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Friday, February 22, 2013

Google Alert - Medicare

News10 new results for Medicare
 
St. Joseph receives Medicare certification
Baltimore Sun
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center said Friday that it has received a new Medicare provider agreement, allowing it to again seek reimbursement for treating patients on the federal government's health program. The Towson hospital has not ...
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Eventually a Bargain on Medicare -- Grand or Otherwise
Huffington Post
There are more than enough reasons for most Democrats to dismiss the current Republican talking points on Medicare. Republicans quite recently lost a national election after putting their most prominent proponent of Medicare cuts, Paul Ryan, on the ...
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Is Medicare Profitable?
Slate Magazine (blog)
This comes up as a subplot in Steven Brill's magnum opus on hospital pricing, but it's worth directly noting that one staple of the lobbying around Medicare provider payments is hospitals' whining that they lose money treating Medicare patients due to ...
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Slate Magazine (blog)
Man pleads guilty in Medicare fraud conspiracy
San Francisco Chronicle
Authorities say Medicare information obtained from people receiving the benefits was sold to home health care companies in the Detroit area. Those companies submitted claims for services not provided or not medically necessary. Medicare was billed for ...
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Illinois Wins Federal Nod for Medicaid/Medicare Coverage Plan
Fox Business
Friday's approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is just the fourth thus far, following approved projects in Massachusetts, Ohio and Washington. Critics have questioned whether the federal government is shifting too many patients ...
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Wisconsin hospitals losing millions in Medicare money
Appleton Post Crescent
WASHINGTON — Wisconsin hospitals have lost nearly $17 million in Medicare reimbursements over the past couple of years because of an arcane provision in the health care law. Some call it the "Bay State Boondoggle." Others have dubbed it the ...
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'Crushing blow'
ModernHealthcare.com
15—proposed Medicare Advantage and Part D plan payment and policy changes that drew the ire of trade group America's Health Insurance Plans and sent health insurance company shares tumbling the following week. Days after the notice, HHS issued its ...
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What Is Medicare?
Bloomberg
... Bloomberg's video to your playlist. Sign in. Statistics Report. Published on Feb 22, 2013. Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- On today's "Bloomberg University," Dominic Chu looks at Medicare. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." (Source ...
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Harrisburg-area ambulance owner pleads guilty in Medicare fraud case
FOX43.com
According to U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith, Sivchuk was indicted in January 2011 on multiple False Statement and Medicare Fraud charges. The Indictment alleged that between January 2009 and June 2011 Sivchuk perpetrated a scheme to defraud Medicare ...
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Florida hospitals seek fairness in Medicare payments
Florida Today
"For no other reason than the state of Massachusetts found a way to manipulate the regulations, Florida loses $36 million-plus annually in Medicare payments for services that were rendered," he said. "So the people of Florida end up having to pick up ...
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Blogs2 new results for Medicare
 
Experts: Florida's Medicare turnaround paves the way for ...
By Chris McGreal, The Guardian
Supporters of Barack Obama's health reforms are hailing Florida governor Rick Scott's decision to abandon his opposition to a core provision of Obamacare as a "tipping point" likely to force the hand of other Republicans still attempting to ...
The Raw Story
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog: Article on Reforming Medicare
By Trusts EstatesProf
Daniel P. Kessler (Professor, Law School, Graduate School of Business, and Hoover Institution, Stanford University) recently published his article entitled Reforming Medicare, 65 Tax L. Rev. 81 (2012). The introduction to the article is available ...
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog

Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Obama's Not-So-Secret Medicare Plan | New Republic
For some time now, Republicans have been saying that wealthy seniors should pay more for Medicare. "You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about ...
www.newrepublic.com/.../david-brooks-obama-and-medicare


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