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| Medicare says medical equipment costs down under pilot program in San ... Inland Valley Daily Bulletin A two-year Medicare cost-cutting experiment in San Bernardino and other areas has been wildly successful, officials say, reducing the price of certain medical equipment by 42 percent and saving the government and taxpayers more than $200 million ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cuts to Some Medicare Payments Provide Offsets for 'Doc Fix' Roll Call The Senate-passed fiscal cliff bill would block for one year a scheduled 27 percent cut in reimbursements for Medicare physicians, paid for by familiar cuts and adjustments to other provider payments. The bill (HR 8) would keep reimbursement rates ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Tell Mel: Beware medicare card scams Lehigh Acres News Star The number one scam on the Tell Mel hotline last year — not the most clever or heinous, just the one most frequently reported — was from people who received a call about getting a new Medicare card. The caller, who was usually speaking with a very ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Switching from Blue Cross/Blue Shield to Medicare Part B Federal Times (blog) A. While your wife could disenroll from the Federal Employees Health Benefits program and both of you enroll in Medicare Part B, what she gained by no longer having to pay premiums for the former would likely be offset by the premiums you'd both have ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Identifying incident oral and pharyngeal cancer cases using Medicare claims 7thSpace Interactive (press release) Baseline and trend data for oral and pharyngeal cancer incidence is limited. A new algorithm was derived using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database to create an algorithm to identify incident cases of oral and ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| TNT: Negotiations and Fiscal Cliff, Debt Ceiling, Sequester - Daily Kos By rss@dailykos.com (Vote4Obamain2012) He would raise the eligibility age from 65 to 67 for Medicare and accept the chained CPI cut. Would he give that away for nothing ? No. He will only agree to that if he got a lot more revenue from the wealthy and more cuts in defense. Would a ... Recent |
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| Companies Prepare for Health Law Wall Street Journal 1, 2014, reshaping health coverage in the U.S. Employers with at least 50 workers will owe penalties if they don't cover full-time employees. Most Americans will face a parallel "individual mandate" to obtain insurance. And new online marketplaces ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Network Health to offer insurance through state program Boston Globe Medford-based Network Health, which provides health insurance for nearly 215,000 low- and moderate-income residents in Massachusetts, will be entering the commercial health insurance market by offering a half dozen plans through the Massachusetts ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| 'Obamacare' Offers Young Adult Health Care and Peace of Mind New America Media Under the ACA, young adults can remain on their parents' plan up to age 26, even if they are out of school, married or living on their own, if they cannot get health insurance through an employer. Now, Bowyer can continue receiving medications and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Health insurance premium hikes kick in today for thousands of school district ... Palm Beach Post The increases are a result of the district's new health insurance benefits, negotiated with all four labor unions representing district employees this past summer and approved by the school board on Oct. 3. The most noticeable change of the new plan is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Mental Health Coverage New York Times Re "Walking the Tightrope on Mental Health Coverage," by Ron Lieber (Your Money column, Business Day, Dec. 22): As the article detailed, having mental health coverage that is affordable and accessible is an essential need. As a person with a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hobby Lobby Plans To Defy Health Care Mandate NPR The federal health care law requires employee insurance plans to cover emergency contraceptives. That's something the owners of the craft store chain Hobby Lobby say they can't do. An attorney for the stores said the Christian owners consider the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Health-care law begets higher taxes in 2013 Walla Walla Union-Bulletin New provisions of the Affordable Care Act require affluent taxpayers to pay more for Medicare and, for the first time, have their investment income subject to Medicare taxes as well. Also, people who use flexible spending accounts for health care ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| The coming cost of ObamaCare | Fox News Video This transcript is automatically generated. Welcome back the government wishing ... video.foxnews.com |
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| Medicare doctors face 29% pay cut in New Year CNN Current federal law requires that Medicare reimbursement rates be adjusted annually to keep spending in line with GDP growth. But Medicare spending has typically outpaced economic growth, so the law requires rates to be cut every year to keep Medicare ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Paying for results, not treatments Los Angeles Times One of the fundamental problems in the U.S. healthcare system is that the most common and straightforward payment method — paying a fee for each service rendered — encourages doctors and hospitals to provide more care, not better care. In fact, it ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare patients may suffer if country goes over fiscal cliff CNN (blog) The cuts are triggered by Medicare's sustainable growth Rate (SGR) – a 26.5% mandated pay cut that for years has been postponed by Congress at the last minute, or retroactively soon after it went into effect. An additional 2% cut is required by the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New House Rules Would Amend Requirements on Medicare Board Roll Call Proposed House rules for the 113th Congress would make it easier for the chamber to change or repeal recommendations from a controversial board tasked with reining in Medicare spending. The Independent Payment Advisory Board is a favorite target of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Obama: Let's reduce Medicare costs The Hill (blog) President Obama said he would agree to "new ways to reduce" U.S. healthcare costs in order to lower bills in Medicare. The comments came during a speech at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the eve of the so-called "fiscal cliff," a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare premiums: How much should you pay? Tucson Citizen The Medicare Part B monthly premium will be $104.90 in 2013. It really should be $400. The federal government is subsidizing most seniors by paying 75% of the cost of their Medicare Part B. This subsidy is what politicians are talking about when they ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Report: For-profit nursing home industry overbilling Medicare The Courier-Journal SAN FRANCISCO — A report by federal health care inspectors in November said the U.S. nursing home industry overbills Medicare $1.5 billion a year for treatments patients don't need or never receive. Not disclosed was how much worse it is when ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| In debt talks, everybody's got to put something on the table Baltimore Sun I would put Medicare and Social Security on the table. We get a lot of expensive and wasteful care at the end of life under Medicare, and we ought to raise the retirement age on folks like me and cut out the cost-of-living increases. From my son's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Seniors' chance to switch to regular Medicare begins today Record-Searchlight North state seniors unsatisfied with their Medicare Advantage plan can switch back to traditional Medicare beginning today. The Medicare Advantage Annual Disenrollment Period will run until Feb. 14, said Debbie Weiland, program manager for HICAP ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Daily Kos: Social Security and Medicare can be made stronger and ... By rss@dailykos.com (pdanoki) By Sonja Rotenberg, Chair Illinois Single Payer Coalition 12/27/12. Some Changes Are Good. Republicans and some Democrats want to cut Social Security (even though it does not contribute one dime to the deficit) and Medicare in the name ... Recent | ||
| Daily Kos: Medicare also going over the "cliff" By rss@dailykos.com (david78209) Perhaps tomorrow I should ask my office manager to telephone all the Medicare patients who have appointments any time in 2013, and tell them not to come in until this is settled. While she's talking to them, she or I should also give them the ... Rescued |
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| Physicians Brace For Medicare 'Doc Fix' Cliff Doctors who treat Medicare patients are bracing for what could be massive cuts for their practices, if Congress fails to reach a deal on budget cuts by New Year's ... www.cnbc.com/.../Physicians_Brace_For_Medicare_039Doc_... |