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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

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News8 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare telephone scam shows up in Florence
SCNow
Gail, a Medicare patient who lives in Florence and asked that the Morning News not use her last name in this story, said she never thought she'd fall victim to a scam. But last week, a man called and implied she might lose her Medicaid benefits if she ...
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Big Blue Punts Its Retirees to Medicare
Bloomberg
IBM has announced that it's dumping its retiree health benefits onto the exchanges. Not the Obamacare exchanges, but a Medicare exchange. Medicare-eligible retirees will no longer be eligible for IBM's company health plan; instead they'll get a subsidy ...
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Rochester's Medicare spending rate is nation's lowest, study finds
Buffalo News
ALBANY – A new study finds the Buffalo region has the fourth-lowest overall Medicare spending rate in the nation and is one of six New York communities that ranked among the 30 lowest-cost markets in the country. The Rochester area has the lowest ...
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Express Scripts Acquires SmartD Medicare Prescription Drug Plan; Adds to ...
Wall Street Journal
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX) today announced the strategic acquisition of the SmartD Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) which will add 87,000 covered Medicare lives. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Cutting Medicare cruel to seniors
Las Vegas Sun
After months of falsely accusing President Barack Obama of cutting $716 billion from Medicare during the 2012 campaign, how ironic that those same critics in Congress are now demanding cuts in Medicare in the name of deficit reduction. In poll after ...
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OIG: Medicare RACs aren't taking proper action to combat fraud
EHRIntelligence.com
Medicare's recovery audit contractors (RACs) could be doing a better job to identify, eliminate, and follow up on fraud and improper billings, says a new report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). While RACs identified $1.3 billion in ...
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Express Scripts buys Medicare prescription plan
Businessweek
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts said Monday that it has bought SmartD Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, gaining about 87,000 patients. It did not disclose terms of the deal. Express Scripts Inc. is the largest U.S. pharmacy ...
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Medicare Local slammed for excessive bureaucracy
6minutes
A Medicare Local has been acussed of "stunning" bureaucracy after hiring PricewaterhouseCoopers to examine applications by GP practices for after-hours funding. The move to bring in the high-profile consultancy firm was made by Goldfield Midwest ...
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Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Do You Need Health Insurance if You Have Medicare or Medicaid ...
From Yahoo! Finance: Under health care reform, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, uninsured Americans will be required to have  ...
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