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Monday, August 26, 2013

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News7 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare savings could mean cuts for rural hospitals
La Crosse Tribune
All of those hospitals are among 42 rural hospitals in Wisconsin that could lose special Medicare payments under a proposal this month by a federal fiscal watchdog agency. A more limited proposal by the Obama administration would affect eight of the ...
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Medicare scam warning issued
Times Daily
Michelle Mason, president of the Better Business Bureau of North Alabama, said her organization is teaming with the FBI and the Senior Medicare Patrol to warn area seniors about Medicare scams that are becoming more common in the region. She said ...
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HHS report: More doctors accept Medicare
Reno Gazette Journal
The Department of Health and Human Services report was commissioned because of a Wall Street Journal article that reported the number of doctors who opt out of Medicare increased from 3,700 in 2009 to about 9,500 in 2012. That won't cause problems, ...
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Response Genetics, Inc. Acquires Proprietary FDA-Cleared and Medicare ...
Wall Street Journal
Acquiring the assets of Pathwork Diagnostics adds proprietary, Medicare reimbursed content that we believe addresses the needs of both pathologists and oncologists, further expands both our technology and testing base, leverages our current ...
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Did you forget Medicare? Jim DeMint claims 'federal health care' can't work
Raw Story
CNN host Dana Bash offered no fact check on Sunday as Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint (R) falsely claimed that fewer doctors accepted Medicare than private insurance. During a Sunday interview, DeMint explained that Heritage Action had ...
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Wis. rural hospitals could lose Medicare payments
Journal Times
Critical access hospitals, which have a maximum of 25 beds, get 101 percent of their costs from Medicare. That's substantially more than other hospitals get through their payment system, which is based on volume. The difference is about $860,000 each ...
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Business Payroll Software: Ezpaycheck 2013 Updated to Handle Additional ...
HispanicBusiness.com
Updated 2013 EzPaycheck payroll software from Halfpricesoft.com can calculate the additional Medicare tax on wages exceeding $200,000 automatically. The current rate for the additional Medicare tax is 0.9 percent. IRS requires employers to withhold ...
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Blogs4 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare places hospitals in a discharge conundrum - KevinMD.com
We have replaced a costly and at times inefficient system, with one driven purely by the best reimbursement profile of the day.
KevinMD.com
Wis. rural hospitals could lose Medicare payments - TODAY'S TMJ4
Forty-two of Wisconsin's rural hospitals could lose special Medicare payments under a proposal by a federal fiscal watchdog agency.
Local News
Jim DeMint's Argument Against Federal Healthcare Takes Aim at ...
By Sarah Jones
I guess he's right: Medicare, the Military Health System and TRICARE are a big fail. Will Republicans next winning strategy be publicly admitting that their raison d'être is defunding Medicare and taking health insurance away from our troops ...
PoliticusUSA
Medicare at 48; Korean War at 60: No Alibis 8/7/13 PODCAST - KCSB
By Elizabeth Robinson
images-2 As the possibility of cuts to the Medicare program loom, Robert Stone, MD wrote: "Who is the most popular health insurer in America? Not Anthem Blue Cross. It's Medicare. And what insurer is the most efficient? Medicare again ...
KCSB-FM 91.9 in Santa Barbara

Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Status of Medicare patients can result in huge bills - The Boston Globe
Thousands of Medicare enrollees in Massachusetts and across the country are finding themselves caught in a perplexing bind: Despite long hospital stays, they  ...
www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health.../story.html


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