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| Medicare Costs Rise at End of Life, but Hospital Days Decline, Report Says Medscape Medicare spending for chronically ill patients at the end of life increased more than 15% from 2007 to 2010, but these patients spent fewer days in the hospital and were more likely to be enrolled in hospice care, according to a report from the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare Spent Millions on Drug Prescriptions Written Without Authority 610kvnu A report by the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general outlines how, in 2009, Medicare's prescription-drug benefit paid for prescriptions written by health and health-related professionals who did not have the authority to write ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare Part D and Competition Lynchburg News and Advance Medicare Part D, passed by a Republican-controlled Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2005, was hailed as the hallmark of "compassionate conservatism." With the stroke of a pen, Bush gave millions of Medicare recipients access ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| OIG: Medicare overpays $2.8M to two hospitals and Wisconsin FierceHealthcare Investigators conclude the overpayments occurred because the hospital did not have adequate controls to prevent the incorrect billing of Medicare claims within the selected risk area that contained errors. The hospital has agreed to refund to the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Understanding Medicare Premiums; Now Projected to Grow Slower SeniorJournal.com June 21, 2013 - At the end of May, the Medicare Trustees reported that Medicare costs are expected to grow more slowly than was previously expected. One of the positive effects of this trend is that Medicare premiums are also expected to increase more ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Potentially Harmful Medicare Prescribing by More Than 700 Docs: Report Medscape More than 700 general-care physicians nationwide are "extreme outliers," with highly questionable prescribing habits, possibly endangering patient health and wasting staggering sums of money, a new report on Medicare's drug program found. Many of the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Firm Relies On Medicare Experience For Federal Health Exchange Calls Centers Gant Daily The six Medicare call centers run by Vangent, a company based in Arlington, Va., will answer questions about the health care law from the 34 states that opted out of running their own online health insurance marketplaces or decided to operate them ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Rothfus proposes Medicare options The Tribune-Democrat Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., proposed H.R. 2453, the Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2013, on Thursday. The bill calls for restoring an open enrollment period that, until 2011, allowed participants to change plans within the first three ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare Supplement Insurance Association's Conference Savings End Soon Live Insurance News Los Angeles, CA, June 21, 2013 –(PR.com)– Early registration savings for the only national conference exclusively focused on Medicare Supplement insurance, also commonly called Medigap insurance, will end shortly. The conference, organized by the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| How to cut Medicare's whopping fraud rate Crain's Chicago Business The global credit card industry has a 0.04 percent fraud rate. JPMorgan & Chase Co. has a 0.6 percent fraud rate. Can you imagine the trouble your business would be in if it ran a rate of 8.5 percent? That's the fee-for-service fraud rate that Medicare ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Medicare Benefits and Cost-Sharing: How Does Medicare Compare ... Benefits and cost-sharing: how does Medicare compare to typical large employer health plans? AARP - Health, Travel Deals,... |
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| Massage Therapists, Chiropractors Wrote Drug Prescriptions They ... Image credit: Getty Images In 2009, massage therapists, athletic trainers, chiropractors and other professionals wrote hundreds of thousands of drug ... abcnews.go.com/.../massage-therapists-chiropractors-wrote-dr... | ||
| Medicare's doctor records riddled with errors - amednews.com Incorrect enrollment information on physicians participating in Medicare can lead to doctors losing billing privileges and inaccurate information being posted on ... www.amednews.com/article/20130617/government/.../1/ |
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