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Saturday, August 17, 2013

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Medicare penalties costly to hospitals
Attleboro Sun Chronicle
Massachusetts hospitals will lose millions of dollars in funding this year - and perhaps tens of millions more in the future - because of penalties imposed by the federal Medicare program on hospitals that excessively readmit some of the state's ...
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Baucus, Medicare official coming to Libby Wednesday
The Missoulian
U.S. Sen. Max Baucus is bringing the top official in charge of Medicare to Libby on Wednesday as part of Baucus' ongoing work to ensure Libby asbestos victims are taken care of after he leaves the Senate at the end of 2014. Centers for Medicare and ...
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Medicare Part D continues to improve access to drugs
Liberty Tribune
One program that has been successfully working for 10 years is Medicare Part D. Part D is a widely popular, bipartisan program that has been saving Americans money since its inception in 2003, when it was created as part of the Medicare Modernization ...
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Nashua's St. Joseph Hospital penalized by Medicare for readmissions
Nashua Telegraph
Medicare, the federal health care program for the elderly, will cut St. Joseph Hospital's reimbursement rate by eight-tenths of 1 percent as of October because it says too many patients with certain heart and lung problems have returned to the hospital ...
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Long: SHIP helps seniors navigate Medicare maze
The Coloradoan
Through these grants, SHIP sites provide information, counseling and assistance to Medicare beneficiaries, their families and the community on health insurance issues. The grants help support a community-based network of state and local programs ...
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Letter: Medicare, not Obamacare, is health care solution
St. Augustine Record
Editor: The solution to rising health-care costs has been around since 1965. It is called Medicare. Medicare pays providers based on what it costs to provide a service, not on what providers charge, which is usually several times the Medicare allowable.
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Letter: Medicare cuts to dialysis hurt life-sustaining care
Topeka Capital Journal
I am writing because I am concerned and frustrated about a recent proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that would cut Medicare reimbursement for dialysis care by close to 12 percent. Considering that Medicare reimbursement already ...
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Pharma Manager Excluded From Medicare In a Case Showing Risks of Drug ...
Atlantic Information Services, Inc.
Reprinted from REPORT ON MEDICARE COMPLIANCE, the nation's leading source of news and strategic information on Medicare compliance, Stark and other big-dollar issues of concern to health care compliance officers. By Nina Youngstrom, Managing ...
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Nearly half of reviewed Indiana hospitals face Medicare penalties for high ...
Indianapolis Star
Those are some of the reasons that Franciscan St. Francis Health made the biggest improvement among Indiana hospitals last year in reducing the number of heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia Medicare patients who wound up back in the hospital ...
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Wisconsin Hospital Association reacts to medicare recommendation
Ashland DAily Press
... by the federal Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG). "These recommendations would decimate 20 years of health care stability and access to care for Medicare beneficiaries in rural communities across America." ...
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