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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

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News8 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare to Pay for More FDG-PET Scans
MedPage Today
WASHINGTON -- Up to three scans using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-enhanced positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) technology can be covered by Medicare for oncology treatment planning, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ...
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Medicare Spends Too Much On Brand-Name Drugs
Medical News Today
If Medicare's drug spending patterns regarding brand-name and generic drugs were the same as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), it would save over one billion dollars every year, according to a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Shilpa Medicare's contract research facility operational
Hindu Business Line
Shilpa Medicare facility at Pharma Park Jadcherla (SEZ), near Mahaboobnagar (Andhra Pradesh) has become operational. The company's new facility is to take up for Contract Research and Forward Integration, that is, own formulation (manufacturing of oral ...
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Analysis: Nevada Home Health Medicare Margins on Steep Decline
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare today released data demonstrating that the rebasing of Medicare home health payments within the proposed Home Health Prospective Payment ...
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Medicare Could Do More to Flag Claims Under 'Medically Unlikely Edits,' GAO ...
Bloomberg BNA
Only a small percentage of Medicare provider payments screened by a specific prepayment edit in 2011 were for amounts that exceeded excess billing limits, but the program still could do more to better target the edits, according to a Government ...
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Medicare 'rules' give cover to government killers
WND.com
What a perfect metaphor for Medicare regulators. Doctors and hospitals, acting like the grasshopper, try to carry on with the business of actual patient care while the Medicare folks enact inane restrictions, monitor for compliance and generally get in ...
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Cutting Medicare savings will hurt poor, elderly
Kennebec Journal
The Medicare Savings Program covers the Part B premium for Medicare, which pays for all doctor visits, preventive care, screenings and outpatient care. This program is for those who are on a low, fixed income, who are over 65 and on Medicare or disabled.
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OIG: Medicare Could Have Saved $910 Million on Lab Tests in 2011
Bloomberg BNA
Medicare could have saved $910 million in 2011 by paying the lowest possible rate for certain clinical lab tests, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General released June 11. The report, Comparing ...
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Blogs2 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare 'rules' give cover to government killers - WND
By Lee Hieb, M.D.
What a perfect metaphor for Medicare regulators. Doctors and hospitals, acting like the grasshopper, try to carry on with the business of actual patient care while the Medicare folks enact inane restrictions, monitor for compliance and generally ...
WND
Medicare Telehealth Reimbursement | HealthWorks Collective
By Linda Ringquist
Telehealth is becoming more prevalent and almost a staple in administering healthcare. But we have a long way to go when it comes to reimbursement standardization.
HealthWorks Collective - The...


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