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Monday, June 10, 2013

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News8 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare prescribes more brand name drugs than VA
Reuters
For example, 51 percent of Medicare statin users nationally took a brand name version, compared to 18 percent of VA statin users. Likewise, 35 percent of Medicare beneficiaries on oral hypoglycemics and 13 percent of their VA counterparts were ...
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Medicare Payment Decision Was Seen by Hundreds of US Employees
Businessweek
The Medicare rate decision that sent Humana Inc. (HUM)'s stock soaring in April was distributed to at least 436 government employees at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department before the agency's official announcement. Senator Charles Grassley's ...
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Medicare, Medicare Advantage Offer Help for People with High Blood Pressure
Businessweek
INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 10, 2013-- When it comes to high blood pressure, what seniors don't know really can hurt them. The prevalence and severity of high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, increases markedly with age.
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Medicare Advantage 2013 Spotlight: Enrollment Market Update
Kaiser Family Foundation
It also analyzes trends in premiums paid by beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, including variations by plan type, and describes the out-of-pocket limits and prescription drug coverage in the Part D "donut hole" provided by the plans in ...
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Medicare: Non-Participating doctors
Tucson Citizen
Becky turned 65 recently. She has Medicare and a Medicare supplement, and she is looking for a primary care doctor. She called Desert Sage Internal Medicine in Oro Valley and asked if the doctors take Medicare. She did not understand the answer she got.
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Room for Savings Found in Medicare
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—The federal government's Medicare program could have saved nearly $1 billion in 2011 if it had paid the lowest rate negotiated by private insurers for lab tests, federal investigators said in a report to be released Tuesday. A review of ...
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Medicare Advantage enrollment rose, despite ACA, Kaiser report shows
ModernHealthcare.com
Between the beginning of 2012 and March 2013, 1 million more beneficiaries enrolled in the program, a nearly 10% year-over-year increase, bringing total Medicare Advantage enrollment to 14.4 million this year, according to a new report by Kaiser and ...
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Medicare beneficiaries substantially more likely to use brand-name drugs than ...
Medical Xpress
Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes are two to three times more likely to use expensive brand-name drugs than a comparable group of patients treated within the VA Healthcare System, according to a nationwide study by researchers from the University of ...
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Blogs2 new results for Medicare
 
Goverment leaked billion dollar Medicare decision | The Daily Caller
By Ariel Cohen
Wall Street officials took advantage of their advanced knowledge of the billion dollar Medicare decision by increasing stock trading of private health insurance.
The Daily Caller
Medicare beneficiaries substantially more likely to use brand-name ...
By News
PITTSBURGH, June 10, 2013 – Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes are two to three times more likely to use expensive brand-name drugs than a comparable group of patients treated within the VA Healthcare System, according to a ...
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Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Medicare prescribes more brand name drugs than VA - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Medicare Part D beneficiaries are two to three times more likely than those covered by ...
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