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Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News From Medical News Today
Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.
Eligible Consumers Should Act Before March 31 To Enroll In Medicare
10/03/10 - Consumers eligible for Medicare should enroll in Medicare Part B during the 2010 General Enrollment Period (GEP), which ends on March 31. Consumers who are not enrolled in Medicare, but should be, are urged to enroll by March 31 for Part B coverage, which would take effect July 1. Medicare Part B covers doctor visits and other outpatient care...
Physician's Perspective: Bundling Medicare Payments Could Cut Costs, Without Reducing Quality
10/03/10 - The Washington Post has a section today titled "Scenes from the 21st century doctor's office." One feature, written by Manoj Jain, an infectious-disease specialist in Memphis, advocates for a new system of "bundled" Medicare payments to doctors. He notes that currently, "patients, insurance companies and Medicare pay separately for each procedure in the predominant 'fee-for-service' model...
States Struggle With Strapped Budgets, Cuts To Health Programs
10/03/10 - The Dallas Morning News: "Lawmakers have been thinking ahead to a massive shortfall, topping $10 billion, that's probably coming when they write the next budget in 2011. But state officials told them Monday that they'll have to fix a hole in the current budget, too. Rising health care costs have dug a hole of about $1.7 billion, the officials said...
Medicare Payment Issues Raise Questions, Concerns
09/03/10 - Medicare payment issues including rising costs, caps on physical therapy and other outpatient services for some patients are in the news. The Dallas Morning News reports that Medicare Advantage plans with drug benefits are getting more expensive: "Seniors in those plans will pay an average of $39.61 a month this year in premiums, up 14...
Today's OpEds: Positive And Negative Consequences Of Health Reform
09/03/10 - If Reform Fails The New York Times Any change as big as this is bound to cause anxiety. Republicans have happily fanned those fears with talk of "dangerous experiments" on the "best health care system in the world." The fact is that the health care system is broken for far too many Americans. And the country cannot afford the status quo (3/6)...
Racial Differences In Hospice Use For Heart Failure
09/03/10 - Building on previous studies that found racial differences in hospice use, a new study from the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife and Boston University School of Medicine finds that blacks and Hispanics use hospice for advanced heart failure at a rate of up to 50 percent less than whites, despite a markedly higher rate of incidence of the disease in these populations...
Integrated Single Specialty Provider Healthcare Model Can Help Medicare Plans Save Millions By Delivering Evidence-Based Cancer Care
08/03/10 - New Century Infusion Solutions, Inc. (NCIS), the first Oncology Benefit Management (OBM) company, is pleased to announce the publication of a white paper by the Lewin Group: "Medicare Cancer Care Coordination Using The Integrated Single Specialty Provider (ISSP) Model." The report estimates that over a 10-year horizon, a payer could realize oncology savings of "$16...
Health Reform Fact Check: Republicans Have Used Reconciliation, Obama Bill Will Bring Down Health Costs
08/03/10 - Several news organization have "fact checks" on the reconciliation procedure and health reform provisions. The Associated Press examined then-candidate Barack Obama's Oct. 2007 statement of "We're not going to pass universal health care with a 50-plus-one strategy...
Legislation Requires Hospitals To Disclose Prices In Wisconsin
08/03/10 - The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "The frustration of finding out what hospitals and doctors charge for common services -- from routine office visits to diagnostic tests and surgical procedures -- could soon get a lot easier in Wisconsin...
Neurologists On Capitol Hill To Push For Health Care Reform
06/03/10 - What: More than 100 neurologists from 40 states will be in Washington, DC, March 8-9, 2010, for "Neurology on the Hill," an event hosted by the American Academy of Neurology to educate lawmakers about the need for health care reform changes that consider neurologists and the patients they treat, including people with Alzheimer's disease, stroke, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, mi...
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