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| OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Medicare payments in the spotlight The Hill (blog) The House Ways and Means Committee's Health panel will take a fresh look Tuesday at replacing Medicare's payment system for doctors. Lawmakers from both parties are pushing for a permanent replacement sometime soon, buoyed by a steep price cut ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Unified Medicare benefit would save billions, study says The Hill (blog) "But Medicare is overly complex, and it fails to protect beneficiaries against high costs unless they buy supplemental coverage. Medicare Essential would simplify and modernize Medicare for beneficiaries and help keep premiums and out-of-pocket costs ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| JP Morgan's Medicare Advantage endorsement lifts Humana shares MarketWatch (blog) Shares of Humana Inc. got a lift Monday after J.P. Morgan declared membership in Medicare Advantage plans will keep growing despite pending reimbursement cuts. Shutterstock.com. But brokerage analyst Justin Lake also targeted Louisville, Ky.-based ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A Medicare tax break MarketWatch Last year, the IRS finally admitted that Medicare insurance premiums can be counted as qualified health insurance premiums for purposes of the self-employed health insurance deduction. Some tax pros, including yours truly, had long believed this to be ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tighter Medicare payments tend to lower fees for all, study finds Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON — Most hospitals cope with low Medicare payments by reducing costs rather than shifting higher charges to privately insured patients, according to a study released Monday in the journal Health Affairs. Author Chapin White, a senior ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| White House Medicare Proposal Draws Ire From Advocates, Liberals Kaiser Health News The Hill reports that President Barack Obama's plan to combine Medicare's doctor and hospital costs is unpopular among advocates for the elderly and some liberal Democrats. Meanwhile, Medpage Today details how the creation of the health law's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Researchers, Commonwealth urge new Medicare option ModernHealthcare.com Researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Commonwealth Fund are recommending a new Medicare public insurance option they say would combine parts of the decades-old federal health program and could reduce total health ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare Loophole Could Cost You Thousands KREX News Channel 5 Medicare will pick up the entire bill for the first 20 days spent in a nursing home after a hospital stay, but only if a patient is admitted to a hospital for at least three full days. If however, the patient is classified as being under observation ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Welcome to Medicare: Preventive Visit Tucson Citizen When people first begin their Medicare coverage, they get a free "Welcome to Medicare" visit with a primary care doctor. This preventive screening visit might not be important to someone who has had health insurance and has seen their primary care ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Guest Opinion: Medicare Part D needs to be preserved, because senior citizens ... The News-Press Medicare Part D is a wonderful program that protects the health of our deserving seniors in Florida and throughout the nation. Recently proposed changes would be detrimental to seniors who rely on Part D for the medications they desperately need. We ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Proposed 'Medicare Essential' plan estimated to save $180 billion ... By News New York, NY, May 6, 2013—Combining Medicare's hospital, physician, and prescription drug coverage with commonly purchased private supplemental coverage into one health plan could produce national savings of $180 billion over a ... Science Codex - Science news,... | ||
| Medicare Beneficiaries Sue HHS Over Medicare's Observation Status By molly@beckersasc.com (Molly Gamble) A group of Medicare beneficiaries is suing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, seeking for Medicare to stop its use of observation status, which the plaintiffs say deprives Medicare enrollees of the Part A coverage to which they are entitled, ... Becker's Hospital Review |
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| Medicare - Kaiser Health News The Wall Street Journal writes that the Iowa Republican, who is looking into how investors got advance word of a Medicare financial policy decision, is also ... www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Topics/medicare.aspx | ||
| Largest Hospice Chain Sued For Alleged False Billings To Medicare Chemed and Vitas, the largest for-profit hospice chain in America, are being sued by the US Justice Department for alleged false billings for Medicare hospice ... www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260120.php |
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