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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare Acting Head Marilyn Tavenner Expected to Win Senate Confirmation
Wall Street Journal
Marilyn Tavenner, a nurse who rose to become acting head of Medicare and Medicaid, appears likely to surmount a congressional logjam and become the programs' first confirmed administrator in seven years. In recent years, the job has become so ...
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Obama's intransigent backbench
Washington Post
The man triangulating him, President Obama, has proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare as part of an attempt to find a middle ground in the budget debate. For Sanders (I), a liberal member of the Senate Democratic caucus, the betrayal stung so ...
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The 'Hard To Change' Legacy Of Medicare Payments
NPR (blog)
Currently, Medicare Part A, which covers hospital and skilled nursing home care, and Part B, which covers doctor and outpatient costs, have separate deductible and copayment schemes. This year the Part A hospital deductible is $1,184; the Part B ...
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NPR (blog)
Medicare Is Probing Advantage Rates Leak, Tavenner Says
Bloomberg
Medicare is probing the possible leak of a government decision regarding health insurers' payments for next year, administrator Marilyn Tavenner said. The potential leak is a "huge issue," Tavenner said in testimony today before the U.S. Senate Finance ...
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Why do Medicare, Medicaid and Veterans Affairs deal with drug costs differently?
Philly.com (blog)
Countries sometimes do things differently from other countries or gain reputations for doing certain things well or poorly. But within a country, within the same federal government, does it make sense to do things differently among departments or ...
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Three Questions for Medicare Chief Marilyn Tavenner
Forbes
How will Tavenner's agency (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) increase transparency for cost and quality? In the last decade there has been a push to put more data about hospitals and physicians on the Web. There has been rhetoric about ...
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Medicare Health Insurance Canceled For Some
Mesquite Citizen Journal
That happened to some people in the Mesquite area on April 1 who had Medicare Advantage Plans with Universal Health Care, Inc. (UHC) and Universal Health Care Insurance Company, Inc. (UHIC). Now, those people must scramble to find new health ...
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Obama nominee vows to run Medicare agency as a "business"
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the huge agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid got rare bipartisan praise on Tuesday, but faced tough questions about healthcare reform and a recent controversial decision on ...
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Turning 65: Medicare Enrollment details
Tucson Citizen
I recently wrote about who needs to enroll in Medicare and who doesn't. For some people, enrolling in Medicare is very straightforward, but this is not the case for everyone. Here are some details that can cause confusion about enrolling in Medicare.
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Medicare Effort To Cut Readmissions Isn't Counting Patients Who Come Back To ...
Kaiser Health News
A study published Tuesday says Medicare may be missing factors that lead to post-hospital health problems because it isn't counting many discharged patients who come back to the emergency room but aren't admitted. The study in Annals of Emergency ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
Top 15 Hospitals Most Exposed to Medicare | RACs / ICD-9 / ICD-10
By bob@beckersasc.com (Bob Herman)
Here are the 15 hospitals and health systems that are most exposed to Medicare in Moody's portfolio.
Becker's Hospital Review

Web3 new results for Medicare
 
The 'Hard-To-Change' Legacy Of Medicare Payments : Shots ... - NPR
One possible proposal in President Obama's budget would change the way Medicare patients pay for their care. It's been floated as a possible bipartisan ...
www.npr.org/.../changing-medicare-s-cost-sharing-is-easier-pr...
Sequestration takes a toll on cancer patients, Medicare - The ...
A funny thing happened on Rush Limbaugh's radio show yesterday. The Republican host was complaining about a Washington Post report on sequestration ...
maddowblog.msnbc.com/_.../17616730-sequestration-takes-a-...
Obama Budget Will Propose Changes To Medicare - Kaiser Health ...
Previews of President Barack Obama's budget proposal, which is expected to be released next week, indicate that he will signal a willingness to compromise ...
www.kaiserhealthnews.org/.../obama-budget-previews.aspx?...


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