William H. Stewart, who as U.S. surgeon general from 1965 to 1969 led the federal anti-smoking crusade, called for warning labels on cigarette advertising and used the introduction of Medicare to desegregate hospitals throughout the country, died April 23 of kidney failure at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. He was 86.
The Texas Health and Human services Commission has suggested that Webb County pay $1.7 million toward a proposed settlement between the state agency and the federal Centers for Medicare and medicaid services.The suggestion stems from the $9.2 million the HHSC paid to Laredo hospitals for indigent health care in 2007.
Sheridan Health & Rehab Center in Zion would like to recognize Laura Holmstrom for her excellent contribution to our facility. Holmstrom started at Sheridan Health & Rehab Center in October of 1995 as the Medicare coordinator and is currently the assistant administrator.
Dr. Stewart put the first health warnings on cigarette packs and integrated the United States Public Health Service and many Southern hospitals.
A woman at the center of a News Station Investigation is behind bars, in federal custody. Fox 4’s Becky Oliver has been investigating Irene Anderson and her home health care business for six months. While many in need have struggled to get help from the government, Anderson has collected millions of tax dollars from Medicare.
April 28, 2008 – Two U.S. Senators from different parties came together last Friday to compliment the Centers for Medicare and medicaid services for increasing the information available on their Website, Nursing Home Compare, but they say the agency has a ways to go to achieve the transparency and information for consumers called for in [...]
Ten of Pennsylvania’s 19 House members last week wrote a letter to the chairs of the Senate Finance and House Energy and Commerce committees expressing concern about potential cuts in the “indirect medical education” component of Medicare advantage plans to teaching hospitals, CQ HealthBeat reports.
Forget the Presidential election process. The real health care debate starts only after the new President is inaugurated next January. Or does it? Both sides are already gearing up. From the right, we see that Medicare advantage plans are becoming major…
In Letter to Senate Finance Committee, Taxpayers Union Says Extending Private coverage for Dialysis Patients from 30 to 60 Months is Key to Improving Care and Generating Taxpayer Savings
April 28 — Humana Inc. , the second-biggest provider of government-funded medical benefits, reported a 13 percent increase in first-quarter profit on enrollment gains in U.S. Medicare health plans for the elderly.
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt in an interview with the Washington Times said he is concerned that rising Medicare spending could “divide our nation along generational lines.”
medicaid beneficiaries and families searching for top quality long-term care services can find critical new information added to the Centers for Medicare & medicaid services‘ list.
The city of Duluth says it can save up to $600,000 a year if 37 of its retirees sign up for Medicare.
The percentage of seniors who said they skipped taking medications because of costs declined after the Medicare prescription drug benefit took effect in January 2006, but the sickest beneficiaries still skip prescriptions because they cannot afford to pay for them, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Reuters [...]
An article published in JAMA reports that after theimplementation of Medicare Part D, cost-related medication nonadherencemay have improved overall.In 2003 Congress passed the Medicare prescription drug Improvement andmodernization act to help the millions of elderly and disabledAmericans who had insufficient or no insurance coverage for outpatientmedications.