Jan. 29, 2008 – Whenever a President gives the State of the Union address, senior citizens listen carefully for what may be proposed regarding the lifelines for many – Social Security, Medicare and medicaid.
Updated information and new report, Kaiser Family Foundation: The Kaiser Family Foundation has updated its interactive online resource, the Medicare Health and prescription drug Plan Tracker, with new 2008 data that provide local, regional and national information about Medicare advantage plans, including HMOs, regional and local PPOs, private fee-for-service plans and special needs plans.
ARLINGTON, Va. of American voters say they would vote for Congressional candidates who would strengthen Medicare coverage for power wheelchairs, oxygen devices, hospital beds, and other durable medical equipment and services used in the home.
If everything looks ok, type in the verificatin work in the box below and submit. Bangalore: IVEN Medicare, the healthcare arm of ICICI Venture has invested $24 million in Mysore-based Vikram Hospital.
Hospital groups have launched a campaign against expanding a pilot program to audit Medicare claims, saying that it is “riddled with flaws” and that contingency fees provided to auditors encourages them to be too aggressive, the Wall Street Journal reports. The program — which was launched in California, Florida and New York and is to [...]
A $1.3 million federal grant will help connect Evansville with a growing network of health care providers that share patient information online. The grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human services Centers for Medicare and medicaid services will be used over two years to connect Evansville with the nonprofit Indiana Health Information Exchange, [...]
The Centers for Medicare & medicaid services suppliers. The proposed rule is intended to increase protections for Medicare and its beneficiaries from potentially dishonest or low quality suppliers.
The rate of Americans 65 and older diagnosed with diabetes climbed 23 percent in a decade, threatening to overwhelm the health-care system, according to a Duke University study of Medicare data.
The clinical trials used by Medicare for making decisions about coverage for cardiovascular products or services include participants who differ from Medicare beneficiaries in age, sex and country of residence, according to a report in the January 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The Centers for Medicare and medicaid services are moving forward with their plans to conduct a competitive bidding project for diagnostic laboratory services, making the IVD industry none too happy.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Medical Review Criteria guidelines for Managing Care, 6th edition. 2007 to their offering.
Senate Budget Committee Chair Kent Conrad.
Royal Medical Consultants, Inc., proudly announces the availability of Medicare Set-Aside Allocation services to insurance carriers, law firms, self insurers, and third party administrators, Nationwide, in compliance with the Medicare secondary payer Statute. Royal has successfully provided quality medical consulting services for the insurance and legal industry for the past twelve years….
For a second consecutive year, UPMC Health Plan has earned an “Excellent” rating from the National Committee for Quality Assurance for its Medicare product, UPMC for Life.