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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Google Alert - Medicare

News8 new results for Medicare
 
ProPublica: Top Medicare prescribers rake In speaking fees from drugmakers
Philly.com
Nearly all those doctors were again among the highest prescribers in 2011, the most recent year for which Medicare data are available. Forest began disclosing its payments only last year; the company didn't specify which drugs doctors spoke about.
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Top Medicare Official: 'We Can and Should Do More' to Oversee Drug Plan
Gant Daily
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) "takes very seriously the concerns being raised today," Blum said before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "Not only does inappropriate prescribing weaken the fiscal ...
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Medicare app on the horizon
The Australian
If the document handling capability is included in the Medicare version of the application it could potentially be used to fast track payments and reduce staff requirements at branch offices. Medicare's national customer queue management system was ...
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Shilpa Medicare in pact with medicines patent pool for entering HIV space
Hindu Business Line
The United Nations-backed Medicines Patent Pool, Shilpa Medicare and Gilead Sciences have entered into an agreement to increase the access to medicines for HIV/AIDS treatment. The Karnataka-based Shilpa Medicare will now be able to produce five key ...
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Medicare Uncovered: Cost cutting? We can't have that!
OpEdNews
A classic healthcare-lobbying story is in the making--a shootout between the government and the medical device industry over cost containment in Medicare, the $508 billion program that the pols have been telling us costs too much. Most of the media ...
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Obamacare, Medicare, and Health Insurance – What Are the Real Costs?
Guardian Express
Obamacare, the unofficial term for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), will soon have an effect on tens of thousands of Americans in a way it has not since its' inception in 2010. Like Medicare and ...
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Answers to Questions about Medicare Advantage Plans Can Be Found in the Stars
Sacramento Bee
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 25, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- A new analysis from HealthPocket, Inc. finds that tracking voluntary attrition rates and consumer complaints for Medicare Advantage plans can help evaluate the overall quality of a health plan, but ...
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Medicare legacy
Salt Lake Tribune
Medicare continues to be vital for seniors today, especially since it can be the only source of health-care coverage for seniors due to companies cutting and reducing earned supplemental health-care coverage. Congress needs to preserve Medicare to ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
Medicare readmissions reduction reform is complex, scary—and ...
By Chris Langston
Last Friday I was at a session of the National Health Policy Forum (NHPF) in Washington D.C. focused on Medicare's readmission reduction program The program, authorized under section 3025 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ...
Health AGEnda


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