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| Medicare Part D offers lessons for Obamacare Politico Three months before Obamacare goes prime time, health care vets are looking for lessons from another once politically volatile expansion of coverage: the Medicare prescription drug program. Just as Obama administration officials have warned about ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Most pricey Medicare patient care may be unpreventable Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treating the costliest Medicare patients in doctors' offices instead of emergency rooms or hospitals whenever possible may not save as much money as originally hoped, according to a new study. After analyzing recent data on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Walking Away From Medicare New York Times (blog) The price for all of this: $200 an hour, which patients pay out of their own pockets, for anything and everything she does. (Though Medicare doesn't pay for her services, it does pay for medical tests and services provided to these patients by other ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare RAC Program a Burden, Providers Tell Senate Committee Bloomberg BNA The Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program creates an excessive administrative burden and results in the denial of legitimate claims, two representatives from separate health care organizations told a Senate Finance Committee hearing June 25. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicaid-Medicare Parity Proposal Will Get Further Review AAFP News Now Primary care was an important focus during the 2013 annual meeting of the AMA House of Delegates held here June 15-19, but as the meeting went on, it became increasingly clear that delegates had very different views of what "primary care" truly means. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hospitals Mull Medicare Advantage Opportunities HealthLeaders Media Almost all the growth in Medicare in recent years has been accrued to Medicare Advantage. Now health systems and hospitals are considering collaborating with an insurer or developing their own Medicare Advantage plans. "If [insurers] want to get on the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Top Medicare prescribers rake in speaking fees from drugmakers Moneylife Below are the top 20 prescribers of the blood pressure drug Bystolic in the Medicare prescription drug program in 2010, as well as the speaking fees they received from maker Forest Laboratories in 2012. Forest only began reporting such information last ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare coverage for pre-1983 federal retiree Federal Times Q. My father retired from the federal government in 1976. For whatever reason, he does not have Medicare Part A. My mother recently suffered a stroke, and because my dad did not have Medicare Part A, rehab at a nursing facility will not be covered. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Slashing Medicare funding for dialysis harms patients StandardNet Medicare doesn't cover the full cost of these treatments and I'm concerned about recent cuts to Medicare by Congress and impending changes to the payment system that are expected to slash reimbursements for dialysis treatments and that could negatively ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Medicare.gov Physician Compare Home Medicare.gov - the Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare ... Show only those accepting the Medicare-approved amount, you will not be billed for any more ... www.medicare.gov/physiciancompare/search.html | ||
| Obamacare Could Produce $100 Trillion Medicare Shortfall Medicare is headed for a financial crisis, thanks largely to Obamacare, despite the administration's rosy forecasts, say healthcare experts John Goodman and ... www.newsmax.com/us/obamacare-medicare.../06/.../511819 | ||
| Doctor-specific Medicare claims data could be released | Modern ... For decades, the CMS has kept secret its records on Medicare claims payments to individual physicians. But Justice Department statements in a recent lawsuit ... www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130624/.../306249945 |
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