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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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In South Carolina, the State House of Representatives agreed last Thursday not to create a state ...
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Google Alert - Medicare

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Payment Can Be Elusive For Medicare Beneficiaries In Personal Injury Cases
NPR (blog)
The snafus arise in what's called the Medicare Secondary Payer process. If there's a settlement or judgment against another party in a liability case, Medicare is entitled to reimbursement for the money it spent on a beneficiary's medical care. It ...
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Former LA clinic owner makes Medicare's most-wanted list
Los Angeles Times
Federal investigators said Won Suk Lee, 44, was an acupuncturist and owner of two medical clinics in Huntington Park who billed Medicare for $2.1 million in false claims and got paid $1.2 million. Lee fled to South Korea after an arrest warrant was ...
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Medicare patrol needs Peninsula volunteers
Daily Press
In the wake of a spike in attempted phone scams on Medicare recipients in Virginia, the state's Senior Medicare Patrol program is seeking more community volunteers. Volunteers are trained to act as liaisons with Medicare beneficiaries and their ...
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Americans Support Medicare, Medicaid and ACA Expansions
Boston.com
A major new public opinion survey on the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and other key health issues (done by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health -- including my colleague ...
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IRS Developing Form to Calculate Medicare Tax on High-Income Taxpayers
Bloomberg BNA
IRS is developing a form to calculate the additional 0.9 percent Medicare tax liability that some high-income taxpayers will be subject to beginning this year, an IRS official says. The form is yet to be released but will be an attachment to Form 1040 ...
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Letter: Medicare, Social Security reform also needed
Worthington Daily Globe
I agree with the balanced approach, which also means the Democrats have to reform Medicare and Social Security. I hate the word "entitlement" because I've paid into that program for 624 months — hey, it adds up. It's important to the rest of us ...
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Pill-maker's favor hard to swallow; Can't save Medicare by gouging it
Lexington Herald Leader
As Sen. Mitch McConnell runs victory laps around his fiscal cliff compromise, he's also talking up entitlement reform to "avert a European-style debt crisis" and to "save the country." Making fewer seniors eligible for full Medicare benefits in the ...
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Iowa Senior Medicare Patrol warns about recent phone scam
SW Iowa News
Iowa's Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) has issued a warning that scammers posing as Medicare officials are phoning Iowa's seniors and attempting to visit them in their homes. A release from SMP said the callers are trying to obtain personal information to ...
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Ohioans saved $5.5 million during recent medicare open enrollment period
The Pike County Daily
COLUMBUS — Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced the Department's Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program (OSHIIP) helped 38,276 Ohioans with Medicare save a record $5.5 million during Fall ...
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CEOs Get a Medicare Compliance Checklist
HealthLeaders Media
Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force has charged more than 1,480 defendants who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for more than $4.8 billion. The fraud agents are not done, however, one healthcare ...
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Physicians and Experts Discuss Medicare Reform | C-SPAN
A senior official from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Tuesday dismissed the idea of reducing health care costs and the budget deficit by cutting Medicare benefits. Dana Safran said the effort in her state has shown that greater ...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Google Alert - Obamacare News

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Greg Gutfeld On "Lifestyle Penalties" In Obamacare ...
... by us all -- thank you, Obamacare -- experts say society must now wrestle with whether to ...
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Google Alert - health insurance News

