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Friday, April 5, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
Cancer clinics turning away Medicare patients, thanks to the sequester
Fox News
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Cancer clinics across the country are turning away thousands of Medicare patients-- thousands! Why? Well, the clinics are blaming the sequester. Ted Okon is the executive director of the Community Oncology ...
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Obama to propose changes to Medicare and Social Security in new budget
CNN
(CNN) -- President Barack Obama's upcoming budget plan, which according to senior administration officials will include proposed changes to Social Security and Medicare plus some new tax increases in an effort for the president to reach a deal with ...
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Tip to Wall Street on Medicare Rates Draws Scrutiny
Businessweek
At issue is a private e-mail from the Washington research firm Height Analytics LLC to its Wall Street clients that Medicare rates, scheduled to drop under a preliminary decision, would increase instead. The e-mail hit at 3:40 p.m. on April 1, followed ...
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Medicare Cuts Lead Cancer Clinics to Turn Away Patients
Medscape
The federal budget cuts that went into effect April 1 are already beginning to take their toll on cancer patients. Cancer clinics across the United States have begun turning away Medicare patients, according to a report published April 3 in the ...
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Medscape
Mixed Week for Medicare
MarketWatch (blog)
Depending on whom you ask, Medicare either had a great week or a lousy one. (Hint: insurers are happy; doctors and hospitals, less so.) On Monday, the sequestration hit hospitals and doctors, whose reimbursements will fall 2 percent. As the Medicare ...
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Readers share Medicare 'observation status' stories
Enterprise News (blog)
Readers are sharing some shocking stories about how the Medicare 'observation status' rules are hurting elders and their families and probably hospitals and nursing homes as well. Everyone says they have to play within these rules, but they come as a ...
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Big Medicare Advantage cuts won't happen.
Tucson Citizen
I recently wrote about the potential for Medicare Advantage mayhem this fall because of significant payment cuts that were announced in February by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Insurance companies that run Medicare Advantage ...
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Obama to Propose $400 Billion in Medicare Savings
MedPage Today
One move would place greater price controls on drugs paid through Medicare Part D for beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Currently, those drugs are bought through Medicare, rather than Medicaid, where prices are lower and more ...
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17 Recent Medicare, Medicaid Issues — RACs, Fraud & More
Becker's Hospital Review
Here are 17 issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent. 1. A Gallup poll found Medicaid beneficiaries are sicker than their privately insured counterparts, with more than 30 percent of ...
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Obama budget to offer Medicare, Social Security cuts
Politico (blog)
The administration hopes including the cuts -- adopting the chained CPI for Social Security and slashing about $400 billion from Medicare over the next decade -- can persuade Republicans to roll back the cuts in the sequester and agree to further ...
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Blogs4 new results for Medicare
 
NC health secretary on privatizing Medicare: Transparency is 'pretty ...
By David Edwards
The Republican North Carolina Department Health and Human Services (DHHS) secretary this week told reporters asking for information about the state's plan to privatize Medicaid that "transparency can get pretty dangerous." "Already we're ...
The Raw Story
Obama to propose changes to Medicare and Social Security in new ...
By marisapozowgntv
President Barack Obama's upcoming budget will include proposed changes to Social Security and Medicare plus some new tax increases, changes that are an effort for the president to reach a deficit deal with Republicans, according to ...
WGN-TV
Now It's Official: Obama Sells Catfood Futures, Um, Social Security ...
By Yves Smith
President Obama next week will take the political risk of formally proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare in his annual budget in an effort to demonstrate his willingness to compromise with Republicans and revive prospects for a ...
naked capitalism
Under ObamaCare, Medicare to Cover Sexual Disfigurement ...
By Dave Blount
ObamaCare has greatly accelerated Medicare's inevitable decline into bankruptcy. But for the profligate moonbats running the federal government, that is no reason not to spend still more using it to advance depraved social engineering ...
Right Wing News

Web1 new result for Medicare
 
U.S. to boost Medicare Advantage payment rate - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Monday it will increase the payment rate for health insurers that offer coverage through the ...
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