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| Amid concerns about overpayments, HHS notes small number of Medicare ... ModernHealthcare.com HHS' inspector general's office says the $124 billion Medicare Advantage program is the focus of very few investigations from fraud-hunters—a conclusion that comes on the heels of a string of audits alleging hundreds of millions of dollars of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tougher rules being put in place to go after Medicare scammers Press Herald The friend's mother had received a call from someone claiming to be from Medicare who was offering to provide some free medical equipment. All that was needed to complete the transaction was a Medicare number. I quickly replied that the phone call was ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wonkbook: Four out of five Medicare doctors to fail quality test Washington Post (blog) Wonkbook's Number of the Day: 10 percent. Any hikes of health insurance premium rates greater than 10 percent must receive approval from the federal government, following a statute in the Affordable Care Act. Could such rate hikes be justified ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare overpaid Scooter Store by millions San Antonio Express The Scooter Store received as much as $87.7 million in Medicare overpayments from 2009 to 2011, an independent auditor found, but the New Braunfels company only has to repay $19.5 million. Two U.S. senators last month sent a letter to the Centers for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Time to Make a Down Payment on Medicare Reform Heritage.org (blog) The editorial board of The Washington Post, no organ of conservative opinion, is absolutely right: "Medicare as we know it is not sustainable," and the "ultimate solution" is structural reform. Bingo. The right structural reform is to expand Medicare's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Upcoming session to help explain Medicare parts McPherson Sentinel K-State Research and Extension, McPherson County will offer an educational session to help you understand Medicare and the different parts. The sessions will be offered at 10 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. Jan. 24 at the McPherson County Extension Office at 600 W. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Man wanted for Medicare fraud Monitor A fugitive on a federal most wanted list is accused of stealing information from McAllen doctors to defraud Medicare of thousands of dollars without ever setting foot in the city. Pedro Luis Perez, 50, fraudulently used the names and provider numbers ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Merkley: Keep Medicare, get out of war Albany Democrat Herald (blog) But, he added, the deal did provide extensions in unemployment payments that affect more than 30,000 Oregon families and halted a projected 25 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement payments. "It didn't give us long-term stability, it just moved the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| KHN Analyzes Regional Variations In Medicare Quality Payment Program Kaiser Health News In Medicare's new program that ties about $1 billion in payments to quality of care, hospitals in Fort Wayne, Ind., are faring the best on average while hospitals in Washington, D.C., are doing the worst, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New York Times Wages War on Medicare and Social Security Bay Area Indymedia "The solution, most experts agree, is to have Medicare pay doctors and other health care providers fixed sums to manage a patient's care and then let the doctors decide which services are truly necessary." In other words, let providers and bureaucrats ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Stories I'd like to see : CJR Medicare meddling, the guns of Westchester, and Al Gore's payday ... Beyond that, either of those tidbits would be a good lead-in for a broader story about the more typical type of congressional intervention when it comes to Medicare. CJR | ||
| OpEdNews - Article: New York Times Wages War on Medicare and ... Article: New York Times Wages War on Medicare and Social Security - The record of America's newspaper of record is deplorable. It supports wealth, power, privilege and dominance. It backs corporate interests. It spurns popular ones. OpEdNews | ||
| You Can Have Your Medicare / Medicaid Cake and Eat it With Better ... By Yevgeniy Feyman While 11th hour negotiations prevented the country from toppling over the fiscal cliff, we're still teetering on the edge. Most provisions of the sequester were simply pushed back by two months (to March 1st) and the deal included no reform to ... Medical Progress Today |
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