Medicare Watch
From WWW.YOUTUBE.COM, thanks Marcus
This is the latest news as of March 11th.
"Pitching his healthcare reform legislation in suburban Missouri, the president announces a broadened initiative to block fraud in government health programs. Promoting a new initiative to reduce waste in Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs, President Obama traveled to suburban St. Louis on Wednesday to keep up momentum behind his push to complete work on a health overhaul this month."
I'll post more if I find anything else out.
Christina Jewett Medicare officials announced Tuesday that they are?tearing up?their contract with a New York-based company ? with 4,100 California clients ? that delayed or denied patients access to medications they needed. Fox Insurance Co. let down its123,000 enrollees by putting obstacles between patients and costly but life-sustaining medications for cancer and HIV, according to a release ...
The Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a jobs bill that would extend the COBRA subsidy program and Medicaid funding for states and prevent a Medicare reimbursement cut for doctors.
Like the sword of Damocles, Medicare payment cuts hang over doctors as Democrats push for a sweeping health care overhaul.
"Kaiser Health News staff writer Christopher Weaver outlines some key issues, starting with: "Should affluent Americans have to pay Medicare payroll tax on their investment income?"
From WWW.NEWS-MEDICAL.NET, thanks Jeremy
If Congress allows the 21% cut in Medicare payments to physicians then many physicians will choose to stop seeing Medicare patients. The House Clinic has...
Federal regulators have banned an insurer from selling Medicare prescription drug coverage and accused it of improperly delaying and denying coverage of HIV, cancer and seizure medications.