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| Clipboard: State's Medicare windfall in jeopardy Boston.com (blog) A $250 million Medicare windfall for Massachusetts hospitals appears to be on the brink of expiring. The state's congressional delegation is pushing to preserve the annual payments that critics have dubbed the "Bay State boondoggle," Tracy Jan writes ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Coalition would review Medicare Locals Sydney Morning Herald A Coalition government would review Medicare Locals, the 61 organisations set up by Labor to co-ordinate primary care across Australia. Coalition health spokesman Peter Dutton announced the review in a speech to the Australian Medical Association ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare now faced with 'Doc Fix' problem Hernando Today The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 called for annual adjustments to the amount doctors were paid under Medicare. This was done by tying the the percentage increase in Medicare payments to doctors to the percentage increase in the Gross Domestic Product ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare payments impact private rates Pittsburgh Business Times "The study found that when Medicare pays lower rates for inpatient hospital care, private insurers' rates end up growing more slowly, too – it's the opposite of what hospitals would have the public believe," Senior Researcher Chapin White said in a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare withholds $1M from metro Omaha, Lincoln hospitals over readmissions Omaha World-Herald Medicare is withholding nearly $1 million from metro Omaha and Lincoln hospitals because too many of their patients returned to the hospitals within a month of being sent home. Medicare officials, as part of an effort to curb rising costs, are taking ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TONI KING: Medicare stopped paying my husband's skilled nursing Your Houston News (blog) My husband, 67 years old, suffered a severe stroke this January and his skilled/ rehab facility is saying Medicare will not pay for his care anymore. I've been informed that beginning next week either to receive care from this facility, it will have to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare in 1966: Into the Heart of Darkness! Tucson Citizen Legislation creating Medicare was passed in 1965 and enrollment began one year later, in 1966. Nobody knew if Medicare would be a success or failure. Would seniors enroll in the program? Would doctors and hospitals participate? Would the country be ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Miami Therapist Gets Nine Years For His Role In $63 Million Medicare Scam Miami New Times (blog) In the capital of medicare fraud, Miami therapist Paul Thomas Layman and his cohorts pulled off a doozy of a heist, stealing $63 million from the federal government through bogus mental health services. Now Layman will spend the next nine years in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Judge dismisses claims of 'nationwide' Medicare fraud in Omnicare ... McKnight's Long Term Care News Long-term care pharmacy Omnicare will not face charges that it engaged in "nationwide" Medicare fraud for off-label antipsychotics prescriptions, a federal judge recently ruled. However, the pharmacy still faces more limited False Claims Act charges ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Federal Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges Chicago-Area Defendants with ... eNews Park Forest Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Two area physicians and three health clinic co-owners are among seven defendants charged here with engaging in five separate, unrelated health care fraud schemes to defraud the Medicare program and/or private health insurers ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Medicare Uncovered: Who should pay? Who can pay? : Columbia ... Elizabeth O'Brien's May 15 Marketwatch piece on proposed changes for Medicare is one of the best I have seen since the government's health program for ... www.cjr.org/.../medicare_uncovered_who_should_pay_who_... |
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