Washington - health insurance provider Aetna Inc. spent more than $575,000 in the first quarter to lobby on Medicare and pharmaceutical issues, according to a disclosure report.
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April 30, 2008 - Health and Human services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Tuesday that it is “simply unreasonable” to think Medicare can maintain its solvency without changes to the program and that if “we start now, the change can be made over time and with genuine fairness,” CQ HealthBeat reports.
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Many Medicare beneficiaries are still unaware of, or confused by, the Medicare prescription drug Improvement and modernization act. Otherwise known as the Part D prescription drug program, this act was implemented in 2003 to subsidize the cost of medications for the elderly and the disabled, and in 2006, the Medicare program started offering outpatient prescription drug benefits.
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Five years of cancer care for America’s elderly cost Medicare $21.1 billion, a figure that will swell as the baby boomer generation ages, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday.
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The cost of cancer care for elderly Medicare patients varies by tumor type, stage at diagnosis, phase of care, and survival, according to a new study published online April 29 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The 5-year cost is highest for patients with lung, colorectal, and prostate cancers.
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Recommendations on the new Medicare medical home demonstration project were submitted to the Centers for Medicare and medicaid services by the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee, commonly known as the RUC.
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BETHESDA, MD – April 29, 2008 – The cost of cancer care for elderly Medicare patients is estimated at $21.1 billion for 5 years of care in 2004.
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A bipartisan group of eight House members on Monday discussed several health care issues — such as SCHIP, Medicare and medicaid — during a debate at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, The Hill reports.
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