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Monday, January 7, 2013

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News9 new results for Medicare
 
Dick Armey Medicare Challenge Rejected By Supreme Court
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge from former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and other Social Security recipients who say they have the right to reject Medicare in favor of continuing health coverage from private insurers.
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Husband and wife plead guilty to defrauding Medicare with adult day care center
MLive.com
DETROIT, MI -- Days after his wife pleaded guilty, Marcus Jenkins of Farmington Hills followed suit today and admitted to defrauding Medicare to the tune of $4.7 million, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. Jenkins, 51, pleaded guilty in federal ...
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Upton: Social Security, Medicare under microscope
South Bend Tribune
"We're going from 50 million Medicare beneficiaries today to 80 million by 2030. We're getting 10,000 new seniors (65-year-olds) every single day,'' he said today during a stop in Niles. "Our goal is to protect current seniors, but clearly we have to ...
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Early Study of Outcomes from US Medicare Part D Can't Explain North-South ...
Science Daily (press release)
Jan. 7, 2013 — Patients' access to diabetes and heart failure drugs through U.S. Medicare plans in the first two years of the Part D option did not guarantee proper therapy, researchers at the University of Maryland (UM) found in a nationwide study ...
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Should providers face Medicare penalties for failing to engage patients?
FierceHealthcare
Although the Affordable Care Act encourages shared decision making and patient engagement, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could do more to implement patient decision aids, according to Thursday's article in the New England Journal of ...
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Medicare "doc fix" could shift more costs onto Vermont hospitals
vtdigger.org
The payment remedy carries a price tag just north of $25 billion. Of that amount, $10.5 billion is slated to come from Medicare cuts between 2014 and 2018. Another $4.2 billion is set to come from a reduction in Medicaid payments through the ...
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vtdigger.org
Schumer: Medicare Gets 1 Year Boost At Rural Hospitals
13WHAM-TV
Albion, N.Y. - On Monday, Schumer will announce an extension of a program providing $1.6 million in Medicare payments to three rural hospitals. The program, which expired September 30, extends funding for one year. The payments are retroactive.
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Breast Cancer Screening Costs Driven by High-Tech Approaches
Medscape
Medicare costs of screening for breast cancer exceeded $1 billion during 2006 to 2007, according to results from a new study, with those costs substantially linked to regional variations in the use of new, expensive screening technologies. Still, it ...
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Medscape
Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor HDI Reaches $1 Billion in Corrections
DailyFinance
(NAS: HMSY) —a leading provider of cost-containment services for Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare payers—today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary HealthDataInsights, Inc. (HDI), a Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC), reached ...
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Blogs2 new results for Medicare
 
A Bend in the Medicare Cost Curve? | Via Meadia
By Walter Russell Mead
When we talk about America's fiscal crisis, in large part what we're talking about boils down to spending in one area: health care. Health care spending already accounts for more than 15 percent of U.S. GDP, and programs like Medicare and ...
Via Meadia
Scam warning for Medicare recipients
By Andrew Beckett
State consumer protection officials are issuing a warning about criminals targeting Medicare recipients. The scam comes from a group calling itself "Preferred Benefits to Seniors," which claims the victim needs to order a new Medicare card ...
Wisconsin Radio Network


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