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Friday, June 7, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare urges seniors: join fight against fraud
Red Bluff Daily News
Medicare beneficiaries and caregivers are critical partners in the fight against fraud. In April of this year, CMS announced a proposed rule that would increase rewards up to $9.9 million paid to Medicare beneficiaries and others whose tips about ...
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Medicare, Social Security trustees' report
MarketWatch
Social Security and Medicare, as most Americans already know, are running out of money, according to the latest Social Security and Medicare trustees' report, issued last Friday. Social Security will exhaust its trust fund surplus by 2033, after which ...
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Court Opens Up Doc's Medicare Pay Info
MedPage Today
A federal court has overturned a more-than-30-year-old injunction preventing the release of information detailing what Medicare pays individual doctors. However, it may be some time before patients can find out how much the nation's largest healthcare ...
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Medicare drug plans scrutinized as enrollment nears
Sun-Sentinel
Ten years after Medicare's private drug plans — popular with South Florida seniors — were introduced, the benefits have been many. But so have the hassles and complaints about pricing misinformation, denial of coverage and lack of customer service.
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Medicare Durable Medical Equipment Program Expands
Mesquite Citizen Journal
If you, a friend, or loved one has Original Medicare and needs certain medical equipment and supplies, you should know that Medicare is scheduled to expand its successful competitive bidding program to more areas of the country. This program will help ...
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The Medicare Trustees Report in Perspective
Health Affairs (blog)
Last week's annual report from the Medicare Trustees reflects small but noteworthy improvements in the financial outlook of part of the program. Annual growth in Medicare spending per beneficiary slowed to less than 1 percent last year, well below the ...
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Policing of Medicare fraud explodes over two years
First Coast News
SAN FRANCISCO - JULY 24: A Southeast Mission Geriatric center patient holds her cane during a demonstration July 24, 2009 in San Francisco, California. Dozens of patients from the Southeast Mission Geriatric center held a demonstration protesting the ...
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Evidence Supports Medicare For All
Health Affairs (blog)
Dana Goldman and Adam Leive's effort to discredit the single payer, Medicare-for-All model of financing health care — or as they put it, make "any conclusion decidedly more nuanced" — is sorely lacking in nuance, defined by Merriam-Webster as "made ...
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IG says flaws in Medicare databases invite fraud and abuse
Washington Examiner
On the eve of an historic expansion in the federal role in the healthcare, a government review finds Medicare overwhelmed by new-medical provider information and unable to police its existing databases against the fraudulent use of taxpayer money.
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Medicare Part B
Federal Times (blog)
... for Tricare. I am enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits plan. Do I need to also enroll in Medicare Part B? A. To enroll in Tricare, you have to be enrolled in Medicare parts A and B. If you enroll in Tricare, you could suspend your FEHB ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
Moody's: Longer Medicare Solvency Good News for Nonprofit ...
By jmclaughlin@beckershealthcare.com (Jim McLaughlin)
Following the latest report from the Medicare Board of Trustees extending the projected solvent lifespan of the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund from 2024 to 2026, Moody's Investors Service rated the trustees' findings as credit positive for ...
Becker's Hospital Review


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