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| Medicare-Fraud Tip Rewards Boosted to $10 Million by US Businessweek Tips that uncover Medicare fraud may be worth as much as $10 million for whistle-blowers, a boost from a maximum payout of $1,000, as the government seeks to reduce misuse of the health program. The action to raise the potential payments, modeled after ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Sen. Harkin has a hold on Obama's Medicare pick. What gives? - Washington Post Washington Post (blog) Congress has cut away nearly $6 billion in funding to help keep doctor payments stable. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, under Tavenner's leadership as acting administrator, has used another $454 million to help build the federal exchange. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Turning 65, Medicare, Junk Mail Tucson Citizen If you are turning 65 in the next four months, you are getting lots of mail from Medicare Advantage plans and Medicare supplement companies. Not all of this mail is junk, but some pieces have some questionable information in them. Anne is turning 65 in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare whistleblower program increases maximum reward to $9.9M The Hill (blog) "The IRS program has proved to be highly successful in generating leads that returned far greater sums than the existing Medicare [Incentive Reward Program] IRP, which limited rewards to 10 percent of the first $10,000 of the final amount collected ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| How Medicare Fraud Became the Nation's Most Lucrative Crime LA Weekly When the scheme was discovered, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) finally halted the hospital's payments. But in the eyes of Jackson Lee, a meager $116 million theft was hardly cause to rush to judgment. Her husband, Elwyn Lee, once ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bush's costly Medicare legacy Washington Examiner Saying that Medicare Part D is a "fiscally sober entitlement plan" is sort of like saying that somebody is quite temperate — for a heroine addict. In 2011, according to the Medicare Trustees, the federal government spent $53 billion on prescription ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US Accuses Novartis Of Kickbacks Fox Business ... pharmacies that were based on undisclosed financial, rather than independent critical, considerations," according to the lawsuit. Medicare and Medicaid collectively accounted for 47% of total Myfortic sales by specialty pharmacies, according to the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Savings on the way for many Chicago-area Medicare patients Chicago Tribune Medicare patients in most of Cook and DuPage counties will have lower out-of-pocket costs starting this summer for a range of medical supplies like walkers, oxygen, powered wheelchairs and diabetic test strips. As many as 125,000 patients in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare eligibility to spike health care cost for resident Thegardenisland.com The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in January gave a five-star service rating to Kaiser Permanente's 2013 Senior Advantage plan. CMS developed the rating system for health plans that maintain all Medicare Advantage, and despite the strong ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| New York physician advocates Medicare for all - WVPubcast.org By Beth Vorhees April 24, 2013 · The President of Physicians for a National Health Program believes there should be Medicare for every one. Dr. Andrew Coates is an internist in Albany, New York. He's speaking at the University of Charleston Thursday night. West Virginia Public Broadcasting News |
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| Detroit Home Health Company Employee Pleads Guilty to Role ... - FBI Sharma admitted that she knew that these documents would be used by these companies to submit claims to Medicare for home health services that were not ... www.fbi.gov/.../detroit-home-health-company-employee-plea... | ||
| Senate panel backs Obama nominee for Medicare/Medicaid chief ... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee to oversee Medicare and Medicaid won the backing of a Senate panel on Tuesday, clearing the ... www.reuters.com/.../us-usa-healthcare-tavenner-idUSBRE93M... |
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