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News	10 new results for Medicare

Medicare Penalizes Nearly 1500 Hospitals For Poor Quality Scores NPR (blog) Medicare has raised payment rates to 1,231 hospitals based on two-dozen quality measurements, including surveys of patient satisfaction and — for the first ... See all stories on this topic »	Kaiser Health News
Medicare, Medicaid discussed at YWCA review Piqua Daily Call PIQUA -Ashley Powell, social worker at Dorothy Love Retirement Community, Sidney, came with a wealth of Medicare and Medicaid information for a review ... See all stories on this topic »
Medicare open enrollment under way Community Voice Medicare's annual open enrollment period has begun, and I want to encourage everyone with Medicare to review current health and prescription drug coverage. See all stories on this topic »
Medicare graduate medical education funding unevenly distributed ... ModernMedicine The federal government allots more than $10 billion per year through Medicare Graduate Medical Education (GME) payments to fund residency programs at ... See all stories on this topic »
UnitedHealth Culls Doctors From Medicare Advantage Plans Wall Street Journal UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation's largest provider of privately managed Medicare Advantage plans, has dropped thousands of doctors from its networks in ... See all stories on this topic »
Medicare reform proposal needs fixes for long-term care physicians ... McKnight's Long Term Care News Prospective Medicare changes regarding physician payments might unfairly penalize doctors working in long-term care settings, according to a prominent ... See all stories on this topic »
4 keys to scrutinizing Medicare Advantage cuts The Augusta Chronicle Health insurers say federal funding cuts to these privately run versions of Medicare will force them to whack plan benefits, increase premiums or leave some ... See all stories on this topic »
Rev. Al Sharpton, Medicare Part D and enrollment under ... OregonLive.com The Rev. Al Sharpton confused the national debt with the national deficit on a recent television program, according to PolitiFact National. His utterance earned ... See all stories on this topic »	Newsworks.org
Medicare RX plans focus of seminars Lompoc Record A seminar on Medicare's 2014 Prescription Drug Plans is set for 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the Lompoc Community & Senior Center, 1120 W. Ocean Ave. See all stories on this topic »
Ways For Retirees To Lower Medicare Part B Premiums Investor's Business Daily Premiums will stay the same in 2014 for Medicare Part B, stepping up by the same amounts as before for higher-income retirees and other participants in the ... See all stories on this topic »

Blogs

10 new results for Medicare

Medicare Use Rate Trends by State | Stratasan - Advanced Health ... Whit Ryan Recently there have been many concerns regarding the use rate decline of inpatient discharges. In this post we will discuss where and by how much Medicare ... Stratasan - Advanced Health Analytics in the Cloud
Eight patients slump on free medicare queue in Yola - Vanguard News adekunle YOLA — At least eight patients, most of them in critical condition, collapsed while awaiting medical attention at the official flag off of a week-long free medical ... Vanguard News
Jiva and the Path to Improved CMS Star Ratings for Medicare ... Matt Adamson Each day, approximately 10,000 people enroll into the Medicare program, which ... on Medicare Advantage and the CMS Star Ratings for each of those plans. ZeOmega
Increased Medicare Spending Does NOT Reduce Overall Health ... Steve MacDonald As Democrats push for Medicaid Expansion in New Hampsshire, and Republicans attempt to formulate their own method for doing the same, keep this in mind. GraniteGrok
Hospitals' 'Observation Status' Can Cost Medicare Patients ... Letter to the editor Thanks to The Courant for the Nov. 12 editorial, "Know Your Patient Status." The Center for Medicare Advocacy has fought hospitals' use of observation status ... Letters - Courant.com
Medicare Part D Copay changes for 2014 make good fiscal sense ... John T. McDonald III - Member New York State Assembly I was thumbing through the CDPHP Medicare Advantage Annual Notice of Changes manual last week when I came across a section on copayment changes for ... John McDonald
Medicare Advantage Dropping Providers: Rhode Island ASC Impacted United Health Care recently dropped around 100 physicians from Rhode Island from Medicare Advantage plans, including physician groups that utilize ... Becker's ASC Review
The Medicare and Medicaid Guide—Highlights of All Explanations ... Paul Clark Medicare is the single largest purchaser of health care in the United States, accounting for 23 percent ($522 billion) of the $2.3 trillion spent on health care in ... Health | Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Nearly 1500 Hospitals Penalized Under Medicare Program Rating ... Jon Gelman More hospitals are receiving penalties than bonuses in the second year of Medicare's quality incentive program, and the average penalty is steeper than it was ... Workers' Compensation
If This Is The Quality Of Medicare Local Leadership We Have There ... Dr David More MB PhD FACHI A MEDICARE Local CEO has surprised colleagues by saying she does not believe in universal free healthcare, and by suggesting people should be punished ... Australian Health Information Technology

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