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| Medicare's 'improvement standard' for physical therapy has changed Washington Post (blog) For years, seniors in Medicare have been told that if they don't improve when getting physical therapy or other skilled care, that care won't be paid for. No progress, no Medicare coverage — unless the problem got worse, in which case the treatment ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare by the Scary Numbers Wall Street Journal- India Even before the latest Medicare trustees report came out at the end of May, the White House spin masters had already crafted a story to go with it. Medicare's finances have improved, we're being told. The trust fund will last longer. The unfunded ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Top Medicare Prescribers Rake In Speaking Fees From Drugmakers NPR When the blood pressure drug Bystolic hit the market in 2008, it faced a crowded field of cheap generics. So its maker, Forest Laboratories, launched a promotional assault on the group in the best position to determine Bystolic's success: those in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Many Medicare $$$ Go to Preventable Illness MedPage Today Nearly 80% of the roughly $92 billion in acute care Medicare costs in 2010 were wracked up by the 10% of patients who comprise the high-cost cohort, and 9.6%% of those costs were for potentially preventable hospitalizations, researchers found. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Study: Medicare pays for unauthorized prescription drugs Salon Hundreds of thousands of times each year, Medicare pays for prescriptions purportedly written by massage therapists, athletic trainers, interpreters and others who aren't allowed to prescribe drugs, according to a new federal report. The study released ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare card scam continues turning up Daily Journal Online Parkland residents continue to report receiving Medicare card phone scam calls. In this type of scam, con-artist pose as government employees who say a new Medicare card is in the mail and then try to obtain personal information. Jack Skinner of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Doctor-specific Medicare claims data could be released ModernHealthcare.com For decades, the CMS has kept secret its records on Medicare claims payments to individual physicians. But Justice Department statements in a recent lawsuit and the first-ever releases of other provider charge data this year suggest the federal ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare Has Been Paying for Prescriptions Written by ... Art Therapists Newser (Newser) – Massage therapists and home contractors are not authorized to prescribe drugs—but Medicare will still cover the cost, anyway. That's according to a new study by the Department of Health and Human Services, which found Medicare paid $31.6 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New Approach Needed to Cut Medicare Costs: Study U.S. News & World Report "One compelling strategy for cost containment is focusing on the small proportion of patients in the Medicare programs who account for the vast majority of health care spending. We know from prior work that Medicare spending is highly concentrated; ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| As boomers ease into Medicare, battle rages over health-care costs The Spokesman Review President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare into law on July 30, 1965, while ex-President Harry S. Truman, right, observes at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo. At rear are Lady Bird Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey and former first lady Bess ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Not Authorized to Prescribe Drugs? Medicare Pays Anyway ... By ProPublica Massage therapists, athletic trainers, interpreters and others who aren't allowed to write prescriptions apparently issued at least 417000 under Medicare. ProPublica: Articles and Investigations | ||
| CBO | Offsetting Effects of Prescription Drug Use on Medicare's ... Presentation by Melinda Buntin, CBO's Deputy Assistant Director for Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis, at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. ExcitingAds! Gov | ||
| New Approach Needed to Cut Medicare Costs: Study » Public ... By Jo Breiner HealthDay News Austin Frakt, School of Public Health. Preventable emergency room visits and hospitalizations are only a small part of the cost of caring for Medicare patients with the highest overall health expenses, a new study shows… Public Relations |
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