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Friday, April 26, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
US agency moves against Nevada hospital cited for "patient dumping"
Reuters
The Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital was warned it was in violation of Medicare rules governing the discharge of patients and could lose critical funding under the federal healthcare insurance program if it failed to correct the problem. The notice ...
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Your biggest assets are Social Security, Medicare
MarketWatch
They know — without ever quite articulating it in this way — that Social Security and Medicare are the most valuable assets they possess. That's why they are so protective of these programs, despite the best efforts of some to persuade them that the ...
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Medicare Plans to Boost Pay to US Hospitals by 0.8% Next Year
Businessweek
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to raise payments 0.8 percent beginning Oct. 1 for services that elderly and disabled patients receive after being admitted to hospitals, according to a regulatory proposal today. Long-term care ...
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Medicare Part D is worth protecting
Chillicothe Gazette
When it convenes in the future, the IPAB will recommend ways to hold down costs in Medicare. It is expected that some recommendations will restrict access to some medicines and treatments. The IPAB is unaccountable to Congress and its decisions cannot ...
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Medicare card scam prompts warning
St. George Daily Spectrum
ST. GEORGE — Evelyn Hardy was suspicious when she received a phone call earlier this month, informing her that she needed a new Medicare card. When the caller asked for Hardy's bank account number to complete the process, her fears were confirmed, ...
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LA jury finds three guilty in $1.5-million Medicare fraud scheme
Los Angeles Times
The Obama administration has tried to crack down on fraud and abuse in Medicare in hopes of recovering some of the estimated $60 billion lost annually in the federal program. The government's enforcement efforts have taken on added importance at a time ...
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Brunswick man guilty in Medicare fraud scheme
San Francisco Chronicle
First Assistant District Attorney James Durham says 46-year-old Avetik Moskovian and co-conspirators defrauded Medicare of about $1.5 million through a medical equipment company based in Brunswick. Durham says they billed Medicare for services that ...
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Raising eligibility age and reforming some Medicare practices can increase ...
News-Medical.net
Raising the age of eligibility and reforming some Medicare practices can go a long way to making it sustainable, according to three Arizona State University healthcare policy experts. "Given our demographics and the rapidly increasing costs of medical ...
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Cancer is inconvenient, but missing your flight is death - AMERICAblog
AMERICAblog (blog)
In the case of Medicare, thousands of Medicare patients are being turned away from one set of cancer clinics in the New York area alone because of sequester-related cuts in Medicare benefits. The center has been forced to stop providing chemotherapy to ...
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Program offers free Medicare counseling
Lebanon Daily News
The expansion of APPRISE, the state health insurance program run by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, will provide Medicare recipients more convenience and opportunities to receive free counseling services, where they can review their options for ...
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Web4 new results for Medicare
 
Saving Medicare through Patient-Centered Changes — The Case of ...
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Saving Medicare through Patient-Centered Changes — The Case of Injectables.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1213485
Medicare cuts hit cancer patients - San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area oncologists say the mandated federal spending cuts that went into effect this month are putting the squeeze on their ability to administer expensive ...
www.sfchronicle.com/.../Medicare-cuts-hit-cancer-patients-44...
Cashing an IRA and income-related monthly adjustments for ...
If you cashed an IRA two years ago, it may increase your premiums this year. That is because we generally use tax returns from two years ago to figure ...
ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/.../cashing-an-ira-and-income-related-mo...
Commentary: Think Obama's Medicare Savings Aren't Significant ...
This judgment seems rooted in the belief that the budget's changes affecting Medicare beneficiaries, which save a modest $64 billion over the first ten years ( the ...
www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3959


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