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Thursday, February 28, 2013

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News9 new results for Medicare
 
Hospital Readmissions for U.S. Medicare Patients Decline
Bloomberg
Hospital readmission rates for Medicare patients are dropping after increasing for more than five years as the 2010 U.S. health-care law begins levying penalties for excessive numbers of repeat patient visits. Thirty-day readmission rates fell to 17.8 ...
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Insurers: Nearly all seniors happy with Medicare Advantage
The Hill (blog)
"These steep cuts to Medicare Advantage will result in seniors losing the benefits they like and rely on today," said Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of AHIP, in a statement Thursday. The survey, commissioned by AHIP, found extremely high satisfaction ...
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Medicare Paid $5.1 Billion for Inadequate Nursing Homes
Bloomberg
Medicare, the U.S. health program for the elderly and disabled, paid $32.2 billion to nursing homes in the 2012 fiscal year. The inspector general today recommended that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services strengthen regulations on care ...
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Humana to keep growing with Medicare, new CEO says
The Courier-Journal
In 2012, Humana got about $25 billion — or 64 percent of its revenue — from Medicare Advantage, a program whereby the federal government pays insurers a fixed amount to provide health care for seniors who sign up for the company's coverage.
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MEDICARE PAYING FOR POOR NURSING HOMES
FOX News Radio
Government investigators have found that Medicare paid $5.1 billion to nursing homes that didn't meet the basic requirements of patient care. FOX News Radio's Bill Vitka reports: Audio clip: Listen to mp3 clip. The help that seniors need from a nursing ...
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LETTER: Make Voice Heard On Medicare Survey
Hartford Courant
If you have Medicare coverage, you may receive the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey in the coming weeks, giving you an opportunity to rate your satisfaction with your Medicare health insurance and doctors. The Centers for ...
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New income limits released for Medicare's assistance programs
Your Houston News
Recognizing that health care costs can be a big part of older and disabled Texans' budgets, Medicare has assistance programs and Texas Health and Human Services Commission just released the new income limits for the programs. Benefits counselors ...
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Data Center: Annual Medicare, Medicaid spending in California tops $100 billion
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
The federal and state government spent $46 billion on Medicaid (Medi-Cal), a health care program for the poor, and the federal government spent $59 billion on Medicare, a health care program for the elderly, in 2011, according to recent estimates from ...
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No Ruckus About Medicare Cuts in Sequester
Jackson Free Press
Automatic cuts taking effect Friday — the "sequester" in Washington-speak — would reduce Medicare spending by about $100 billion over a decade. But Obama had put on the table $400 billion in health care cuts, mainly from Medicare. And Republicans ...
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Blogs2 new results for Medicare
 
Senate Hearing on Modernization Efforts for Medicare and Medicaid ...
Jonathan Blum, the acting principal deputy administrator and director of the Center of Medicare at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on a progress report on the modernization of ...
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Medicare paid $5.1B for poor nursing home care - seattlepi.com
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 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 ...
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Web2 new results for Medicare
 
CMS National Training Program | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
The CMS National Training Program is celebrating its 17th year of excellence in providing consistent, accurate, and reliable information about the programs that ...
www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Training/.../index.html
Medicare Needs Fixing, but Not Right Now - NYTimes.com
New cost-saving methods have kindled hope among some scholars that Medicare could achieve savings just by cleaning out the health care system's waste.
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