
CNNMoney
If seniors were not allowed to enroll in Medicare until 67 starting next year, federal spending would drop by $5.7 billion in 2014, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. But Americans enrolled both in private health insurance plans and Medicare ...
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Medicare basics: What are the differences between the parts of Medicare?
A Healthier Michigan (blog)
Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, have kidney disease or certain disabilities. Sounds simple, but it can get confusing when people start discussing the different parts of Medicare – A, B, C and D. We're ...
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Local provider forms new accountable care for Medicare users
WickedLocal beverly
Lahey Clinical Performance Network, a member of Lahey Health, has been selected as one of 106 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in Medicare, ensuring as many as 4 million Medicare beneficiaries across the United States now have access to ...
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Presentation looks at pre-Medicare issues
Fremont Tribune
Mary Loftis, UNL Extension assistant and a Nebraska Senior Health Insurance Information Program volunteer, will be holding an informational presentation on pre-Medicare issues. The program will be given at 7 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Washington County UNL ...
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Seven arrested in Medicare fraud scheme involving four Oakland County health ...
MLive.com
Six Detroit-area residents and one man from the Chicago area are charged in a scheme that investigators say cost Medicare $22 million in charges for home health care that was never provided. The group is accused of recruiting Medicare beneficiaries an ...
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Medicare paid Florida mental health centers despite license revocation
South Florida Business Journal
The report released on Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) identified Florida, Louisiana and Texas as the states with the most questionably billing among the $219 million Medicare paid to ...
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Blogs5 new results for Medicare
 
Business Roundtable Wants to Increase Medicare and Social ...
By Jon Walker
In roughly a month Washington's focus will again turn to attempts to get a "grand bargain" on deficit reduction when the sequestration.
FDL Action
Daily Kos: One big way to reduce poverty - expand Medicare to ...
By rss@dailykos.com (National Nurses Movement)
With poverty rates spinning perilously out of control in the U.S., it's time to send an unmistakable message to Congress and the White House as they prepare to resume the ongoing obsession with the deficit: End the silence on poverty, don't ...
Recent
Business Roundtable Offers Medicare Plan To Increase Eligibility ...
The Associated Press reports that, under this plan, "people 55 and older would be protected from cuts but younger workers would face significant changes." Meanwhile, CNN Money takes a look at the cost of such a move.
Kaiser Health News Daily Health...
A Program for Combating Poverty -- Stop the Cuts to Social Security ...
By RoseAnn DeMoro, AlterNet
A comprehensive program to combat poverty in America is long overdue.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Business Roundtable attacks Medicare and Social Security ...
By Don McCanne MD
"Medicare and Social Security were not designed to cope with America's new demographic realities. CEOs are calling for gradual changes that will modernize these programs and preserve the safety net for future generations of retirees." ...
PNHP's Official Blog

Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Another Medicare pay cliff-hanger that everyone saw coming ...
Connected coverage - selected articles on trends, challenges and controversies in the changing world of medicine.
www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2013/01/14/edsa0114.htm


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