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Friday, December 28, 2012

Google Alert - Medicare

News10 new results for Medicare
 
Senators: Trade $1 trillion in Medicare cuts for debt ceiling
CBS News
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's warning this week that the federal government will hit its borrowing limit (a.k.a. the "debt ceiling") on December 31 elicited something resembling a collective groan from policymakers and political reporters who ...
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Medicare Bidding Blamed For Cutbacks
WBFS
Already some changes are hurting some Medicare patients and small businesses. It's a major struggle between President Barrack Obama and the Republican Leadership of Congress: How to balance the budget without slashing millions of dollars worth of ...
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LETTER: Congress must act on 'Medicare doc fix'
Lehighvalleylive.com
Harry Reid View full size In addition to finding a way off the fiscal cliff, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid and congressional leaders must address the 'Medicare doc fix.' AP Photo. Many recipients of Medicare services may not be aware of the ...
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Medicare Cuts Loom Large as 'Cliff' Nears
MedPage Today
WASHINGTON -- It's looking less and less likely that Congress and the White House will strike a deal to keep the country from falling over the "fiscal cliff" next week, so physicians are preparing for a 28.5% cut in Medicare payments that will take ...
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MedPage Today
Republicans shouldn't cut Medicare, raise age
Kennebec Journal
Let's cut Medicare by raising the eligibility age to 67. Who cares if it costs those 65 and 66 (or their employers) a lot more money for health insurance? Who cares if Medicare rates increase for those 67 and over, since healthier 65 and 66 year-olds ...
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Letter: Medicare changes kill more than guns
The Advocate
I read with interest your article in the Dec. 20 Advocate regarding President Barack Obama's appointment of Vice President Joe Biden as leader of a group to investigate possibly stricter rules for gun control. I guess this is a valiant effort, but in ...
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Decide by Dec. 31 whether to stay in Medicare, societies say
TheHeart.Org
Washington, DC - As the threat of a massive cut in Medicare reimbursement on January 1, 2013 becomes more real, two medical societies are reminding members that they have until December 31, 2012 to decide how they want to participate in the ...
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The Medicare Part D Drug Rebate Proposal: Rebutting An Unpersuasive Critique
Health Affairs (blog)
A proposal to require manufacturers to pay a minimum rebate on drugs covered under Medicare Part D for those beneficiaries who receive the program's Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) has received considerable attention during the current debate over the federal ...
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Fiscal cliff gridlock could bring 29% Medicare cut to docs
DOTmed.com
The American Medical Association features a countdown timer prominently on its website, ticking off the seconds until the new year. But the society, which represents a quarter of the nation's doctors, is not simply being festive. It's warning about the ...
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Fiscal Cliff Deadline: Changes to Medicare Age Eligibility?
Hive Health Media (blog)
With the fiscal cliff deadline approaching in the United States , one consequence of which will be cuts to Medicare. Medicare costs too much. It is a huge drain on the federal budget. That budget is at totally unsustainable levels of indebtedness ...
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Medicare Quality Bonuses to Hospitals a Game-Changer - Yahoo ...
From Yahoo! News: As the Affordable Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010, moves toward its third anniversary, more of its incremental changes are being ...
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Google Alert - Obamacare News

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Religious liberty and ObamaCare | Fox News Video
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Description. Talking Points 12/27. Duration 3:09; Date Dec 27, 2012. Advertisement. Clips. Also ...
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Google Alert - Obamacare News

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Ezra Klein: ObamaCare Taxes Rich To Give ...
Ezra Klein lists some of the benefits that will come into effect under Obamacare this year ...
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Google Alert - Medicare

News9 new results for Medicare
 
Decide by Dec. 31 Whether to Stay in Medicare, Societies Say
Medscape
As the threat of a massive cut in Medicare reimbursement on January 1 becomes more real, 2 medical societies are reminding their members that they have until December 31 to decide how they want to participate in the program — if at all — next year.
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Medscape
Better health care will reduce Medicare costs
San Antonio Express
Sad, sad, sad that in talking about budget cuts, we use painful words like "extracting billions from Medicare" or "slashing the Medicare entitlement." Has it ever occurred to the gladiators that improving the quality of health care can also save money ...
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SHIBA to offer class explaining Medicare
Albany Democrat Herald (blog)
Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance (SHIBA) will offer a Medicare class on Thursday, Jan. 17, that will cover the basics of Medicare. The class will include information on parts A, B, C and D and is designed for anyone who is new to Medicare or ...
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Preparing for the new Medicare tax
Palm Beach Post
Answer: Beginning in 2013, some high-wage earners will pay an extra 0.9 percent Medicare tax on a portion of their wage income, in addition to the 1.45 percent Medicare tax that all wage earners pay. The 0.9 percent tax applies to wages in excess of ...
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Medicare premium help not yet renewed for 2013
Tucson Citizen
I just received a letter from Arizona AHCCCS stating that the Medicare Savings Program has not been funded by the U.S. Congress and beginning Jan. 1, 2013, Part B premiums will no longer be paid under the QMB Medicare Savings Program. This letter ...
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Planning around Medicare 'surtax'
Marietta Daily Journal
With many other tax rates likely increasing, many investors are particularly unhappy about the Medicare "surtax" on net investment income. Simply "quit investing" is hardly an option for most of us who are saving for our retirement. So the next ...
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Medicare's Extra Help can provide assistance with drug costs
Times-Journal
Through Medicare's "Extra Help" program, if you have limited income and resources, you might pay no more than $2.60 for each generic drug and $6.50 for each brand name drug. kAm%96 r6?E6CD 7@C |65:42C6 2?5 |65:42:5 $6CG:46D 6DE:>2E6D E92E ...
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Sequestration, Medicare Cuts: Likely Result From Fiscal Cliff Talks
Becker's Hospital Review
President Barack Obama is returning to Washington, D.C., today, cutting short his holiday vacation, to prompt further negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff. However, senior officials in both parties are beginning to resign to the fact a deal to avoid ...
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Samaritan attempts to improve Medicare patient satisfaction
Columbia Basin Herald
The mandatory program involves the five hospitals with the lowest Medicare patient satisfaction scores in the two states, said Laurie Polneau, one of the hospital's administrators. The new program will start with the obstetrics department, because that ...
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Google Alert - health insurance News

