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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare drug rebates needed
Politico
This week, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, (D-W. Va.), will introduce a bill to ensure Medicare and taxpayers pay lower prices for prescription drugs. The bill, known as the Medicare Drug Savings Act of 2013, would ensure taxpayers get a better deal by requiring ...
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Politico
5 Ways Obama's Budget Would Change Medicare - MedPage Today
MedPage Today
President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget includes a variety of what he says are "manageable" changes for Medicare's 54 million beneficiaries as well as for the hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare providers that serve them. That assessment ...
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Chuck Grassley eyes former aide in Medicare Advantage leak
Politico
A Washington law firm and a former congressional aide are facing scrutiny over a leak of sensitive details on Medicare Advantage payment rates that may have sparked hundreds of millions of dollars in stock trading on insurance companies before the ...
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Politico
Scooter Store Zips Into Bankruptcy
ABC News
Major creditors include the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which, according to the filing, is looking to collect $19.5 million--the amount the Scooter Store previously had agreed to repay the U.S. government after an independent ...
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ABC News
Boomers Turning 65 This Year Need to Know How to Navigate Medicare Eligibility
Wall Street Journal
BELLEVILLE, IL--(Marketwired - Apr 17, 2013) - Each day this year, approximately 10,000 baby boomers will become eligible for Medicare by turning 65. However, not all of them will sign up for Medicare -- with the potential for positive or negative ...
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Looking for Medicare Savings? Look No Further Than Big Pharma
Huffington Post
Yesterday, 19 Senators and several ranking House members introduced the Medicare Drug Savings Act of 2013 to secure over $140 billion in Medicare savings. This straightforward bill, endorsed by over 30 of the nation's leading health and aging advocates ...
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Surgical complications and errors bring in more money for hospitals
CBS News
Hospitals stand to make 190 percent more from procedures on Medicare patients with errors than those without. "This research provides dramatic evidence that hospitals lack financial incentives to invest in improving surgical quality," co-author Dr ...
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CBS News
Obama and Social Security, Medicare
The Missourian
One of the problems with Social Security and Medicare benefits, and they are generous for many recipients who have paid their dues, is that people are living longer, which has had a tremendous impact on the payouts. Seniors also vote. The Democrats ...
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The Most Often Selected EHR Menu Meaningful Use Objectives
Wall Street Journal
SAN ANTONIO, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sevocity, a division of Conceptual MindWorks, Inc. (CMI), has analyzed the December 2012 CMS report EP Recipients of Medicare EHR Incentive Program Payments to determine which Menu Objectives were ...
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The National Health Council: Pillar of medicare, or not
Macleans.ca
The Harper government has notified the National Health Council that it won't be renewing the organization's funding once the 10-year health accord Paul Martin struck with the provinces in 2004 runs out. The critics are raving. Saskatchewan's former ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
Fitch: Obama Budget's Medicare Cuts Would Weigh Heavily on Non ...
By jmclaughlin@beckershealthcare.com (Jim McLaughlin)
President Barack Obama's 2014 budget proposal, which would cut approximately $400 billion from Medicare over the next 10 years, would put a heavy burden on hospitals with thin balance sheets or high Medicare volumes, according to a ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Web1 new result for Medicare
 
AMA reaffirms support for Medicare private contracting - amednews ...
Medicare beneficiaries currently must pay out of pocket if they want to see a physician who doesn't accept Medicare, wrote James L. Madara, MD, the AMA's ...
www.amednews.com/article/20130415/government/.../10/


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