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The Health Insurance Company Is Your Friend
Forbes
The next decade will be about bringing U.S. health care costs back to earth. Healthcare expenditure is the main driver of U.S. budget deficits in the long run (more). It is imperative to dramatically slow the growth of healthcare cost, or the U.S. is ...
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Report: Kaiser tops state health insurance market with 40% share
Los Angeles Times
Nonprofit healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente had a 40% share of California's $59-billion health insurance market for employers and individuals, new data show. A report issued this week by Citigroup analyst Carl McDonald compiled nationwide data on ...
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State debates lifting health care mandate
RU Daily Targum
Students might see changes in the health insurance the University offers in 2014 once the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, takes effect. Assemblywoman Celeste Riley, D-3, said the University would not be able to offer low cost plans to ...
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Add health benefits or cut hours?
News Sentinel
INDIANAPOLIS – The federal health care overhaul is causing many Indiana employers to wrestle with decisions on whether to provide health benefits to workers who aren't typically eligible for most company plans or trim their hours to avoid extra costs.
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To Open Eyes, W-2s List Cost of Providing a Health Plan
New York Times
WASHINGTON — As workers open their W-2 forms this month, many will see a new box with information on the total cost of employer-sponsored health insurance coverage. To some, it will be a surprise, perhaps even a shock.
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Her health insurance costs $900 a month
MSN Money
"I need some direction as to where to look for health insurance. I am 60 years old, on workers' compensation with one child still under the age of 26. Of course, I have some pre-existing conditions. Who doesn't at 60 years old? My current insurance ...
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Portage council begins employee health insurance changes
nwitimes.com
PORTAGE | The Portage City Council on Tuesday took the first steps in changing what health insurance will look like for city employees. It approved two ordinances and put on hold the possibility of pay increases for nonunion employees choosing a new ...
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Consumer alert: new health care markets are on the way
TheNewsTribune.com
Buying your own health insurance will never be the same. This fall, new insurance markets called exchanges will open in each state, marking the long-awaited and much-debated debut of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. RICARDO ...
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Deadline For Child-Only Health Insurance
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Up to 10,000 Georgia children could get health insurance this week thanks to a compromise crafted by Georgia lawmakers. Legislation passed last year gave Georgia parents and legal guardians the option of signing their children up for private insurance ...
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Google Alert - Obamacare News

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Smokers, obese Americans cost billions in medical care.
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Texas Considers Giving Tax Break for Violating ...
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Google Alert - Medicare

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Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are loved by more than liberals
Washington Post
Regarding Charles Krauthammer's Jan. 25 op-ed column, "Obama unbound": A thrilling headline catches the eye so, and expecting an article about the president turning green, growing a ton of muscle and bounding up Pennsylvania Avenue to smash the ...
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Long Waits For Consumers When Medicare Is 'Secondary Payer'
Kaiser Health News
The problem generally arises when a Medicare beneficiary believes he or she was harmed because of another party's negligence: getting hit by a car while crossing the street, for example, or suffering lasting injury because of a careless surgical error.
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Why Medicare and Social Security may not be fought along typical party lines
NBCNews.com
Why Medicare and Social Security may not be fought along typical party lines. The fight over Medicare and Social Security may be a debate between Barack Obama and Democrats, not the usual Democrats versus Republicans. The Cycle hosts and ...
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Real Medicare Spending per Enrollee
National Review Online (blog)
The good news coming from the left these days is that we shouldn't worry about the trillion dollar deficit and the debt. Indeed, a recent paper by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows that the debt will stabilize, at least on paper ...
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Balyszak: Medicare penalty makes it clear -- Auburn Community Hospital needs ...
Auburn Citizen
Auburn Community Hospital will lose $100,000 in Medicare payments in 2013 (a 0.9 percent decrease), which is the biggest reduction of any hospital in the nation. Yes, the nation. Granted, the data used for this reduction was based on 2010 performance ...
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Medicare actuary nearly resigned over political pressure
The Hill (blog)
Richard Foster, the outgoing chief actuary at the federal Medicare agency, said he was ready to resign in protest over political pressure from the White House during the debate over Medicare's drug benefit. Foster, who is retiring next week, remembered ...
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Enroll for Medicare Part B through March 1
Chippewa Herald
You may already know that Medicare is a medical insurance program for people who are 65 or older and for people who are disabled at any age. Some people are covered only by one type of Medicare; others opt to pay extra for more coverage.
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Blinder warns Medicare spending threatens deficit control
The Hill (blog)
Former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder warned Monday that Medicare spending will "swallow up everything" and threaten attempts at deficit control without action to curb costs. Blinder, a former Clinton White House economic adviser ...
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As congressman works to repeal Amgen Medicare drug exemption, lobbyists ...
Ventura County Star
Amgen, which is based in Thousand Oaks, said in a statement that it supported efforts to delay including oral-only medications related to kidney dialysis in the Medicare price controls until the government and providers were ready for the change and ...
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Retiring Medicare Actuary Reflects On The Politics Of Spending And Why He ...
Kaiser Health News
Richard S. Foster is retiring this week after 18 years as the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. His duties included projecting Medicare and Medicaid spending and the cost of health care legislation to help policymakers ...
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