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If you are living in the United States and do not have a health insurance, be aware! Once you are sick, and taken to a hospital, it is sure to fall heavily on your pocket – as the hospital will charge you ‘two-and-a-half times more’, compared...
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Senators and leading health care experts say that Medicare will become the test lab for changes aimed at making the overall health care system less wasteful.
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The state Department of Health Services on Thursday stood by its decision not to notify 5,000 Medicare recipients who were wrongly told their Social Security benefits...
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AP, Madison
Thousands of Wisconsin Medicare recipients were wrongly told their benefits were being cut by $300 and the state has not notified them of the mistake.
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Don’t ask Mattie Caldwell how many candles go on her birthday cake. “I don’t remember,” she said. Medicare records indicate Caldwell’s...
made popular Mar 6 2009
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For once, it wasn’t the troubled banks leading the stock market to a loss on Thursday. Health care stocks instead dragged down the market after the White House...
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President Barack Obama’s budget shows how difficult overhauling the nation’s health care system will be. Medicare cuts and tax hikes like the ones he...
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President Barack Obama is sending Congress a “hard choices” budget that would boost taxes on the wealthy and curtail Medicare payments to insurance...
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President Barack Obama is sending Congress a budget that would boost taxes on the wealthy and slash Medicare to make way for a $634 billion down payment on universal...
made popular Feb 26 2009
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Medicare costs vary wildly across the country, according to a study that found the government paying twice as much for treating a patient in Miami as in San Francisco.
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AP, Indianapolis
Several managed care stocks sank sharply Monday, one trading day after the government surprised analysts with a lower-than-expected increase in Medicare Advantage...
made popular Feb 23 2009
AP, Chicago
An ambitious effort to cut costs and keep aging, sick Medicare patients out of the hospital mostly didn’t work, a government-contracted study found. The...
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A federal appeals court has rejected a consumer group’s bid to use Medicare billing records to rate individual doctors.
made popular Feb 2 2009
AP, Louisville
Health insurer Humana Inc. reported a 28 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit Monday, driven by higher claim expenses from its stand-alone Medicare prescription drug...
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AP, Washington
Medicare has quietly expanded its coverage for cancer drugs to include some treatments that haven’t gotten the Food and Drug Administration’s full seal of...
made popular Jan 27 2009
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Treasury Secretary-designate Tim Geithner (GYT’-nur) says he was careless in failing to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes earlier this decade and...
made popular Jan 21 2009
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Pointing with concern to “red ink as far as the eye can see,” President-elect Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to tackle out-of-control Social Security and...
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President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday that reforming massive government entitlement programs _ such as Social Security and Medicare _ would be “a central...
made popular Jan 7 2009
AP, Miami
Three days a week Philip Audette sat in a cushy white chair at the St. Jude Rehab Center, a needle pumping HIV drugs into his arm. He talked and laughed with a dozen...
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New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services mistakenly released personal information about some Medicare recipients to its service providers two weeks...
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Medicare officials tried on Monday to quell growing worry by the elderly that they could lose access to lifesaving oxygen supplies with the start of the new year.
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