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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Google Alert - Medicare

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Medicare fraud trial ends with 4 convictions
Washington Times
Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman, who heads the Justice Department's Criminal Division, said the defendants participated in a massive scheme that attempted to defraud the U.S government and take advantage of Medicare beneficiaries.
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Medicare site offers more info on doctors
Seacoastonline.com
Medicare on Thursday added new features to its Physician Compare Web site as it prepares to start including quality data on thousands of doctors. The federal health care law requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to publish performance ...
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Does Medicare cover ambulance services?
NorthJersey.com
Yes, Medicare does cover emergency ambulance services, as long as the ambulance service is medically necessary. Keep in mind that Medicare considers the event to be an emergency when your health appears to be in serious danger and every second ...
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Why Medicare has trouble controlling its costs
Kearney Hub
How many times this year have we heard politicians say Medicare spending is out of control? How many times have we heard that the solution is to make wealthier seniors pay more for their benefits and those not-so-wealthy seniors buy Medigap insurance ...
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Medicare may cut payments to home health agencies
WBIR-TV
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced the proposed changes to the home health prospective payment system. A provider must serve homebound Medicare beneficiaries under the supervision of a doctor who need physical therapy, ...
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Alex Tolbert: Navigating Medicare's quirks isn't easy, but it's important
The Tennessean
The government creates Medicare Part C in 1997, which becomes Medicare Advantage (MA). The idea is for insurers to compete for Medicare beneficiaries. The insurers offer benefits that are as good as or better than Medicare, and then they receive a flat ...
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Understanding Medicare Eligibility Criteria And Enrollment Period
Hive Health Media
The federal government sponsored insurance scheme for the senior citizens called Medicare is available to all the seniors that are 65 or older and receive social security benefits. The Medicare is also open for the people with certain disability which ...
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Easy Medicare Approved Sleep Apnea Treatment Offered Through Pro Player ...
DigitalJournal.com
Pro Player Health Alliance (PPHA) has delivered several sleep apnea patients to doctors across the country by offering their free awareness events to the public. At PPHA events attendees have the opportunity to meet their NFL heroes while learning ...
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Senator Asks States If They Alert Medicare to Problem Physicians
UK Progressive Magazine
The concern, Grassley wrote, is that while states use "without cause" terminations to quickly remove doctors from their Medicaid networks, the actions are not considered disciplinary and can't be used against doctors by Medicare. Terminations with ...
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America's heartland depends on Medicare Part B - The Hill
Of all the urgent problems that Congress needs to address, dealing with escalating Medicare costs might be the most urgent and difficult. But thankfully, the ...
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Google Alert - health insurance News

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Health-care setbacks could hit region's small businesses
Washington Post
Some state and federal officials are falling behind setting up new health-insurance exchanges for small businesses, which could leave employers in the region waiting longer than expected for the competitive pricing they were promised under the health ...
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Health-Insurance Costs Set for a Jolt
Wall Street Journal- India
Healthy consumers could see insurance rates double or even triple when they look for individual coverage under the federal health law later this year, while the premiums paid by sicker people are set to become more affordable, according to a Wall ...
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Health insurance sign-up looms
Las Cruces Sun-News
LAS CRUCES — If you cannot afford health insurance, or cannot get accepted into a plan, six months from today that could all change. As part of the Affordable Care Act, people can start to shop for coverage on Oct. 1, and benefits take effect on Jan. 1.
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Big health care better?
South Bend Tribune
The resulting organizations offer economies of scale, better coordination among caregivers and greater clout in negotiations with insurance companies. But some people worry those larger health systems look too much like monopolies in many communities.
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Rating health insurance products
Livemint
As an insurance broker, I interact with health insurance buyers every day and come across their issues first hand. The barrage of questions is overwhelming—Should I buy this product or that? Is private sector better or public sector? Why was this ...
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ObamaCare: Unaffordable health care
Washington Times
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2013 — As it stands now, Americans are mandated to purchase health care beginning in 2014. "Mandated" means consumers do not have an option. If consumers elect not to purchase health care, the government will levy fines ...
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Health insurance rates in Montana under ACA: Maybe not so bad … and we'll ...
Billings Gazette
HELENA – Yes, it's almost here – the full launch of "Obamacare," along with worries that it could throw health-insurance markets into disarray as it takes effect next year, creating big price shocks. But if an analysis released last week by state ...
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Deadline looms for Iowa health insurance plan
Sioux City Journal
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, states are required to have insurance exchanges in which people can purchase health insurance, often at discounted or subsidized rates. Every state has to follow federal guidelines, but specifics ...
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and now health insurance cards
Frontier Post
The PunjabĂ­s overall health infrastructure is slightly better than the other provinces of the country, yet there exists significant disparities among rural and urban areas. Barring Lahore and a couple of other big cities, the health sector performance ...
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Google Alert - Medicare

