News tagged with medicare
94 charged in Medicare scams totaling $251M
(AP) -- Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic. Claims flooded in from Miami for HIV treatments that never occurred. One professional patient was named ...
Jul 17, 2010 |
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Doctors brace for possible big Medicare pay cuts
(AP) -- Breast cancer surgeon Kathryn Wagner has posted a warning in her waiting room about a different sort of risk to patients' health: She'll stop taking new Medicare cases if Congress allows looming cuts ...
Nov 13, 2010 |
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Medicare reimbursement change meant to save money has opposite effect
Increased Medicare payments to physicians for outpatient surgeries for bladder cancer have led to a dramatic rise in the number of these procedures being performed and an overall increase in cost to the healthcare system. ...
Feb 08, 2010 |
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Medicare's private eyes let fraud cases get cold
(AP) -- They don't seem that interested in hot pursuit. It took private sleuths hired by Medicare an average of six months last year to refer fraud cases to law enforcement.
Aug 08, 2010 |
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Medicare auction will face severe difficulties, research shows
Medicare's new method for buying medical supplies and equipment -- everything from wheelchairs and hospital beds to insulin shots and oxygen tanks -- is doomed to face severe difficulties, according to a new ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
15 hours ago |
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Doctors, AARP support new health overhaul bill
(AP) -- The nation's largest association of doctors and the AARP senior citizens' lobby are endorsing President Barack Obama's revised health overhaul legislation.
Mar 19, 2010 |
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What you pay for Medicare won't cover your costs
(AP) -- You paid your Medicare taxes all those years and think you deserve your money's worth: full benefits after you retire.
Dec 30, 2010 |
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Sunscreen makes good economic sense
(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying sunscreen on a regular basis not only prevents cancer, but will save the government money.
Nov 30, 2009 |
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For post-boomers, public education worth more than Social Security and Medicare
It's popular to assume retiring baby boomers will benefit from Social Security and Medicare at the expense of younger generations, as analysts estimate that these government-run programs will pay out more than they collect ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Roundtable looks at longevity and the boomers
It's been called "elderquake" and "the silver tsunami." Its statistics are staggering: Over the next three decades, the number of people older than 65 in the United States will double from 40 million to 80 ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Few Americans make end-of-life wishes known
(AP) -- Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend ...
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Blacks, Hispanics Less Likely Eligible for Medicare Prescription Help
Medicare’s Part D prescription medication management program, also known as Medication Therapy Management, could be off limits to some of the patients who need it most — older African-Americans and Hispanics — a new study ...
May 21, 2010 |
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1 in 4 hospitalized heart failure patients with Medicare back in hospital within a month
Almost a quarter of heart failure patients with Medicare are back in the hospital within a month after discharge, researchers report in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association.
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Study shows health care spending spurs economic growth
As the national discussion of health care focuses on costs, a new study from North Carolina State University shows that it might be more accurate to think of health care spending as an investment that can spur economic growth. ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Physician bias might keep life-saving transplants from black and Hispanic patients
Physician bias might be the reason why African Americans are not receiving kidney/pancreas transplants at the same rate as similar patients in other racial groups. Dr. Keith Melancon, director of kidney and pancreas transplantation ...
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Medicare (United States)
Medicare is a social insurance program administered by the United States government, providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over, or who meet other special criteria. Medicare operates as a single-payer health care system. The Social Security Act of 1965 was passed by Congress in late-spring of 1965 and signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to Social Security legislation. At the bill-signing ceremony President Johnson enrolled former President Harry S. Truman as the first Medicare beneficiary and presented him with the first Medicare card.
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