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| COLUMN-Medicare Advantage defies expectations by growing Reuters Obamacare opponents have been warning for several years now that Medicare Advantage, the private plan option that seniors can pick instead of traditional fee-for-service Medicare, would fail because of the healthcare law's impact on the program. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare Plans to Grade Hospitals with Stars The Fiscal Times Medicare is considering assigning stars or some other easily understood symbol to hospitals so patients can more easily compare the quality of care at various institutions. The ratings would appear on Medicare's Hospital Compare website and be based on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UnitedHealth upbeat on growth, copes with Medicare cuts Reuters Shares rose nearly 6 percent on Thursday as the company said it was "strongly positive" about the future despite near-term challenges tied to decreased funding for its privately run Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors and costs related to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate: Principles for Reform Heritage.org Congress may soon revisit the issue of Medicare physician reimbursement. Much of the discussion will focus on the sustainable growth rate (SGR), enacted in 1997 as a mechanism to update yearly Medicare physician payments. Under the SGR, the federal ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Kingsley Guy: Change Medicare, Social Security? Sun-Sentinel Today, the average life expectancy is 78. Yet, the full retirement age is only gradually increasing from 65 to 67, and Medicare still kicks in at 65. In 1950, 16 workers paid into Social Security for each retiree. Today, the ratio is 3-to-1, and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Potential medicare cuts have some dialysis centers looking for changes KFVS CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) -. The federal agency responsible for Medicare recently announced plans to cut funding for dialysis treatments. That cut is expected to be about $970 million. If these cuts take affect, clinical manager Sondra Britton at ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UnitedHealth 2Q profit rises as enrollment improves, but executives caution on ... Washington Post When private insurers first entered the Medicare program in the late 1990s, federal officials widely assumed companies would lower costs with their managed-care strategies. But the privately run Medicare Advantage programs ultimately grew more ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Why one Medicare Pioneer ACO succeeded in saving money ... How did Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization meet Medicare's cost targets and receive substantial shared savings in the first year of the Medicare Pioneer ... www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130716/.../307169946 |
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