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Integrated Single Specialty Provider Healthcare Model Can Help Medicare Plans Save Millions By Delivering Evidence-Based Cancer Care
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareNew 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 ove ...
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Sun Mar 2010
Health Reform Fact Check: Republicans Have Used Reconciliation, Obama Bill Will Bring Down Health Costs
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareSeveral 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... ...
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Legislation Requires Hospitals To Disclose Prices In Wisconsin
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareThe 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... ...
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Medicare Payment Issues Raise Questions, Concerns
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareMedicare 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 ...
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Today's OpEds: Positive And Negative Consequences Of Health Reform
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareIf 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. ...
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Medical Miracles More Likely, But At What Cost?
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareThe Fiscal Times reports on medical miracles and their place in the national health care reform debate with a likely subheading: high health care costs. "The idea of foregoing heroic efforts and new technologies to save dying patients is anathema for most Americans... ...
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Eligible Consumers Should Act Before March 31 To Enroll In Medicare
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareConsumers 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 co ...
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Physician's Perspective: Bundling Medicare Payments Could Cut Costs, Without Reducing Quality
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareThe 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 com ...
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States Struggle With Strapped Budgets, Cuts To Health Programs
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareThe 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 h ...
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Administration, Health Insurers Point Fingers At Each Other In Premium Hike Dust-Up
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareThe Obama administration and insurance industry executives are continuing their battle over rate increases. Politico: "Insurance industry executives sat down with administration officials in the White House last week to justify their rising premium costs, attributing them to increasing m ...
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Medicare Ends Contract With Fox Insurance Company Drug Plan
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today terminated its contract with Fox Insurance Company. After an onsite review of the plan and its services, CMS determined that the plan's significant deficiencies - not meeting Medicare's requirements to provide enrollees with prescription dru ...
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Medicare Suspends Marketing And Enrollment For Fox Insurance Company Drug Plan
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) directed Fox Insurance Company of New York to immediately suspend marketing and enrollment of new members in the organization's Medicare Part D prescription drug plans... ...
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Obama Promise Of Health Care Cost Savings Through Efficiency Achieved By Innovative Teleradiology Company
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareMusculoskeletal Imaging Consultants (MSKIC) announces release of "Inside Business with Fred Thompson" documentary. MSKIC accomplishes Obama challenge of "more for less" by leveraging technology and bypassing obstructions to health information sharing... ...
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Ownership/Leasing Of PET Scanners By Nonradiologists On The Rise
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareJust as with computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the growth rate among non-radiologists who own or lease positron emission tomography (PET) equipment is also on the rise, contributing significantly to the ongoing issues surrounding self-referral and unnecessary utilization ...
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Warren Buffett Supports Senate Bill, Franken And Ryan Pushing Their Health Reform Ideas
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareVarious personalities are weighing in on health legislation. CNBC interviewed billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who "called the nation's health care spending 'untenable,' comparing 'out of control' costs to a 'tapeworm eating at our economic body... ...
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Attention Seniors: The Countdown Begins To The End Of Medicare Open Enrollment
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareHealth Net, Inc. reminds seniors, age 65 or older, and others who are eligible for Medicare that the Medicare Open Enrollment period closes on Wed., Mar. 31, 2010... ...
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Coalition To Protect Patients' Rights: Medicare Being Cut Today
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareDue to Congressional inaction, Medicare's reimbursement rates to doctors for their care of our nation's elderly population will be cut a staggering 21 percent today... ...
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Senior Citizens Face New Obstacles To Getting Care, After Medicare Slashes Payments
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareThe California Medical Association renewed its call for Congress to reverse deep Medicare cuts that took effect today and threaten the ability of senior citizens to get access to medical care. "As physicians, our mission in life is to serve our patients and protect their health," said Brennan Cassi ...
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Bunning Continues To Block COBRA Subsidy Extension, Medicare 'Doc Fix'
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareSen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., is blocking a bill that would temporarily extend unemployment benefits and federal subsidies for some health insurance benefits. The Los Angeles Times: "Bunning used one of the Senate's arcane procedural tactics to hold up the measure as a way of protesting the f ...
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Doctors Issue Warnings About Reduced Access As Congressional Inaction Cuts Medicare Pay
Categorie : Medicare / Medicaid / TricareA political deadlock in the Senate has triggered a 21 percent Medicare pay reduction to doctors who say they may have to limit care for older Americans unless the reduction is reversed. The Associated Press reports that "the Obama administration directed Medicare billing contractors to hold off pro ...
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