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Ohio's health-insurance exchange a mystery Columbus Dispatch The federal government announced this month that it will spend $54 million in prevention and public-health funds to hire nonprofit groups and individual "insurance navigators" to educate and help enroll consumers in the exchanges. Ohio's share is $2.26 ... See all stories on this topic » Columbus Dispatch

Study shows millions of Americans are without adequate health insurance Examiner.com The debate about health care costs and how to best make health care available and affordable for all Americans has become one of the most contentious issues across the United States. Medical News Today has reported on April 26, 2013, Millions of ... See all stories on this topic »

'Health insurance scheme to cover Nigeria in 2015' The Punch The Community Based Social Health Insurance Scheme will cover the entire country by 2015, the acting National Health Insurance Scheme Executive Secretary of the NHIS, Dr. Abdulrahman Sambo, has said. He said this in an interview with SUNDAY ... See all stories on this topic »

Autistic children losing services in state health insurance transition ... San Jose Mercury News While the number of families affected is small, their plight underscores the huge changes on the horizon for health care consumers as they navigate ongoing state and federal health care reforms. Parents say they were promised the move would not disrupt ... See all stories on this topic »

Shannyn Moore: Health care cost strangles Alaskans Anchorage Daily News The job he hates includes health insurance for him and his family. He can't be sure that health insurance at a different job would cover them. If he interviewed for a new job, and asked too many questions about health coverage, he might scare them off ... See all stories on this topic » Anchorage Daily News

Florida Gov't Weekly Roundup: House, Senate Agree On Health Care, Justice ... NorthEscambia.com Perhaps the noisiest questions centered on whether the House and Senate will be able to agree on a plan to expand health coverage for low-income Floridians. But legislative leaders also still needed to finalize myriad details of a roughly $74 billion ... See all stories on this topic » NorthEscambia.com

Accepting federal health care funds good for all Kennebec Journal The rest is that voting to accept the federal money will help both middle-class Mainers who have health insurance and low-income Mainers who don't. Accepting the federal money will provide or maintain health insurance for nearly 70,000 Mainers who can ... See all stories on this topic »

Dodgers Staff Needs Health Insurance Call to the Pen As if not enough Dodger pitchers have been injured I was wondering just what the heck Mattingly was thinking a few days ago when I noticed his ace–his healthy ace–Clayton Kershaw in a box score as a pinch-hitter. It's one thing to be deprived of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Part-time professors lose work as Moberly community college avoids health ... The Republic COLUMBIA, Missouri — Some adjunct professors at Moberly Area Community College are losing work as the school seeks to lower the costs of providing health insurance to employees. The Columbia Daily Tribune (bit.ly/ZBPlMf ) reported that the school has ... See all stories on this topic »

The Cost of Health Care in the Magic Valley - Times-News Twin Falls Times-News About a month ago, we asked readers to submit recent medical bills. We received bills dated from May 2012 to February 2013. From there, we selected seven common medical and diagnostic imaging procedures that appeared on those bills. We provided the ... See all stories on this topic »

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Wages Subject to Social Security Tax Wall Street Journal Now get ready for a new twist: Starting this year, many upper-income taxpayers have to pay an additional 0.9% Medicare tax on earned income above a certain threshold. The threshold generally is $200,000, but it's $250,000 for married couples who file ... See all stories on this topic »

The solution Medicare is shutting down Washington Post When Ken Coburn has visitors to the cramped offices of Health Quality Partners in Doylestown, Pa., he likes to show them a graph. It's not his graph, he's quick to say. Coburn is not the sort to take credit for other's work. But it's a graph that ... See all stories on this topic »

Elder Law: What Medicare covers in a skilled nursing facility - Cumberlink Carlisle Sentinel Since Title 18 of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1965 introduced Medicare, American citizens have confidently expected that, when we reach age 65, Medicare will be available to pay for health care. Permanent resident aliens may also qualify for ... See all stories on this topic »

Protect seniors from unscrupulous Medicare scams Kansas City Star Faxes sent to her office requested authorization for medical equipment and testing products her patients didn't want or need. One patient reported badgering sales calls over several days. Medicare would have paid the bills, had she obliged. But she ... See all stories on this topic » Kansas City Star

