TUESDAY, Aug. 19 — A majority of seniors who visit the Medicare Web site find getting the information they need a frustrating experience, University of Miami researchers report.
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Branding it a new civil rights movement, U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Detroit, and a group of local health care providers and advocates pushed to transform the nation’s tiered health care system into a single-payer, “Medicare for all” system during a discussion at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine on Monday.
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CMO, the Care Management Company — a subsidiary of Montefiore, a health-care system that serves over 400,000 individuals in the Bronx, New York — has chosen Health Hero Network as a provider of home telehealth technology services for CMO’s care- and disease-management programs, including its CareGuidance Medicare demonstration. Health Hero Network is a subsidiary of the Bosch Group, a…
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Aug. 18, 2008 - Medicare could possibly save the lives of many senior citizens and save the government some money in health care costs by providing nicotine patches and a telephone hotline to seniors who want to quit smoking.
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MINNEAPOLIS—-Ninety-two percent of hospital Health Information Management directors are familiar with the Centers for Medicare and medicaid services Recovery audit Contractor program, but few expect it to have a positive financial effect on their facility, according to an independent national survey completed last month on behalf of Wolters Kluwer Health.
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As Medicare’s Part D prescription drug program enters its fourth year, beneficiary satisfaction rates remain high, program costs remain lower than originally expected, and Medicare prescription drug plan bids reflect Nationwide drug price trends, the Centers for Medicare & medicaid services announced.
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Acting CMS Administrator Kerry Weems on Thursday said that average Medicare prescription drug benefit premiums would be $28 per month in 2009, an increase of 12% over this year’s monthly premium, CQ HealthBeat reports. The increase equals $3 per month. Federal analysts in 2003 estimated that average monthly premiums in 2009 would be $44.12.
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New research suggests that Medicare could help seniors stop smoking by providing nicotine patches and a telephone hotline to those who want to quit. Older people can benefit from quitting, even if they have smoked for decades.
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