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| Medicare levy increase to fund NDIS ABC Online JULIA GILLARD: What that means is for an Australian who is on an average income of say $70,000 a year, that they would be asked to contribute around $1 a day in extra Medicare levy to create disability care, to get the peace of mind that will come with ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare Should Pay for Patients, Not Treatments Bloomberg The Engelberg proposals -- spearheaded by Mark McClellan, who ran the Medicare program under President George W. Bush -- have been embraced by health-care leaders including former Health and Human Services Department Secretaries Michael ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare costing $250 more under Labor Herald Sun THE average Medicare levy has grown by nearly $250 to $1120 under Labor - and much faster than during the Coalition's reign. Amid speculation the levy will be increased to 2 per cent, the Australian Taxation Office published new statistics yesterday ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Aetna said lower costs, higher premiums boosted profit Reuters (Reuters) - Aetna Inc (AET.N) on Tuesday reported a first-quarter profit that beat analyst expectations as customers used medical services lightly and revenue in the health insurer's Medicare and Medicaid businesses rose 7 percent due to higher premiums. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tenet Healthcare Swings to 1st-Quarter Loss Amid Year-Earlier Medicare ... Wall Street Journal Through Monday's close, the stock has more than doubled in the past year, including an increase of 6.5% on Monday amid signs that hospital companies will receive more in the way of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements for inpatient care than many ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare levy rise funds disability plan The Australian "The choice that I and my colleagues have made is that DisabilityCare Australia should be supported by a 0.5 per cent increase in the Medicare levy," she told reporters in Melbourne. This would take the total annual Medicare levy on wage earners to two ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare levy hike to pay for the national disability insurance scheme Herald Sun The federal government is seriously considering increasing the Medicare levy from 1.5 to 2 per cent after Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned "urgent and grave" decisions were needed to cope with a $12 billion hit to tax revenue. The Daily Telegraph ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Drugmakers Get Reprieve in Medicare Cost-Cutting Panel Inaction Businessweek Spending in Medicare, the federal health program for the elderly and disabled, has been growing so slowly that the Independent Payment Advisory Board wasn't triggered for 2015, the first year it could have acted, the actuary for the Centers for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare levy hike to help fund the NDIS will cost taxpayers $1 a day: PM The Australian The Prime Minister said her plan to lift the Medicare levy from 1.5 to 2 per cent would cost average Australians $1 more a day from July 1, 2014. The estimated $3.3 billion raised from the new levy would be placed into a special account that would be ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| South Florida Is Ground Zero for Medicare Fraud - Page 1 - News ... Driving through Hialeah, where strip malls line boulevards like concrete-and-metal kudzu, a federal agent offers a reporter $1 for every strip mall he can spot that doesn't house a medical business. Let's just say the r. Miami New Times | Complete Issue | ||
| Why we'll happily pay the Medicare levy (just don't call it a tax) - Crikey By Crikey The government wants to increase the Medicare levy to help support the national disability insurance scheme. Amber Jamieson and Sasha Petrova report on politicians' historical love of levies. Crikey | ||
| Julia Gillard announces 0.5 per cent rise in Medicare levy to fund the ... JULIA Gillard has confirmed workers will face a $300-a-year tax increase on average through the Medicare levy if she's re-elected to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Daily Telegraph | Top Stories | ||
| General Dynamics to Help CMS Run Medicare Info Systems; Marcus ... By Ross Wilkers General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has won a potential $19.9 million contract to maintain and update systems for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to manage information on Medicare beneficiary eligibility. The company will also ... GovCon Wire |
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| ROE: Pound the Medicare board before it hammers the elderly ... There are several unattractive parts of the Affordable Care Act, but perhaps the most unattractive is a little-discussed board that has the power to dramatically ... www.washingtontimes.com/.../pound-the-medicare-board-bef... | ||
| Last chance for quality reporting before Medicare penalty kicks in ... Bonuses soon will run out and be replaced by pay cuts for noncompliance, but physicians and the Medicare agency are exploring alternatives to stop reductions . www.amednews.com/article/20130429/government/.../1/ | ||
| Retirement expert: Medicare already means-tested - Science Daily The Obama administration's controversial proposal to means-test Medicare recipients has one small problem -- the Medicare program is already means- tested, ... www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130429164919.htm | ||
| More Money From Medicare Cushions Obamacare Blow (CYH, HCA ... The Motley Fool - Medicare will now pay hospitals more money, softening a dreaded part of Obamacare. These 5 stocks are now worth $1.5 billion more as a ... www.fool.com/.../more-money-from-medicare-cushions-obam... | ||
| CMS Plans To Increase Medicare Hospital Payments By 0.8 ... The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the proposed increase Friday, which will raise payments for services that elderly and disabled ... www.kaiserhealthnews.org/.../medicare-news-roundup.aspx |
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