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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
How to cut Medicare: Your Say
USA TODAY
I have to take issue with commentary writer Don Campbell's opinion that we should apply a means test to Medicare benefits based on net worth and not income ("Medicare spending makes me ill: Column"). YOUR SAY INTERACTIVE: Making a way for ...
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Making a way for Medicare: Your Say Interactive
USA TODAY
Some say the age at which one qualifies for Medicare should be increased from 65 to 67. Others think that spending must be cut and that more money and effort should be dedicated to investigating fraud. What do you say? Do you think the program will be ...
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Medicare Paid $5.1B for Poor Nursing Home Care
ABC News
Medicare paid billions in taxpayer dollars to nursing homes nationwide that were not meeting basic requirements to look after their residents, government investigators have found. The report, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human ...
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No ruckus about Medicare cuts in sequester
Sacramento Bee
WASHINGTON -- Hospitals, doctors and other Medicare providers are on the hook for a 2 percent cut under looming government spending reductions. But they're not raising a ruckus. Why? The pain could be a lot worse if President Barack Obama and ...
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GAO: Medicare remains 'high-risk' for over $44 billion in 'improper payments'
Daily Caller
"CMS has not met GAO's criteria to have the Medicare program removed from the High-Risk List. For example, although CMS has made progress in measuring and reducing improper payment rates in different parts of the program, it has yet to demonstrate ...
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Link Medicare Copays, Quality, Congress Told
MedPage Today
WASHINGTON -- Medicare should be allowed to vary patient copays so that beneficiaries pay less for higher-quality, higher-value services, health reform experts told Congress Tuesday. Lawmakers should give Medicare the flexibility to charge patients ...
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GOP doubles down against Lew on Medicare spending
The Hill (blog)
In a letter Tuesday, the lawmakers doubled down on criticism of the Obama administration's failure to respond to warnings about Medicare's future. The group blamed Lew, Obama's nominee to head the Treasury Department, for the administration's inaction ...
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Senators, experts support current Medicare policy
LifeHealthPro
Wholesale cuts in the Medicare program have no political support and will backfire because that will merely shift health care costs elsewhere if implemented, several senators and health care policy experts agreed Wednesday at a Senate hearing on the ...
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AHIP warns Medicare Advantage cuts are 'crushing blow'
FierceHealthPayer
If the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services moves forward with its proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage, it would deal a "crushing blow" to seniors throughout the country, reported The Hilll's Healthwatch. A study conducted for America's Health ...
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Medicare cuts a big worry for nursing homes
York Daily Record
The nursing home reductions would originate from a proposed 2 percent cut in Medicare funding, amounting to $11 billion this year alone, according to the White House budget office. That decrease in funding tied to the so-called sequestration would most ...
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Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Medicare Uncovered: What's in a name? : Columbia Journalism ...
The GOP has designed brand new language that pretties up the notion of Medicare vouchers. Recall that vouchers were at the heart of the plan that Paul Ryan, ...
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