AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, challenged the major parties to commit to a serious review of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) to reflect the comprehensive nature and quality of care that patients receive from their family doctor and to allow new technologies and procedures to be embraced by general practice for the benefit of patients. Dr Pesce said that the MBS has failed to keep up with ...

I saw this posted at HATTIESBURGAMERICAN.COM.

"The best evidence that the well-intentioned Medicare program is out of control is not the fact that on Friday federal authorities charged 94 people in five cities with participating in scams that cost taxpayers $251 million."

The Medicare drug benefit may be helping more older Americans with heart failure get the medications recommended for controlling the disease, a new study finds.

From WWW.YOUTUBE.COM, thanks Amy

Marcus is looking for more info.

Lawmakers will wait until after the elections to tackle the Dec. 1 Medicare pay cut, observers predict.

Because of a regulation dating to 1966, Medicare does not pay for rehabilitation in a nursing home unless the patient first stayed in a hospital for three days.