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| Medicare Advantage Plans Cut Total Cardio Procedures, But Regional ... Washington Post (blog) Patients in Medicare Advantage plans got expensive balloons and stenting to clear coronary arteries at a rate 31 percent lower than patients in traditional Medicare, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare plan on Alzheimer's test dismays advocates Reuters CHICAGO (Reuters) - Alzheimer's experts plan to protest proposed Medicare guidelines that would deny coverage of an Eli Lilly diagnostic test for the disease unless patients are taking part one of several clinical trials in which the $3,000 test is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare's Part B Drug Spending Needs An Intervention Forbes Even before Congress created Medicare Part D to help seniors pay for their prescriptions at their local CVS Caremark CVS Caremark, Walgreen Walgreen, Walmart or independent pharmacy, Medicare Part B paid for drugs administered by a health ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare $$$ May Fuel PCMH Movement MedPage Today The proposed rule would also expand and integrate quality reporting programs within Medicare adding 47 individual measures and 3 measure groups to the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). That program pays physicians and group practices ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare May Fund Brain Scans for Alzheimer's Research Scientific American Alzheimer's researchers hoping to explore these questions had mixed reactions last week after Medicare recommended that the national health plan for the elderly and disabled only pay for a controversial $3,000 test that detects brain plaque linked to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare phone scam finding Montana victims Valleyjournal POLSON — The Montana Senior Medicare Patrol has recently received another report of a victim to one of the endless variety of phone scams. In the latest version of the scam, the caller claims to be an "official" with Medicare, calling because Medicare ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| CMS Proposes Permanent Medicare Payment for VisionCare's Telescope ... MarketWatch SARATOGA, Calif., July 9, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc., today announced the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed to provide reimbursement for VisionCare's Implantable ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Advantage Plans Cut Medicare Cath Lab Trips MedPage Today Medicare Advantage plans that pay per-patient tallied fewer cardiovascular procedures than those that pay per-service, a study showed. Capitated Medicare Advantage patients underwent 36% fewer angiographies and 30% fewer percutaneous coronary ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare decision to restrict coverage for Alzheimer's test raises outcry from ... MedCity News The agency that runs Medicare did cite evidence that the tests may be of use to rule out Alzheimer's in certain difficult-to-diagnose cases and to help identify patients who would be good candidates for clinical trials seeking better treatments or ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| How Medicare Affects Heart Treatment WTAJ You'd like to think that you'll receive the same medical treatment regardless of what kind of health insurance you have. But a new study suggests that may not be the case for Medicare patients. Medicare patients pay for heart procedure one of two ways ... See all stories on this topic » |
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