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News10 new results for Medicare
 
Strengthening Medicare's drug benefit: 8 recommendations
Washington Post
Require private insurers in Part D to report suspected fraud, waste and abuse to the contractor Medicare hires to look for fraud, a step recommended by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. Such sharing is ...
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Dramatically Different Medicare Bills Set Hospitals Thinking
NPR (blog)
For the first time, the federal government has publicly shared what hospitals bill Medicare for the 100 most common diagnoses and treatments. The information shows hospitals across the country — and across Alaska — bill dramatically different prices ...
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NPR (blog)
High hospital bills go public, but will it help?
Seattle Post Intelligencer
"It doesn't make sense," Jonathan Blum, Medicare deputy administrator, said Wednesday. The higher charges don't reflect better care, he said. And the amounts are too huge to be explained by obvious differences among hospitals, such as a more expensive ...
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US Medicare supplemental coverage linked to higher spending
UPI.com
Ezra Golberstein of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Kayo Walsh and Michael E. Chernew of the Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues said lowering both Medicare spending and the rate of Medicare ...
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UPI.com
Boehner, McConnell Refuse to Help Fill ObamaCare Rationing Panel
The New American
have told President Barack Obama that they will not assist him in selecting members for ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) — the panel charged with deciding which procedures will be covered under Medicare and at what rates.
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Medicare patients can't get 'cancer pill' - WorldNetDaily
WND.com
Rapid progress continues on oral chemotherapy treatments that are far more effective and less toxic than conventional alternatives, but the inability of Medicare and insurance companies to offer comparable coverage is draining the resources of many ...
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How We Analyzed Medicare's Drug Data
ProPublica
ProPublica obtained Medicare Part D data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Freedom of Information Act. The data includes information from 2007 through 2010 about prescribing by physicians and other providers under ...
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St. Francis, Stormont-Vail vary widely in Medicare charges
Topeka Capital Journal
Topeka's two hospitals look very different on paper, but whether that translates into differences for patients isn't clear. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released a report with data about how much most of the country's ...
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Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and ...
ProPublica
Dr. Daniel J. Hurley talks to patient William Sanders at his outpatient clinic in Beech Grove, Indiana. Hurley was credited with writing more than 160,000 prescriptions in Medicare Part D in 2010, the most of any provider in the country. Hurley said ...
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ProPublica
Is Gillard's Medicare levy a vote-winner?
Yahoo!7 News
YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY. prev next. Email 0. Recommend. 0. Tweet. 0. Share0. Embed. Link. 0 seconds ago, Seven Media Group - News. Both sides of parliament approve of Julia Gillard's scheme to raise the Medicare levy to fund the NDIS. Seven Media ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
Medicare patients can't get 'cancer pill' - WND
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Rapid progress continues on oral chemotherapy treatments that are far more effective and less toxic than conventional alternatives, but the inability of Medicare and insurance companies to offer comparable coverage is draining the resources ...
WND

Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Big contrast in hospitals' Medicare billing - San Francisco Chronicle
The Medicare data, released for the first time Wednesday by the federal government, shows the startling variations between what hospitals - even in relatively ...
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