"Welcome to Medicare", will be broadcast on KIXE-TV Red Bluff Daily News A public television and public radio simulcast show called, "Welcome to Medicare," will be broadcast on KIXE-TV (Channel 9) and KCHO/KFPR Northstate Public Radio (91.7 FM Chico, 88.9 FM Redding) at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 2. This is a call-in show, ... See all stories on this topic »

Help for Medicare Costs Tucson Citizen Anyone on Medicare with monthly income below $1,313 (individual) or $1,765 (married couple) can get help through the Medicare Savings Program, which is funded by the federal government, but administered through state Medicaid offices. In Tucson, the ... See all stories on this topic »

Feds warn Nev. mental hospital over patient 'dumping' Detroit Free Press Federal health regulators have threatened to take away Medicare funding from Nevada's main public psychiatric hospital because it sent patients on one-way bus rides to California and 46 other states during the past five years. The Rawson-Neal ... See all stories on this topic »

HOWARD KOSSOVER: Can Medicare cover family members? Grand Forks Herald First, Medicare provides individual coverage only. It does not have family coverage. Second, age-based Medicare cannot begin until 65. Depending on her personal work record, your wife should be eligible for Medicare through either her work or yours ... See all stories on this topic »

Qualifying for Medicare rehabilitation services Port Huron Times Herald However, if you were only in the hospital under observation, your rehab will be private pay from Day 1. If you have a Medicare Advantage plan, you are not covered by traditional Medicare and you have to consult your plan documents for the determination ... See all stories on this topic »

Democrats, GOP dig in their heels on deficit reduction - Newsday Newsday And now, top Democrats are staunchly opposing changes to Medicare and Social Security benefits, despite studies showing the programs' financial paths are unsustainable. Unless something gives, it's hard to see what will produce the major compromises ... See all stories on this topic »

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ObamaCare Clusterfuck: RJ Eskow endorses Medicare for All (kinda ... By lambert Op-Ed News, all the way at the last paragraph: I still feel the way I did in 2009 when I wrote that "progressive groupthink hindered health reform." The reflexive instinct to support a Democratic-proposed policy led to the mind-bending spectacle ... lambert's blog

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Medicare Plans to Boost Pay to U.S. Hospitals by 0.8% - Bloomberg Hospitals will get a pay raise from the U.S. government for treating patients in the nation's Medicare program. www.bloomberg.com/.../medicare-plans-to-boost-pay-to-u-s-h...

Senator Puts Hold on Medicare Nominee - WSJ.com Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, irked by Obama administration plans to cut funding for a government health program, temporarily blocked the White House's ... online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424127887324235304578440743...

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Under criticism, GOP puts off health care bill Ottumwacourier WASHINGTON (AP) — An effort by House Republicans to highlight problems with President Barack Obama's health care law by bailing out a program for people with pre-existing medical conditions appeared to backfire Wednesday. GOP leaders postponed a ... See all stories on this topic »

Conn. seeks to blunt health plan premiums' costs Ct Post As government officials and insurers work to create the marketplaces known as exchanges that are the hallmark of the federal health care overhaul, a major concern for both has been that cost of insurance will be higher than families, individuals and ... See all stories on this topic »

Health care directives can safeguard your medical wishes and save your loved ... PennLive.com It's not a pleasant topic, but having these health-care directives finalized before a tragedy or end-of-life situation strikes can ensure that your medical wishes and your loved ones' needs are met. Bell sees her choice to set her desires in stone as a ... See all stories on this topic »

Health Care: UCFS adjusts to tough climate Norwich Bulletin Despite the contractions, UCFS is moving forward with an expansion of its 47 Town Street plaza, doubling the number of medical treatment rooms, adding capacity for mental health services and improving traffic flow throughout the facility, Cowser said. See all stories on this topic »

