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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Google Alert - Medicare

News9 new results for Medicare
 
A grand bargain on Medicare - Could it be for real?
Philly.com (blog)
A grand bargain on Medicare - Could it be for real? The stakes are huge. Medicare will drive increases in federal spending more than any other expense in coming decades. And the lives and health of tens of millions of elderly and disabled Americans are ...
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Philly.com (blog)
Outside Opinion: Proposed 'rebates' for Medicare Part D could destroy Illinois ...
Chicago Tribune
Some Democrats are pushing for Medicaid-style "rebates" in Medicare Part D. In essence, this move would force drug companies to reimburse the federal government a preset amount for every drug sold to low-income Part D enrollees. With these rebates in ...
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Identity thieves impersonating Medicare employees to target senior Texans
Your Houston News
State authorities are warning senior citizens to be wary of identity thieves who are posing as Medicare officials in an attempt to steal seniors' sensitive personal information. According to recent complaints received by the Texas Attorney General's ...
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Deadbeat Illinois: Expedited pay helps smaller pharmacies
Galesburg Register-Mail
GALESBURG — Pharmacies are not immune to the state's backlog in vendor payments, but the transferring of some patients to a new Medicare plan has helped smaller shops keep their doors open. With the creation of Medicare Part D, pharmacists filling ...
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Sex Change Surgery Won't Be Covered By Medicare, U.S. Says
Medical Daily
The White House on Friday overturned a bid from further down in the administration to allow Medicare to pay for sex-change surgeries. "[W]e are no longer opening the national coverage determination for reconsideration," a spokesman for the U.S. ...
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Medical Daily
Feds have questions about La public hospital deals
San Francisco Chronicle
(AP) — The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have questions about Louisiana's plan to provide extra federal money to private hospitals that run state hospitals. Those supplemental Medicaid payments are key to Gov. Bobby Jindal's plan ...
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South NJ doctor pleads guilty to healthcare fraud
San Francisco Chronicle
Page 1 of 1. CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A southern New Jersey physician who owns a business that provides home-based medical services has admitted billing Medicare for lengthy visits to elderly patients that they did not receive. Lori Reaves recently pleaded ...
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On Healthcare Payment Policy, Maryland and Massachusetts Are Aligning
Boston.com
Ironically, the pro-market Reagan Administrative was responsible for creating the most tightly regulated payment structure in U.S. history when it implemented the Medicare Hospital Prospective Payment System (PPS) in 1983 with the accompanying ...
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Turn sick tourists away, ALP told
The Australian
The Australian last week revealed the states wanted greater monitoring and compliance checks for foreign workers, students and tourists, concerned they were using public hospitals in greater numbers. Medicare-ineligible patients left unpaid hospital ...
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Web1 new result for Medicare
 
How Will Immigration Reform Intersect With Medicare? - Kaiser ...
In this pair of stories, news outlets examine whether immigration reform will stress the Medicare program as well as what hospitals are doing to address the ...
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