Sept. 25, 2007 – Seven of the Medicare Advantage Private-Fee-For-Service plans that suspended their marketing to senior citizens after complaints of excessively aggressive marketing are back in business.
The average Medicare beneficiary living with HIV/AIDS in South Florida in the second half of 2006 had nine times more Medicare claims than HIV-positive beneficiaries Nationwide, according to a report released this week by the HHS Office of Inspector General, the South Florida Business Journal reports.
The Hill on Friday published an interview with Glenn Hackbarth, chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, who discussed problems with the long-term financial stability of Medicare, reimbursements for private Medicare advantage plans and physician reimbursements, among other issues.
Problems with the long-term financial stability of Medicare and other entitlement programs are “going to be a massive fiscal hurricane” as baby boomers begin to retire next year, Senate Budget Committee ranking member Judd Gregg said on Tuesday in an interview with Foster’s Daily Democrat. According to Gregg, the U.S.
Seven insurance companies that stopped selling Medicare Advantage products in June following complaints about deceptive marketing have been cleared to sell the insurance products again.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. plans.
McLEAN, Va. to help the agency modernize its services, improve health care quality and reduce costs.
Former American Medical Association President William Plested on Tuesday said physicians are relying on baby boomers to protest to lawmakers about proposed Medicare physician reimbursement cuts, the Seattle Times reports. A scheduled 10% physician reimbursement rate cut will take effect Jan. 1, 2008, and other proposed cuts would reduce physician payments by 40% by 2015, [...]
One thing that might not be in your retirement plans: an annual cashectomy. If you don’t plan carefully for your future health care costs, your retirement dreams could end up in the emergency room.
AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said that an agreement reached between the Government and the AMA over the introduction of the new Medicare Easyclaim system will deliver significant benefits to patients.
Expressions of “deep concern and disappointment about reports that the pending SCHIP reauthorization will go forward without addressing several issues that are critical to access to care for Medicare beneficiaries” were sent today to Congressional leaders by the American College of Physicians. David C.
John Tory is proposing a radical change to Ontario medicare. The nub of this change is not, as the Conservative leader suggests, letting private clinics deliver publicly funded medicare services. That’s already an established fact.
Labor’s health spokeswoman Nicola Roxon has defended the Opposition’s decision to retain the Medicare safety net, saying its scrapping would unfairly penalise the people who need it.
Labor leader Kevin Rudd has defended his backflip on the Medicare safety net.
Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties accounted for half of the drug costs billed Nationwide for Medicare beneficiaries with HIV/AIDS in the last half of 2006, according to a government report released this week.