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Saturday, February 9, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
Mr. Cantor looks for middle ground
Washington Post
On one issue, however — reforming Medicare — Mr. Cantor did better. The program's structure, he noted, is still rooted in the standard Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan of 1965, with an "arbitrary division" between insurance for hospital services and ...
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Medicare's 'improve or you're out' rehab policy
The Reality-Based Community
I have been meaning to write about the important court order overturning Medicare's longstanding 'improve or you're out' (of Medicare financed SNF and/or home health) policy for rehabilitation services. Basically, beneficiaries who had plateaued and ...
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New ATRA cut to Medicare Part B Therapy Payments latest destabilizing blow to ...
McKnight's Long Term Care News
With $9 billion in Budget Relief Act sequester cuts to the U.S. skilled nursing facility (SNF) sector now just weeks away following the latest cut of at least $600 million in Medicare Part B therapy payments after passage of the American Tax Relief Act ...
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Solve real issues affecting Medicare
Jackson Clarion Ledger
I submit this letter as the Mississippi area representative for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. I am a long-time resident of Mississippi and an active advocate for the needs of Mississippi citizens. I am a practicing ...
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The Affordable Care Act – A Stronger Medicare Program In 2012
ParamusPost.com
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a second annual report detailing how millions of seniors and people with disabilities with Medicare continued to experience lower costs on prescription drugs and improved benefits in ...
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Prison for head of Medicare fraud ring uncovered by Hinchey aide in Middletown
Times Herald-Record
NEW YORK — The leader of a fraud ring that bilked $100 million from Medicare before a worker in then-Rep. Maurice Hinchey's office in Middletown uncovered the scheme was sentenced Friday to prison time. Federal prosecutors said Armen Kazarian, 47, ...
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Medicare to test new approach to ESRD care
Nurse.com
"This initiative puts Medicare beneficiaries living with end-stage renal disease at the center of their care," CMS Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, RN, BSN, MHA, said in a news release. "Through enhanced care coordination, these beneficiaries ...
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Judge agrees to defer prosecution of WakeMed for false Medicare billing
News & Observer
Though federal investigators discovered that Medicare had been billed for millions of dollars of pricey overnight stays when patients had been treated and released the same day, Boyle said he agreed to defer prosecution of one of Wake County's largest ...
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Cigna Earnings Call Nuggets: Budget Sequestration and Medicare Advantage
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
David Cordani – President and CEO: First, as you frame the Medicare book of business where you started, when you think about our seniors portfolio, let me go back to the HealthSpring model is based on a model that the reimbursement structure with a ...
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Schneiderman catches top NYC hospital overbilling Medicare and Medicaid
NYaltnews
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just announced a $2.3 million settlement with Continuum Health Partners and its flagship hospital, St. Luke's-Roosevelt, after finding that it improperly billed Medicaid and Medicare for out-patient ...
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Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Obama Administration Proposes Eliminating 'Obsolete' Medicare Regs
Doing away with the regulations, which it has deemed are "excessively burdensome," would save an estimated $676 million a year, according to the ...
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