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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

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News8 new results for Medicare
 
CVS Medicare issues taking longer than planned, profit up
Chicago Tribune
(Reuters) - CVS Caremark Corp expects to lose about 10 percent of patients enrolled in one of its Medicare prescription drug plans because of a government marketing ban but does not expect the decrease to have a significant impact on its long-term results.
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Medicare hospital readmissions penalties fall across Northeast Ohio and nation
Plain Dealer
The Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, along with several other hospitals in the region, will lose less Medicare funding in October compared to this past year. The Cleveland Clinic lost over $1 million in Medicare funding this past year ...
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Obama's Ex-Medicare Head Tells UK's NHS How to Fix Itself
Businessweek
The U.K. should resist relying too heavily on targets or taking criminal action against workers to address shortcomings in its National Health Service, a panel headed by former U.S. Medicare chief Don Berwick said today. The 17-member National Advisory ...
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Medicare and Medicaid consider cuts to dialysis treatment
WEAR
ESCAMBIA COUNTY -- The furloughs may be reduced but federal budget cuts continue. Medicare and Medicaid are considering a nine-percent cut to dialysis treatment. Senator Marco Rubio sent a staff member to hear the concerns of dialysis patients in ...
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Medicare rule puts squeeze on small medical supply stores
Ocala
Brenda Counsell, the president and general manager, looks over a wall of items she said she will have to eliminate in order to downsize her store at Comfort Care Medical Equipment and Uniforms in Belleview, Fla. on Friday, August 2, 2013. A new ...
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Medicare to punish 24 state hospitals for high readmissions
Torrington Register Citizen
Twenty-four of Connecticut's 31 hospitals will face Medicare penalties in the fiscal year, starting in October, in the second round of the federal government's push to reduce the number of patients readmitted within a month of discharge, new data shows.
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Obamacare invites Medicare fraud
Chicago Sun-Times
Updated: August 6, 2013 4:42PM. Perhaps you've heard the radio or TV commercials sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services urging seniors to report instances of Medicare fraud. There's a number to call, along with cheerful suggestions.
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Health groups call for Medicare inquiry
Sydney Morning Herald
The newly formed Mend Medicare Coalition, which includes the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, Catholic Health Australia and the Consumers Health Forum of Australia, has called for both political parties to commit to a parliamentary inquiry ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
CT News Junkie | Medicare To Punish 24 State Hospitals For High ...
By Lisa Chedekel
Twenty-four of Connecticut's 31 hospitals will face Medicare penalties in the fiscal year starting in October, in the second round of the federal government's push to reduce the number of patients readmitted within a month of discharge, new ...
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