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Ask Emily: Medicare and the new health law: How it affects you
Visalia Times-Delta
Since 2007, Medicare recipients with higher incomes have paid more for their Part B coverage, which is the "medical insurance" portion of the program and helps pay for outpatient medical care such as doctor visits, lab tests and durable medical equipment.
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Medicare's Home Health Payment Rule Released
The National Law Review
On Thursday, June 28, 2013, Medicare released its proposed rule implementing fiscal year (FY) 2014 payment rates for the Home Health Prospective Payment System. The rule proposes to cut home health payment rates by 1.5 percent relative to FY 2013 ...
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Shilpa Medicare signs agreement with UN backed MPP and Gilead Sciences
Equity Bulls
Shilpa Medicare Ltd has signed an agreement with The United Nations-backed Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and Gilead Sciences to increase access to medicines for HIV/AIDS treatment. Shilpa Medicare Limited (SML) will now be able to produce five key ...
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Hospitals Threaten Obamacare Savings by Exiting Care Program (1)
Businessweek
Medicare's "Pioneer" program is designed to save money by more efficiently managing care for patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes and dementia. The providers agreed to a three-year plan to forgo traditional fee-for-service payments, where ...
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Fresno's Community Regional Medical Center reimburses Medicare overpayments
Fresno Bee
Community Regional Medical Center has repaid Medicare more than $1 million for incorrectly billed medical claims that were uncovered in a federal audit. The downtown Fresno hospital had billing errors for inpatient and outpatient services totaling $1.1 ...
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Retired professor sues NCCC over Medicare reimbursement
Buffalo News
But the principle is big, attorney Richard H. Wyssling said in explaining a lawsuit filed last week over the reduction in monthly Medicare Part B reimbursements. "We think the college is making another attempt unilaterally to change the contract ...
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Conducts Star Ratings Best ...
The National Law Review
CMS hosted a webinar this week focusing on best practices for Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Sponsors looking to enhance their Star Ratings. As described in our article and previous blog posts, Star Ratings assist enrollees in choosing ...
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Web2 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare - EmblemHealth
Whether you are new to Medicare or are looking to switch plans, we've designed this section to get you the answers you need and find that plan that is right for ...
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medicare spousal protections - National Center for Lesbian Rights
This guidance addresses the spousal protections of Medicare, the federal health ... Several aspects of Medicare are implicated by whether a person is married, ...
www.nclrights.org/site/DocServer/Post-DOMA_Medicare.pdf


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Google Alert - Obamacare News

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Calif. schools promote ObamaCare to students | Fox ...
A mention that you ask your kids what they learned in school today and they give you a sales ...
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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Google Alert - health insurance News

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Health care battle heats up again
CNN (blog)
(CNN) – As the Obama administration and Democrats gear up to promote the president's sweeping health care reform as a winning solution in the next election cycle, Republicans are gearing up to prove the opposite. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, argued ...
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State health-insurance report deserves serious consideration
Tulsa World
They also called for the state to continue its efforts to extend a state-federal-private health-insurance program known as Insure Oklahoma for a while longer, and to also make efforts to enroll as many residents as possible in the health-insurance ...
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Health Insurance Exchange Deadlines Challenging for States, IT Firms
eWeek
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees all the exchanges, will run insurance marketplaces for 34 states, but 15 of these states will manage some functions of the exchanges. Some states are behind schedule to set up these ...
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Government offers health insurance marketplace tools
Beckley Register-Herald
The Obama administration has kicked off the Health Insurance Marketplace education effort with a new, consumer-focused HealthCare.gov website and the 24-hours-a-day consumer call center to help Americans prepare for open enrollment and ultimately ...
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New health insurance co-op in Lewiston readies for business
Lewiston Sun Journal
Formed last year, MCHO is one of 24 health insurance co-ops approved by the federal government in the wake of the Affordable Care Act. It is the only one in Maine. If MCHO's insurance plans are approved by the Maine Bureau of Insurance and the federal ...
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Librarians to help people sign up for health care
Newsday
CHICAGO - The nation's librarians will be recruited to help people get signed up for insurance under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Up to 17,000 U.S. libraries will be part of the effort to get information and crucial computer time to ...
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Budgets Would Expand Health Care
OPB News
Oregon's largest state agencies will enroll thousands more in state-supported health care — and make modest additions to services for children, families and older people — under budgets headed for approval of the Legislature. The joint budget ...
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Google Alert - Obamacare News

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Will pro sports help promote ObamaCare? | Fox ...
Administration hopes young Americans sign up for coverage.
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Calif. schools promote ObamaCare to students | Fox ...
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Sen. Pat Roberts pitches Republican bill to annul ...
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., warns health-insurance exchanges might not be ready before Oct. 1 ...
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NFL punts on promoting Obamacare | Fox News Video
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ObamaCare a reason to celebrate independence ...
Anyway this defense is health care law but as a house democratic leader gets ready to celebrate ...
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Google Alert - Medicare

