Navigation On Topic Complete Directory About Us Add-site Link to Us MerchantStore Shopping	Advertisement 23 Health - Medicare Benefits Resources 36 Arrested in Medicare Scams Totaling $280M Federal authorities said Friday they are conducting the largest Medicare fraud bust ever in five different states and arrested dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling $251 million. View Source July 16, 2010 Provides Information A AARP Guide to the New Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage. View Source   Provides Information Administration touts Medicare savings report; Republicans complain it misleads seniors A report issued Monday by the Obama administration found that the new health care law "will save Medicare $8 billion by the end of 2011, and $575 billion over the next decade, largely by improving care quality and preventing waste and fraud." The report also predicts that the overhaul will "extend the life of the program more than a decade. ... In 2009, the Medicare trustees projected that Medicare's hospital trust fund would run dry by 2017. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information C CMS aids Medicare counseling programs In the latest healthcare reforms there was a mandatory freeze in payments of $130 billion over the next decade. This was criticized by President Obama as a corporate giveaway. View Source April 6, 2010 Provides Information Cut in Medicare reimbursement to physicians will jeopardize timely surgical care The results of a new member survey by the nation's Surgical Coalition shows that the more than 21 percent pay cut to physicians that is scheduled to take effect April 1 will make it difficult, if not impossible, for already financially strapped surgical practices to continue to treat Medicare patients. A majority of the more than 14,000 surgeons and anesthesiologists who responded to the survey indicated that they will be forced to make significant changes in their practices if the cut goes into effect and that timely access to surgical care will be jeopardized if Medicare payments continue to decline. View Source March 27, 2010 Provides Information D Doctors, Pelosi pan Senate-passed 'doc fix' plan USA Today: Doctors are limiting the number of new Medicare patients they are seeing, concerned about reimbursements pay from the federal program. "Recent surveys by national and state medical societies have found more doctors limiting Medicare patients, partly because Congress has failed to stop an automatic 21% cut in payments that doctors already regard as too low. View Source June 21, 2010 Provides Information Don't Get Trapped By Medicare Enrollment Rules The rules for enrolling in Medicare are strict, and the cost of making a mistake can be high. View Source June 21, 2010 Provides Information M Medical Insurance Coding Consulting holds national seminars and consulting on medical insurance reimbursement including Medicare ICD9 CPT coding. Most seminars relate to a specific speciality View Source   Provides a Service Medicare The Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare. View Source   Provides Information Medicare expands coverage to help smokers quit They've lived with the health warnings about smoking for much of their lives and doubtless seen the ill effects on friends, relatives and even themselves, yet about 4.5 million older people in the U.S. keep on lighting up. View Source August 28, 2010 Provides Information Medicare Plan Choices What are Medicare Health Plans? View Source   Provides Information Medicare's Private Eyes Allow Fraud Cases to Get Cold 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. View Source August 8, 2010 Provides Information Medicare Rights Center Your Guide through the Medicare Maze. View Source   Provides Information Medicare to bundle payments for end-stage renal care, reward quality Modern Healthcare: Medicare payment for end-stage renal disease care may soon be tied to performance and quality measures if a new proposed rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is finalized. "If the rule is finalized, ESRD providers that do not meet set standards" - two measures for anemia management and one for hemodialysis quality - "could have their Medicare payments lowered by up to 2 percent starting January 2012, the CMS said". View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information O Obama bypasses Senate to fill Medicare post President Barack Obama appointed health expert Donald Berwick on Wednesday to run the Medicare and Medicaid programs that provide care to seniors and the poor, bypassing the Senate to fill a key job over Republican objections. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information P People in Medicare's two-year disability waiting period continue to wait The Oregonian: Sue Sherman of Southwest Portland was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and "joined nearly 2 million disabled Americans -- at least 15,000 in Oregon -- who fall into a twilight with the first monthly Social Security disability payment, for they then must wait two years to become eligible for Medicare." Many of them exhaust their savings "on the care necessary to reach a diagnosis and now cannot get private insurance." View Source June 28, 2010 Provides Information Prescription Solutions from PacifiCare The new Medicare Prescription Drug Program - Medicare Part D - is making prescription drug coverage available to more than 40 million people across the country. View Source   Provides a Service R Rating system for Medicare Advantage plans slated for upgrade Writing for Kaiser Health News in collaboration with The Washington Post, Susan Jaffe reports: "For consumers looking for bargains on refrigerators or restaurants, ratings can be helpful. But a score card doesn't work as well for selecting a Medicare private health plan" View Source June 16, 2010 Provides Information S State payer mandates to cover cancer trials offer heterogeneous protection for patients A 2001 federal law mandates care for Medicare-eligible patients enrolled in clinical trials; however, only 25 state laws cover clinical-trial related medical costs for non-Medicare patients, and these offer less protection than the federal law. A lawyer explains these findings in a special article published online March 2 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. View Source March 2, 2010 Provides Information T The Medicare donut hole: Now you're covered, now you're not If you're older, a woman, and suffering from either dementia or diabetes, you are the most likely to be exposed to unsubsidized medication costs in the US. This is known as the coverage gap for enrollees of Medicare Part D - the US federal program which subsidizes the cost of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. View Source March 25, 2010 Provides Information Top Dem Joins GOP Calls for Hearing on New Medicare Boss A Senate Democratic leader is considering a hearing for the incoming director of Medicare and Medicaid whose recess appointment by President Obama last week infuriated Republicans wanting to learn about finances linked to a nonprofit charity he ran. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information W What Health Care Reform Means for Medicare Drug Coverage The new law provides rebate checks for people when they hit the doughnut hole in their prescription-drug coverage. View Source April 6, 2010 Provides Information Will Medicare checks in the mail help Democrats? A check from Uncle Sam gets your attention, even if the money doesn't help that much with the bills. View Source August 14, 2010 Provides Information
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