Texas Medicaid debate pits rival visions of health care law Dallas Morning News Lois Kolkhorst, chairwoman of the House Public Health Committee. She says the state should wait to gauge the effect of the other major provision that the Affordable Care Act uses to expand health coverage, a new insurance exchange. Kolkhorst argues ... See all stories on this topic »

Florida House passes health care bill The News-Press The Republican-controlled Florida House on Friday passed its plan to provide health coverage to about 115,000 of the state's neediest residents but bypassed tens of billions of federal dollars available under the Affordable Care Act. The bill's passage ... See all stories on this topic »

Study: 80 million Americans didn't use health care services due to cost WEAR The survey also found nearly half of all working-age U.S. adults, 84 million people, went without health insurance for a time last year or had out-of-pocket costs that were so high relative to their income they were considered underinsured. Those who ... See all stories on this topic » WEAR

Health care fight to continue after session ends KULR-TV (AP) — The Legislative session may be over, but Medicaid expansion advocates say the fight to get health insurance to the working poor will continue. Advocates and Gov. Steve Bullock are considering their options after the Legislature killed the ... See all stories on this topic »

Medicine: Increased access to health care brings opportunities, challenges Norwich Bulletin Bob Roberge, 73, of Griswold has his blood pressure takenby nurse Lisa Cook of Lebanon at the William W. Backus Hospital's mobile health unit in Jewett City on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Roberge said he gets his blood pressure checked at the van as often ... See all stories on this topic »

New York's small businesses and workers will benefit fom Affordable Care Act Buffalo News Because they had less bargaining power, small businesses paid an average of 18 percent more for the same health insurance plan offered to the bigger business down the street, and their premiums could skyrocket if a single employee got sick. That made ... See all stories on this topic »

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US agency moves against Nevada hospital cited for "patient dumping" Reuters The Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital was warned it was in violation of Medicare rules governing the discharge of patients and could lose critical funding under the federal healthcare insurance program if it failed to correct the problem. The notice ... See all stories on this topic »

Your biggest assets are Social Security, Medicare MarketWatch They know — without ever quite articulating it in this way — that Social Security and Medicare are the most valuable assets they possess. That's why they are so protective of these programs, despite the best efforts of some to persuade them that the ... See all stories on this topic » MarketWatch

Medicare Plans to Boost Pay to US Hospitals by 0.8% Next Year Businessweek The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to raise payments 0.8 percent beginning Oct. 1 for services that elderly and disabled patients receive after being admitted to hospitals, according to a regulatory proposal today. Long-term care ... See all stories on this topic »

Medicare Part D is worth protecting Chillicothe Gazette When it convenes in the future, the IPAB will recommend ways to hold down costs in Medicare. It is expected that some recommendations will restrict access to some medicines and treatments. The IPAB is unaccountable to Congress and its decisions cannot ... See all stories on this topic »

Medicare card scam prompts warning St. George Daily Spectrum ST. GEORGE — Evelyn Hardy was suspicious when she received a phone call earlier this month, informing her that she needed a new Medicare card. When the caller asked for Hardy's bank account number to complete the process, her fears were confirmed, ... See all stories on this topic »

LA jury finds three guilty in $1.5-million Medicare fraud scheme Los Angeles Times The Obama administration has tried to crack down on fraud and abuse in Medicare in hopes of recovering some of the estimated $60 billion lost annually in the federal program. The government's enforcement efforts have taken on added importance at a time ... See all stories on this topic »

Brunswick man guilty in Medicare fraud scheme San Francisco Chronicle First Assistant District Attorney James Durham says 46-year-old Avetik Moskovian and co-conspirators defrauded Medicare of about $1.5 million through a medical equipment company based in Brunswick. Durham says they billed Medicare for services that ... See all stories on this topic »

Raising eligibility age and reforming some Medicare practices can increase ... News-Medical.net Raising the age of eligibility and reforming some Medicare practices can go a long way to making it sustainable, according to three Arizona State University healthcare policy experts. "Given our demographics and the rapidly increasing costs of medical ... See all stories on this topic »

