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Friday, March 29, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
The Liberal Medicare Advantage Revolt
Wall Street Journal
However, the ObamaCare true believers who run the Health and Human Services Department don't answer to voters, and they have written draft regulations that cut Medicare Advantage even more deeply than Congress mandated in the Affordable Care Act.
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Medicaid, Medicare beneficiaries in Universal Health plans face April 1 ...
Sun-Sentinel
Addressing Medicare recipients like Penso, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday it is working to ensure Florida beneficiaries enrolled in the Universal Health Care Medicare health plans experience no gap in ...
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White House floats Medicare compromise
MarketWatch (blog)
One idea that the president has reportedly floated with Republican leaders: Changing the structure of Medicare in a way that would increase many retirees' out of pocket costs. Currently, deductibles for Medicare Part A, which covers hospital care, are ...
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Hospitals Question Medicare Rules on Readmissions
New York Times
Medicare, which monitors hospitals' compliance with the new rules, says nearly two-thirds of hospitals receiving traditional Medicare payments are expected to pay penalties totaling about $300 million in 2013 because too many of their patients were ...
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New York Times
Critics: Scooter ads mislead seniors, lead to Medicare abuse
The Decatur Daily
Members of Congress say the ads lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in unnecessary spending by Medicare, which is only supposed to pay for scooters as a medical necessity when seniors are unable to use a cane, walker or regular wheelchair.
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Mower County Senior Center: Class offers Medicare basics
Post-Bulletin
Medicare is a health payer program of the federal government that provides payment coverage support for health and medical care. It was first enacted in 1965 to help those who could not afford health or medical care in their retirement years, or who ...
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Medicare, Medicaid allowed as defendants in suit
Bowling Green Daily News
A federal judge is allowing attorneys for Appalachian Regional Healthcare to add the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a defendant in the health care chain's lawsuit against the managed-care company Coventry and the state of Kentucky.
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Medicare/Medicaid to Pay For Sex Change?
National Review Online (blog)
As the technocrats seriously ponder imposing health care rationing, government bureaucrats have raised a trial balloon that could result in Medicare and Medicaid paying for sex change surgeries. From the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...
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Research Roundup: Hospitals Will Benefit From Medicaid Expansion ...
Kaiser Health News
The Heritage Foundation: Medicare's Rising Costs – And The Urgent Need For Reform – "The rising cost of Medicare is placing an increasing burden on current and future taxpayers, as well as exacerbating the poor financial condition of a program on which ...
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Woman Gets 13 Years for Medicare Fraud
Courthouse News Service
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A Southern California woman on Thursday was sentenced to 13 years in prison for paying kickbacks for names of patients she used to get $8 million in bogus Medicare claims. Uben Ogbu Rush, 54, of Carson, submitted more than $15 ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
Prison Planet.com » In shift, Medicare would pay for sex-change ...
By admin
For the first time since 1981, when it dubbed sex-change operations "experimental," Medicare has opened the door to covering transexual operations, adding to the growing list of operations that would be allowed under Obamacare. Acting on ...
Prison Planet.com

Web2 new results for Medicare
 
Talk of Medicare Changes Could Open Way to Budget Pact
Recent statements from both Democrats and Republicans show a possible way forward in curbing Medicare costs, suggesting a lingering, if slight, chance for a ...
www.nytimes.com/.../common-ground-in-washington-for-me...
Medicare Uncovered: the insurers' latest campaign : Columbia ...
The insurance rep told Raley that an industry-backed advocacy group called the Coalition for Medicare Choices would be phoning beneficiaries in the county ...
www.cjr.org/.../medicare_uncovered_the_insurers_latest_cam...


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