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| With No Confirmed Medicare Chief for 6 Years, Obama Tries Again New York Times (blog) President Obama has renominated Marilyn B. Tavenner to run the agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid, and his action provided a reminder that the agency has been without a Senate-confirmed chief for more than six years. By any measure, the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Meet Marilyn Tavenner, the Medicare nominee no one expects to win confirmation Washington Post (blog) President Obama surprised no one with his nominee for Medicare head: Marilyn Tavenner, the same woman who has already run the agency as acting director for over a year now. Before that, she served as deputy Medicare administrator. And before that ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| PBS Ties Menendez to Medicare Fraud Case, But Ignores Prostitution Scandal NewsBusters (blog) PBS continued the liberal media tradition Thursday of ignoring Sen. Robert Menendez's prostitution scandal. Granted, the taxpayer-subsidized network found time to mention Menendez during its NewsHour, but only for a 24-second blurb as part of its ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tavenner Nominated Again To Lead Medicare Kaiser Health News The Obama administration on Thursday made its second formal nomination of Marilyn Tavenner to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Ms. Tavenner was first nominated for the post in November 2011 and has been the acting administrator ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Rural hospitals up against more than just Medicare Memphis Business Journal Baptist Memorial CFO Don Pounds said his hospital system is 'appreciative' of extended Medicare funding this year for rural hospitals, even though it will still operate at a loss on Medicare patients. Cole Epley: Staff writer- Memphis Business Journal ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Senators Coburn and McCaskill target Medicare provision benefitting ... Boston.com WASHINGTON -- The "Bay State boondoggle," as a Medicare windfall to Massachusetts hospitals has come to be known by critics, may be seeing its last days. Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, and Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Judge agrees to WakeMed settlement involving false Medicare billing Triangle Business Journal (blog) As it turns out, WakeMed will pay an $8 million penalty and not immediately face criminal charges in a case in which the U.S. Attorney's Office alleged it committed Medicare fraud. The order was signed by U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle, but ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| House GOP Seeks To Change Medicare Doctor Payment Formula Kaiser Health News House Republicans are launching a renewed effort to repeal Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) reimbursement formula, reaching out to Democrats and the medical community in favor of replacing yearly "fixes" with a permanent change in the system. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Oklahoma Medicare patients save $29 million in prescription drug costs Tulsa World Oklahoma Medicare patients saved more than $29 million on prescription drug costs last year - an average of $577 each - because of reforms in the Affordable Care Act, according to a federal report released Thursday. The federal health-care law makes ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| HHS figures tell 2 stories about Medicare drug spending ... By Eric Palmer A Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report says Medicare recipients have saved $5.7 billion on prescription drugs in the last two years since the new healthcare law added benefits to close the so-called "doughnut hole. FiercePharma News |
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| How Medicare Beneficiaries Can Save Money on Prescription Drugs ... Tips on finding the best Medicare drug plan—and getting the most from it. www.usnews.com/.../how-medicare-beneficiaries-can-save-mo... | ||
| Obama nominates Tavenner to lead Medicare and Medicaid | Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday renominated one of his top healthcare advisers to lead the federal agency responsible for ... www.reuters.com/.../us-usa-healthcare-tavenner-idUSBRE917... | ||
| Medicare expands prepayment audits to include office visits ... A few Medicare administrative contractors are targeting E&M codes and holding back payment for those claims until physicians send medical records supporting ... www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2013/02/04/gvsb0204.htm | ||
| Rep. McDermott: Thanks to Medicare, 'My Brothers and Sisters and I ... (CNSNews.com) - It's the job of government, not families, to take care of grandma , says Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), a member of the House Ways and ... cnsnews.com/.../rep-mcdermott-thanks-medicare-my-brothers-... |
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