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Monday, March 25, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
AHIP: 40000 seniors oppose Medicare Advantage cuts
The Hill (blog)
The reported backlash comes as AHIP continues its own assault on the proposed 2.2 percent payment cut set to hit next year, the latest in a series of reductions to Medicare Advantage. The group is pushing reports; polls; and advertisements opposing the ...
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More alleged Medicare and Medicaid fraud…
Dallas Morning News (blog)
It seems like there's a new allegation of Medicare or Medicaid fraud almost every other day. The most recent case comes out of Houston, where a 21-count federal indictment was unsealed today that charges one of the owners of a medical equipment ...
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Medicare replacement encourages competition
The Tennessean
In my last column, I argued that for all the undeniable woes of the Republican Party, the unfurling of Obamacare represents a huge vulnerability for Democrats. The Democratic health reform bill is economically nonsensical and politically unpopular. A ...
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States that will feel the sequester squeeze Medicare Advantage
MarketWatch (blog)
Medicare Advantage recipients in Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Texas and California will be hit the hardest by sequester cuts, according to new data released last week from management consultant Oliver Wyman, obtained for the trade group America's ...
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Social Security, Medicare are not entitlements
StandardNet
After reading Our View, March 25, "Thumbs up, thumbs down," this is my view: I was taxed for Social Security and Medicare, I could not opt out, by force of law I had to pay into these programs, so don't call them entitlements. Thomas B. Spencer. Roy ...
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Federal court trial begins Monday into alleged Medicare fraud
The Advocate
A second criminal trial opened Monday in Baton Rouge federal court for two New Orleans residents facing allegations of multimillion-dollar Medicare frauds. The case is complicated by the murder in July of a federal witness. It features claims by ...
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Medicare Payment Rates Should Not Be Based on Region, IOM Panel Says
California Healthline
A congressional proposal that bases Medicare reimbursement rates on a "geographic value index" would unfairly reward or penalize health care providers, according to an interim report released Friday by an Institute of Medicine panel, Kaiser Health News ...
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Should Medicare Pay Be Tied to Geography?
Health News Florida
Doctors and hospital administrators in parts of the country that are heavy Medicare spenders can relax their grips on their prescription pads and billing computers. An influential panel on Friday panned the idea raised in Congress to pay them less for ...
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Report: Geographic Medicare Spending Gaps May Be Due to Waste, Overuse
Becker's Hospital Review
Wasteful spending or unnecessary services could be the cause, which could lead some policy makers to recommend that CMS cut payment rates to regions on which it spends a disproportionate amount of Medicare dollars, so that these providers would be ...
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Financial education events involve student loans, Medicare, spending
McPherson Sentinel
New to Medicare from 10 a.m. to noon April 6 at the Salina Public Library, Prescott Room – 301 W. Elm, Salina. This free educational program is designed for those new to Medicare. The program will cover Medicare eligibility, how and when to apply, what ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
Why today's seniors object to the dissolution of Medicare | MinnPost
By Myles Spicer
Recently, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., regurgitated his previously rejected plan to turn Medicare into a private insurance voucher program, and it is still part of the GOP budget plans. What is most interesting to me (as an 80-year-old senior) is ...
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Web2 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare's Demographic Challenge—and the Urgent Need for Reform
Americans should ignore false promises to keep "Medicare as we know it"—the program is already changing. Under the misnamed Patient Protection and ...
www.heritage.org/.../medicares-demographic-challenge-and-th...
Geographic Variation in Medicare Services — NEJM
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Geographic Variation in Medicare Services.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1302981


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