News10 new results for health insurance News
 
Health care law may help Baby Boomers
USA TODAY
Since the recession, Boomers have been hard hit by unemployment, shrinking nest eggs and rising health care costs. During those years, about 8.6 million Boomers were without health insurance, according to a special 2009 report by Commonwealth Fund.
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With most health law hurdles gone, Illinois sprints to enact exchange
Chicago Tribune
Now the race is on to prepare for the most massive changes to the health care system in a generation, an overhaul that aims to expand insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans. With most of the law's major provisions taking effect Jan. 1 ...
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Chicago Tribune
Health Care Tax Hikes for 2013 May Be Just the Beginning
DailyFinance
1 to help finance President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Most people may not notice. But they will pay attention if Congress decides to start taxing employer-sponsored health insurance, one option in play if lawmakers can ever agree on a budget ...
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A 401K for Health Care?
Fox Business
Now with Obama kept kicking in companies -- looking thing anyway they can save some money on the health insurance costs sum -- considering giving employees a set amount of money. Eleven and just go out and get the health insurance settled on the road ...
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Chinese Health Care Improves, but More Reforms Needed
Voice of America
Ninety-five percent of China's 1.3 billion people are covered by some form of health insurance, making it what the white paper said is the "world's largest network of basic medical security." "No other country in the world has implemented system-wide ...
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Voice of America
Health Reform: What's Coming in 2013
WebMD
It survived a Supreme Court challenge and another during the presidential election. With President Obama in office for another four years, the health reform law will continue down the road to take full effect in 2014. But there is much work yet to be ...
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GRADUAL CHANGES IN STORE AS HEALTH CARE ACT TAKES EFFECT
U-T San Diego
WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act's biggest year is, without a doubt, 2014: That's when the federal subsidies to purchase health insurance roll out. It's also when penalties for not buying coverage kick in. But many of the big changes will start ...
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Calif. union nurses barred until weekend
ModernHealthcare.com
The unionized nurses, members of the California Nurses Association, were protesting proposed cuts to pay and benefits, including vacation days and health insurance. The earliest the CNA members could return to the three hospitals is Saturday. The union ...
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Health care law: Hobby Lobby to defy morning-after mandate
Amarillo.com
WASHINGTON — An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill, despite risking potential ...
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Health Net Insurance to Stop Serving Some Desert Hospitals
Patch.com
Health insurance provider Health Net, Inc. announced Thursday it will stop covering medical and health services at six Southern California hospitals run by Tenet Healthcare after contract negotiations broke down. As a three-year contract came to a ...
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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Google Alert - Obamacare News

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Tenther News 12-26-12: NDAA, Obamacare and ...
9 min
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Google Alert - Medicare

News7 new results for Medicare
 
TONI KING: Enrolling in Medicare at the right time!
Your Houston News (blog)
Enrolling in Medicare can be very confusing! Most people think that when they turn 65, a magical switch is turned on and poof you are on Medicare! Medicare changed the rules during the Clinton administration, when Social Security extended the time for ...
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Medicare doctors say reimbursement cuts will cause them to see fewer patients
WPTV
But unless Washington can cut a deal to avoid automatic spending cuts put in place by their last budget deal, Medicare payments to doctors will be cut by 27 percent. "Just like any other small business, we really have no way to absorb that kind of a ...
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WPTV
Editorial: A foolish Medicare 'reform'
Wicked Local
One of the worst — and, unfortunately, most persistent — is the idea of raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67. There are several ways to explain the problem with this proposal. For starters, Medicare is an insurance program and, like ...
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Tom Blackwell to Lead Ringler Medicare Solutions
ClaimsJournal.com
As program director of Ringler Medicare Solutions, Blackwell joins a team of professionals in the administration of workers' compensation claims, liability claims and in claim settlement strategies where Medicare and Medicaid consideration is necessary.
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ClaimsJournal.com
Fiscal Cliff effects could be felt in Medicare
KWCH
"If they do that they are taking two of the probably healthiest and youngest ages out of the Medicare program and so when you take a healthy person out of a health program you are going to increase the premiums," counselor Gerald Schmitt said ...
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Auburn Community Hospital losing $100K in Medicare funding
Auburn Citizen
Auburn Community Hospital will lose $100,000 worth of Medicare payments next year after the federal program penalized the hospital for providing its patients — in some cases — with less-than-average levels of care. According to recently released ...
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Medicare and disaster or emergency areas
Hernando Today
As Floridians we are no stranger to disasters so these Medicare facts seemed timely in the wake of Sandy's destruction in the Northeast of the US. Medicare has special rules where (1) The President has declared an emergency or major disasters or when ...
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Web1 new result for Medicare
 
Medicare ID bill passes House
WASHINGTON – The House passed a bill late Thursday that asks the government to change Medicare cards so they do not include seniors Social Security ...
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