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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
Senate Panel Clears Medicare Nominee
Wall Street Journal
The Senate Finance Committee voted Tuesday to advance the nomination of Marilyn Tavenner to formally head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, bringing the former hospital executive one step closer to becoming the programs' first confirmed ...
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Medicare Rate Decision Came Two Weeks Before Announcement
Businessweek
The Obama administration decided March 15 to scale back a proposed cut in Medicare payments to health insurers, two weeks before the information may have been tipped to stock traders, according to Senator Charles Grassley. Grassley, an Iowa ...
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Utah cancer clinics turning away Medicare patients
Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune. First Published Apr 23 2013 01:01 am • Last Updated Apr 23 2013 01:01 am. Cuts to Medicare are driving Utah cancer clinics to turn away patients and refer them instead to hospitals for treatment. Oncologists say the cuts, ordered ...
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The myths that undermine Medicare and Social Security
Baltimore Sun
Many conservatives declare that these terms mean that there should be no new revenue, only spending cuts to programs such as Social Security and Medicare. They also propose to reduc cost of living adjustments for all Social Security recipients, a group ...
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MBC Helps Internal Medicine Specialists in Florida Tackle Medicare & Medicaid ...
Wall Street Journal
This dismal state of payment owes mainly to the fact (apart from Florida being a low fee center) that the services provided by internal medicine specialists come under Medicaid which involves much lower rates than Medicare. To bring about a balance ...
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Medicare plan can't sue survivors in federal court - 9th Circuit
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court has limited the circumstances when a private health insurer that offers a Medicare Advantage plan may sue to recoup what it paid for a covered individual's medical expenses. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on ...
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Thomson Reuters News & Insight
SelectHealth Receives Senior Choice Gold Award for Excellence in 2013 ...
Wall Street Journal
SelectHealth receives national recognition for the cost-sharing effectiveness and value in the design of its 2013 medical and Part D prescription drug benefits for Medicare beneficiaries. SelectHealth Advantage(SM) is the only Medicare Advantage plan ...
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Obama sends Congress $3.8 trillion spending plan
WRCB-TV
By including proposals to trim Social Security and Medicare, the government's two biggest benefit programs, Obama is hoping to entice Republicans to consider tax increases. "I have already met Republicans more than halfway, so in the coming days and ...
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US sues Novartis, alleging kickbacks to pharmacies
Chicago Tribune
(Reuters) - The U.S. government filed a civil fraud lawsuit against Novartis AG on Tuesday, accusing a unit of the Swiss drug maker of causing the Medicare and Medicaid programs to pay tens of millions of dollars in reimbursements based on fraudulent, ...
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Medicare fraudsters swindle millions from the feds
City Pages
It also urged the feds to audit Riverside's Medicare and Medicaid payments. Yet charges of fraud weren't enough for bureaucrats to fully close the spigot. The money continued to flow. It would take another eight years before the state had finally had ...
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Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Obama budget signals quicker trigger on Medicare pay cuts ...
Physicians and hospitals express concerns about the White House budget's potential impact on pay, including a provision to accelerate work of a Medicare ...
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