News8 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare Savings Coming for Diabetic Supplies
U.S. News & World Report
Medicare recipients currently pay 20 percent of that cost, which averages to $15.58 a month. Once the national mail-order program kicks in, the total cost will drop to $22.47, due to a competitive bidding process. That means the cost to the Medicare ...
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Proposed Medicare Rebasing Puts Seniors' Access to Home Healthcare at ...
Wall Street Journal
In its draft Home Health Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) rule for 2014, CMS proposes to further reduce Medicare home health funding by instituting a rebasing rate set at the maximum level permitted by law, as well as the elimination of 170 ...
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Proposed Medicare Cuts Leave Home Health-Care Stocks Ill
Barron's (blog)
Late Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (also called CMS) recommended what would amount to a 1.5% decrease for 2014, but analysts say part of that includes a 3.5% annual "rebasing" adjustment downward each year through ...
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Amedisys Faces US Medicare Pay Cut for In-Home Health Care (3)
Businessweek
Amedisys Inc. (AMED), Gentiva Health Services Inc. (GTIV) and other in-home health-care providers tumbled in New York trading after the U.S. Medicare program announced plans to cut company payments by 1.5 percent on average in 2014. Amedisys, the ...
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MiMedx Receives Additional EpiFix Medicare Reimbursement Coverage
MarketWatch
Parker H. "Pete" Petit, Chairman and CEO, said, "We are pleased to receive approval from another of the Medicare Contractors. The approval by WPS brings the total Medicare Contractors agreeing to reimburse for our EpiFix� wound care tissue grafts to ...
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Canadian Snowbirds Hoping to Get Medicare
Fox Business
My wife works in the U.S., as she has for more than 20 years. While we now live in Canada, we would like to buy a property in Florida. As a spouse, would I be entitled to Medicare when she retires? I will be 66 years old when she turns 62. I worked in ...
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Hospitals May Leave Medicare's Most Ambitious Payment Experiment
Bloomberg
Thirty-two hospitals and large physician groups are participating in what Medicare calls the "Pioneer" program. The health systems agree to forgo the government's traditional fee-for-service payments, instead transitioning over three years to capped ...
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CMS Proposes Medicare Payment Adjustment For Home Health Agencies
Kaiser Health News
A proposed rule released Thursday would cause home health agencies to experience a 1.5 percent reduction in their Medicare payments for 2014, which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimates could reduce payments to these facilities by ...
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Chris Christie blocks Medicare expansion for New Jersey | The Raw ...
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(Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have expanded Medicaid eligibility under the healthcare law known as Obamacare, his office said on Friday, in an apparent reversal of position for the presumed 2016 ...
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Web3 new results for Medicare
 
Why Medicare Advantage? - EmblemHealth
Bringing care closer to you. At EmblemHealth we're New York's leading neighborhood health and wellness company. It's why we: Focus on our members'  ...
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Senator Asks States If They Alert Medicare to Problem Physicians ...
Citing a ProPublica investigation, Iowa Republican Charles Grassley said that if Medicaid and Medicare don't share information on bad doctors, patients could ...
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Health Care Law Aims to Reduce Need to Rehospitalize Medicare ...
Every year, nearly 2 million Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged, at a cost of $17.5 billion. Health ...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Google Alert - health insurance News

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Health insurance industry seeks reform
Globe and Mail
While we have publicly funded health insurance in Canada, it is principally for hospital and physician services. When it comes to prescription drugs, only a minority of citizens have public insurance coverage, essentially those over the age of 65 ...
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Health care exchange: Cost issues start to shape discussion
Rutland Herald
"Vermonters are eager to learn more about the financial help that may be available to them when purchasing health insurance for 2014," Mark Larson, commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access, said in a statement. "The online calculator ...
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Health Care Surveillance: Citizens' Council for Health Freedom States That ...
DigitalJournal.com
Twila Brase, president and co-founder of Citizens' Council for Health Freedom, wants Americans to know what she believes is another government intrusion into their private health data. And she will share this information through a week-long series of ...
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Health insurance market set for shake-up
Irish Examiner
The health insurance market is set for a major shake-up as insurers provide lower-premium plans in selected hospitals. It is expected other insurers will follow Aviva in providing reduced cost health insurance with the new policies. The slimmed-down ...
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Health insurance tax repeal gaining traction
LifeHealthPro
The health insurance industry is pushing legislation that would repeal the new tax on health insurance plans — and it has some serious support. The Jobs and Premium Protection Act (H.R. 763), bipartisan legislation to repeal the health insurance tax ...
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Health care costs not sustainable'
Scottsbluff Star Herald
Hachten told about 100 members of the Association for Corporate Growth Nebraska that his health care system had anticipated change without federal prodding and is engaged in ways to monitor patients so they don't return to the hospital. It also is ...
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Health Insurance Options for Early Retirees
Kiplinger Personal Finance
I plan to retire next February and was wondering what my health-insurance options will be. Can I keep my current company-provided group coverage under COBRA for the next 18 months, or will I be forced to purchase my own medical policy from either a ...
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NFL Won't Promote Enrollment in Health Insurance Under New Law
New York Times
The National Football League is not participating in an effort with the Obama administration to help promote enrollment in health insurance plans under the new health care law, a spokesman said. The statement came after two Republican Senate leaders ...
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HEALTH CARE: Building on a History of Expertise
Prairie Business
Fargo-based Noridian Healthcare Solutions LLC (formerly Noridian Administrative Services) is about to find out. The health care administrative services firm, which already employs about 1,000 people throughout several locations in North Dakota and ...
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