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Thursday, July 11, 2013

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News8 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare To Propose New Doctor Payment For Managing Multiple Chronic ...
Kaiser Health News
Medicare is proposing paying doctors for managing Medicare patients with multiple chronic conditions starting in 2015. In the meantime, a Medicare plan to deny an Eli Lily diagnostic test to patients unless they are enrolled in a clinical trial is ...
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Medicare covers more than $1.3M in fake prescriptions in Pa.
The Mercury
HARRISBURG — Prescription pills are readily available, and you don't need a doctor, or even a drug dealer, to get them. Medicare has covered thousands of fraudulent prescriptions issued by people who aren't even allowed to prescribe drugs in the first ...
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More Medicare for GMH: $100 bump falls far short of hospital's goal
Pacific Daily News
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has given Guam Memorial Hospital an adjusted rate for in-patient services, lifting the rate to $1,100 per patient per day, said Alan Ulrich, the hospital's chief financial officer. That's a 10-percent ...
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Medicare to add payments in 2014 to manage complex chronic care patients
Healthcare Payer News
A proposed rule issued July 8 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would update payment policies and payment rates for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) at the start of 2014, including for chronic care ...
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For health exchanges, lessons from Medicare
Wall Street Journal
A big new insurance program launching before a skeptical public. Cost concerns for consumers and states. Technological challenges to implementation. Sound familiar? These problems and more dogged the launch of Medicare Part D, the prescription-drug ...
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2014 Medicare fee proposal ponders pay for non-face-to-face work
Family Practice News Digital Network
In a move away from the traditional visit-based payment system, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are considering paying physicians for their non-face-to-face work in chronic disease management. The proposal, which would be a ...
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Expert: Medicare's role in meningitis outbreak
Windsor Star
Published on Jul 10, 2013. Dr. Michael Carome of Public Citizen in Washington talks about how Medicare patients could have gotten contaminated drugs from compounding pharmacies that led to a meningitis outbreak. He says it comes down to unsure rules.
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National Poll: American Seniors Overwhelmingly Reject Medicare Cuts and Cost ...
Wall Street Journal
93 percent of seniors surveyed think Congress should advance reforms to stop Medicare fraud instead of cutting Medicare funding or charging seniors higher costs. -- 77 percent of seniors approve of Congress doing all it can to combat Medicare fraud as ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
CMS RELEASES PROPOSES INCREASED MEDICARE PAYMENT ...
By hlamb
On July 8, 2014 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released proposed Medicare payment rates for physicians' office, diagnostic centers and hospital outpatient departments for 2014. The proposed rates are substantially higher ...
American Society of Echocardiography


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