Cancer is inconvenient, but missing your flight is death - AMERICAblog AMERICAblog (blog) In the case of Medicare, thousands of Medicare patients are being turned away from one set of cancer clinics in the New York area alone because of sequester-related cuts in Medicare benefits. The center has been forced to stop providing chemotherapy to ... See all stories on this topic » AMERICAblog (blog)

Program offers free Medicare counseling Lebanon Daily News The expansion of APPRISE, the state health insurance program run by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, will provide Medicare recipients more convenience and opportunities to receive free counseling services, where they can review their options for ... See all stories on this topic »

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Saving Medicare through Patient-Centered Changes — The Case of ... Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Saving Medicare through Patient-Centered Changes — The Case of Injectables. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1213485

Medicare cuts hit cancer patients - San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area oncologists say the mandated federal spending cuts that went into effect this month are putting the squeeze on their ability to administer expensive ... www.sfchronicle.com/.../Medicare-cuts-hit-cancer-patients-44...

Cashing an IRA and income-related monthly adjustments for ... If you cashed an IRA two years ago, it may increase your premiums this year. That is because we generally use tax returns from two years ago to figure ... ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/.../cashing-an-ira-and-income-related-mo...

Commentary: Think Obama's Medicare Savings Aren't Significant ... This judgment seems rooted in the belief that the budget's changes affecting Medicare beneficiaries, which save a modest $64 billion over the first ten years ( the ... www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3959

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Health Insurance Shortfalls Hit Nearly Half of U.S. Adults: Report - Philly.com Philly.com Nearly half of all working-age U.S. adults faced the prospect of crippling medical bills in 2012. For the first time in a decade, younger adults saw coverage gains. Nearly 2 million more young adults had health insurance in 2012 compared to 2010. See all stories on this topic » Philly.com

Fla. House passes limited health care bill San Francisco Chronicle TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Florida House on Friday passed its plan to provide health coverage to about 115,000 of the state's neediest residents but bypassed tens of billions of federal dollars available under the Affordable ... See all stories on this topic »

Falling health care costs come at a price CBS News (MoneyWatch) Health care costs continue to rise. But health care employment? Not necessarily. As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, the industry, which has traditionally offered many well-paying jobs for those without extensive education, is ... See all stories on this topic » CBS News

Lack of health insurance persists ahead of 2014, study finds The Hill (blog) Nearly half of the U.S. working population lacked health insurance or adequate coverage in 2012, but many of those individuals will benefit next year as major provisions of the Affordable Care Act take effect, according to The Commonwealth Fund. The ... See all stories on this topic »

Health-Care Reform Could Help You Retire Early Fox Business Health-care reform boots pre-existing condition coverage restrictions to the curb, and narrowed age bands and modified community ratings will smooth out the incredible age-related spikes in premium costs. Premium tax credits will help those who are ... See all stories on this topic »

Conn. seeks to blunt health plan premiums' costs Boston.com HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As they consider ways to reduce prices for people buying health insurance on the state's new marketplace, Connecticut officials are learning their options are narrow and could affect the state's insurance industry, a major employer. See all stories on this topic »

City's health plan to soon cover 'gender confirmation surgery' - Philly.com Philly.com Councilman James F. Kenney asks a question of Pedro A. Ramos, chairman of the SRC, during a City Council hearing on the Philadelphia School District's proposed budget, which includes a $94 million funding increase request. The hearing was held in City ... See all stories on this topic » Philly.com

Health insurance shortfalls charted Kansas City Star The survey, released today, revealed one bright spot in the health care coverage data: The percentage of uninsured young people ages 19-25 fell to 41 percent from 48 percent. The 2010 health care law required insurance companies to let children stay on ... See all stories on this topic »

Health care fight to continue after session ends Great Falls Tribune Brenda Stafford speaks at a Medicaid expansion rally in March in Helena. The Montana legislative session may be over, but Medicaid expansion advocates say the fight to get health insurance to the working poor will continue. / AP Photo/Matt Gouras ... See all stories on this topic »

Harkin blocks health care nominee DesMoinesRegister.com The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has diverted some money to pay for the federal health insurance exchange required by the Affordable Care Act. Congress siphoned away more to reimburse doctors for health care they've provided. See all stories on this topic »

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